DETROIT (AP) — Gio Urshela hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning after the Detroit Tigers overcame a 9-4 deficit in the ninth to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 11-9 on Saturday.
Wenceel Perez bunted Ryan Vilade to third to start the 10th. The Dodgers played a five-man infield, but Urshela ruined the strategy by homering to left off Yohan Ramirez (0-4).
Shohei Ohtani hit his 200th homer and tripled, giving him 233 total bases — the eighth-highest total before the All-Star break since the game was first played in 1933.
Ricky Vanasco started the ninth for the Dodgers, but didn’t retire any of the three batters he faced. It was 9-6 when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts brought in closer Evan Phillips.
Phillips retired the first two batters, but Carson Kelly hit an RBI single to make it 9-7 and Colt Keith tied the game with a homer to left.
Will Vest (2-3) got Freddie Freeman to hit into a bases-loaded double play to end the top of the 10th.
The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead when Ohtani led off the game with a triple and scored when Freeman grounded into a force at second.
Detroit got two runs in the second, with Kiké Hernández’s error helping set up Keith’s two-run double, but the Dodgers tied it in the third. They loaded the bases on a walk and two singles. Montero struck out Andy Pages for the second out but walked Chris Taylor to make it 2-2.
The inning could have gotten much worse for Detroit, as right fielder Vilade lost Gavin Lux’s flyball in the sun, but he recovered to make a lunging catch.
Ohtani led off the fifth with a long homer to right and Lux made it 5-2 with a two-run single later in the inning.
Vilade and Andy Ibáñez led off the bottom of the inning with back-to-back homers. Vilade’s was the first of his major-league career.
Cavan Biggio walked in the sixth, took third on an Austin Barnes single and scored the sixth Dodgers run when Ohtani grounded into a force at second.
Hernández made it 8-4 with a two-run homer in the seventh. Freeman’s sacrifice fly scored Ohtani to make it 9-4 in the eighth.
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The Tigers and Dodgers finish the three-game series on Sunday afternoon, with both teams expected to get nine innings out of their bullpens.
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