Detroit: Alex Avila, solo home run in the bottom of the fifth inning.Īvila, who has struggled this season with injuries, flashed his sweet compact swing by flipping the ball the other way over the fence in left-centre field for a 3-1 Detroit lead.ģ.
Infante scored on the error when Parker slipped on the grass while picking up the ball. Parker got his glove on it, but pushed it into foul territory beyond first base. With two out and Omar Infante on second after a one-out double, Berry hit a dribbler between the mound and first base. But in this case, the pitcher made the defensive error, so it’s on A’s starter Jarrod Parker.
The drawback of win expectancy and individual players’ win probability added is that pitchers get all the blame for negative swings and the defence escapes unscathed. Detroit: Quintin Berry, infield single in the bottom of the third inning.
