Colt Keith worked between his two hits, Brever Hiclene defeated Colorado Rockies 11–1 in Denver on Thursday to sweep his first two Major League Hits and Detroit Tigers.
Cyder Montero played eight strong innings, Spencer Torkelson made three hits, and Kerry Carpenter and Trey Sweeny made two hit episi to help Detroit in their fourth direct victory.
Tigers started 7-3 on their 10-game, three-city road trip, which was the longest of the season. Detroit won the opener 10–2.
Montero added five hits to the Rockeys, allowing just one run for his second win over Rockies. Montero (1–1) threw a shutout against him at sept, 10, 2024 for his only full game.
Mickey Monic had two hits for Colorado, which have lost six in a row and fell by 6-31, the worst record in Major.
Tanner Gordon called to start a second game, allowing Colorado to seven runs on 10 hits in 6 1/3 innings in his first beginning of the season.
The Rockies took a 1-0 lead in the second innings on Owen Miller’s groundout, but Detroit responded in the third against Gordon (0–1).
Dillon Dingler, Sweeni and Hiclene led a single to load the targets against Gordon. Carpenter hit a grounder third, which passed through Ryan McMahon’s glove, allowing a run to score a run.
Gliber Torace made it 4–1 with three runs double in the right-center field gap. Gordon retired the next two batsmen, but Torkalson doubled home torres and scored on Jess Jung’s single.
Colorado threatened the bottom of the innings when it loaded the hideouts with one out of the innings. But Michael Toglia topped a ball in front of the house, Dingler picked it up, stepped on the plate and first thrown for an inning-ending double play.
Keith hit a two-run homer from the Tyler Kinle in the seventh and Justin-Henry Maloy doubled a pinch of, three-rins in the eighth for Detroit.
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