The Detroit Tigers sent 11 batters to the plate in the first inning.
They scored six runs.
The Tigers smoked the Seattle Mariners for a 9-6 win in Monday's opener of a three-game series at T-Mobile Park. Although the Mariners threatened, the Tigers kept them in check until Cal Raleigh's two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth.
But the Tigers (1-3) survived to secure their first win of the 2025 season, bouncing back from three straight losses to the reigning World Series champion Los Angles Dodgers in their opening series at Dodger Stadium.
In the first inning, all six runs scored by the Tigers were charged to Mariners right-hander Emerson Hancock, who recorded just two outs despite throwing 39 pitches.
The six runs were scored on seven hits and two walks.
The seven hits: Justyn-Henry Malloy (double), Kerry Carpenter (RBI single), Riley Greene (solo home run), Spencer Torkelson (single), Dillon Dingler (RBI single), Trey Sweeney (RBI single) and Javier Báez (two-RBI double). The two walks: Colt Keith on four pitches, and Malloy on five pitches.
Greene and Báez produced the biggest swings.
Greene battled for eight pitches before smacking Hancock's sinker the opposite way for a solo home run to left field, making it 2-0. Báez refused to chase before pulling a two-strike, two-out sweeper into left field, making it 6-0.
It was Greene's first homer in 2025.
Malloy, whom the Tigers called up from Triple-A Toledo to replace injured second baseman Gleyber Torres, finished 2-for-3 with one RBI, two walks and one strikeout, including a leadoff double to ignite the six-run first inning.
Everyone except Zach McKinstry from the nine starters in the lineup recorded at least one hit, with six of those players — Malloy, Carpenter, Torkelson, Dingler, Sweeney, Báez — delivering multi-hit performances.
Dingler, Sweeney and Báez had three hits apiece.
The Tigers finished with 18 hits and four walks, adding one run in the third inning, one run in the fourth and one run in the seventh.
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