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Leading up to the game, the Tigers made an announcement on relief pitcher Kyle Finnegan that reads like a promising sign heading into Monday night's game and the rest of the 2025 MLB season. The Astros lead the season series against Detroit 2-1 so far this season after falling to Detroit in the Wild Card round of the 2024 MLB Playoffs.
Dubon's homer snapped a streak of 31 straight scoreless innings by Astros hitters and a streak of 23 straight scoreless innings by Tigers pitching. And it was the only smudge against the Tigers' pitching staff.
The once-slipping Detroit Tigers extended their American League Central lead to 10 games after sweeping the Astros in three games at Comerica Park.
The Tigers and Astros have met in two wildly different games, despite the same coming out on top. After thumping the Astros 10-0 on Monday night, Detroit and Houston went into extras deadlocked at zero. However, several good at-bats by the Tigers in the 10th inning led to them scoring the game-winning run on a Gleyber Torres.
The Detroit Tigers were able to wrap up a sweep of the Houston Astros in a very impressive statement made by the team. Coming into the series, this was a match
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Closing out their series against the Tigers, the Astros leave Detroit with another series loss, making it their second series loss in a row, following yesterday's day game with the final score of 7-2.
The Tigers hammered Houston for six runs in the first inning to set up a 7-2 victory and a series sweep of the AL West leaders.
The Houston Astros have been shut out in back-to-back games, but they remain 1.5 games up on the Seattle Mariners in the AL West heading into their series final
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Gleyber Torres draws game-ending walk as Detroit Tigers beat Houston Astros 1-0 in 10 innings
Gleyber Torres drew a 10th-inning walk to send home Wenceel Pérez and give the Detroit Tigers a 1-0 win over Houston on Tuesday night, the Astros third consecutive shutout loss. Pérez started the 10th as the automatic runner on second base and took third on Andy Ibáñez's fly to deep right.
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Astros shut out again by Tigers, hit worst offensive drought in 40 years with extra-inning loss
For the first time since the 1985 season, the Astros have been shut out in three consecutive games after losing in 10 innings Tuesday.