VERY BAD NEWS: Detroit Tigers Head Coach Angry and Announced resignation immediately today….
Carson Kelly slapped the ball back up the middle.
A ground-ball single into center field was exactly what the Detroit Tigers needed Saturday to score the free runner from second base.
The Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox, 7-6, in extra innings at Guaranteed Rate Field in the second game of the season, following a 1-0 win on Opening Day.
Kelly drove in the tying run with a single in the seventh inning and the winning run with a single in the 10th inning.
Right-hander Kenta Maeda, who signed a two-year, $24 million contract in the offseason, spoiled an early lead by giving up six runs across 3⅓ innings in his first start, but the Tigers (2-0) mounted a comeback with three unanswered runs before making it four unanswered in the 10th.
“I think that just shows the fight that this team has,” Kelly said.
“We want to play for bigger things. We want to go to the playoffs, and we want to go win.
To get there you got to win ballgames, and you’ve got to win these close games.”
Kelly hit a 95 mph fastball from right-handed reliever Deivi García.
Mark Canha, serving as the free extra-innings runner on second base, scored easily.
Kelly finished with three hits — all singles — in five at-bats.
