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- Updated: June 1, 2016
ANAHEIM — Nine combined home runs, including a walk-off blast from C.J. Cron, headlined the night as the Angels outslugged the Tigers, 11-9, on Tuesday to clinch a series victory.
Cron also homered in the first, his two-run shot igniting the Angels to a 9-2 lead after four innings, and he ended the Tigers’ bid for a comeback with his first career walk-off shot in the ninth, a two-run shot off Tigers reliever Mark Lowe that secured the club’s third win in its last five games.
The Tigers erased that seven-run deficit with their own long-ball assault. After J.D. Martinez got the offense turning again with a two-run homer in the sixth inning, Ian Kinsler’s grand slam to left off Angels reliever Cam Bedrosian in the seventh made it 9-8. One inning later, Victor Martinez tied the game with a solo shot, Detroit’s fifth homer of the game.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDCron is clutch: After seeing a 9-2 lead evaporate over the sixth, seventh and eighth innings, Cron gave the Angels something to cheer about. He took a slider from Lowe and sent it into the bullpen in left, giving him the fourth multi-homer game of his career.
Miggy rocks: Miguel Cabrera stepped to the plate on Tuesday with only one hit through four games on the Tigers’ West Coast trip, but he took care of that with one extended-arm swing …
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