Detroit — This game was bananas.
“This team is fun to watch,” said catcher John Hicks, chuckling softly. “Nobody can deny that. What’d we hit, four home runs today? And everybody did their part.”
Eight runs were scored in the eighth and nine innings and the lead changed hands four times. But when the dust cleared, the Tigers had beaten the Orioles for the second straight game – this time 6-5 on a walk-off home run by Dixon Machado in the bottom of the ninth inning.
“Walking to the plate, I was thinking, ‘What if I hit a homer right here,’” said Machado, who had hit just one home run in his previous 328 big-league plate appearances.