Detroit, MI- Doug Griffin hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning, erasing a 3-2 deficit, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Tigers, 5-4, to edge one step closer to clinching the AL East title.
With the victory, the Red Sox need to win just one of the final two games of the series (and season) to clinch the division. Meanwhile, the Tigers have no more margin for error; they need to sweep the next two games to claim the East.
The Tigers had moved ahead. 3-2, in the seventh inning on an Eddie Brinkman squeeze bunt that plated Aurelio Rodriguez. But Griffin, not a power hitter, drilled a Mickey Lolich fastball over the wall in left center field with two men on base for a 5-3 Red Sox lead.
Rodriguez hit a solo homer in the ninth, but it was too little, too late.
BOS 88-65 --
DET 87-67 1.5
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