Detroit — If you can stay in the battle long enough, you are bound to start winning some.
Eric Haase is living proof of that. So are the Tigers.
After a few frustrating weeks of hitting line drives right at defenders and having his long fly balls settle into fielder's gloves on the track or at the wall, Haase broke out in a big way.
He hit his first home run of the season, delivered a clutch, go-ahead, two-run single in the bottom of the eighth and knocked in five runs as the Tigers beat the New York Mets, 6-5, at Comerica Park Wednesday afternoon in Game 1 of a doubleheader.