Detroit Tigers defeat Rangers but Gleyber Torres leaves with injury
Second baseman Gleyber Torres left the Tigers’ 5-1 win over the Texas Rangers Saturday night in the fourth inning with tightness in his left side.
Detroit — Another game, another injury concern for the Tigers. Second baseman Gleyber Torres left the Tigers’ 5-1 win over the Texas Rangers Saturday night in the fourth inning with what the club reported as tightness in his left side. Before he departed, he helped build a 5-0 lead in front of 33, 373 chilly patrons at Comerica Park.
In the first inning, Torres was thrown out at the plate trying to score from second on a base hit by Riley Greene. He slid head first and tried to roll away from the tag. He stayed in the game and delivered an RBI single in the second inning.
But when the Tigers went out for the top of the fourth, it was Hao-Yu Lee playing second base while Torres was in the trainer’s room being evaluated. Torres was thrown out by right fielder Ezequiel Duran and it looked like it was going to kill an early scoring opportunity. Until Dillon Dingler stepped up.
With two on and two out, he fell behind 1-2. Rocker put a slider down in the zone but up enough for Dingler to drop the barrel on it. He launched it 443 feet inside the foul pole in left for his sixth homer of the year.