Jackson Holliday drove in three runs, Colton Cowser knocked in the winning run and the visiting Baltimore Orioles rallied from a seven-run deficit for a 10-9, 12-inning win, spoiling what may have been Tarik Skubal’s last start as a Detroit Tiger on Wednesday.
Cowser’s two-out single off Drew Sommers (0-2) drove home Taylor Ward after the teams each scored twice in the 11th.
Coby Mayo reached base four times and scored two runs while driving in two more. Ward added two RBIs.
Grant Wolfram (4-2) collected the win and Andrew Kittredge got the final out for his fourth save.
Skubal recorded his 1,000th career strikeout and shut the Orioles out through the first six innings. The subject of constant trade rumors all season, Skubal departed in the seventh with a six-run lead but the bullpen couldn’t hold it. He was charged with three runs and four hits with one walk and six strikeouts.
Yohel Pozo’s sacrifice fly and Holliday’s RBI single put Baltimore ahead 9-7 in the 11th. Spencer Torkelson then knotted the game again with a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning.
Javier Baez had two hits, two runs scored and two RBIs for Detroit. Matt Vierling had two hits and scored a run before exiting with a leg injury.
Baltimore starter Trevor Rogers gave up seven runs, four earned, in six innings with six strikeouts.
Skubal recorded his 1,000th strikeout against leadoff hitter Ward.
The Tigers scored three runs in the third inning and pushed the advantage to 5-0 in the fifth.
Baltimore’s defense allowed the Tigers to stretch the edge to seven runs in the sixth. Riley Greene and Eduardo Valencia reached on errors and scored on Zach McKinstry’s double down the right field line.
The Orioles got on the board against Skubal in the seventh on Leody Tavares’ two-out, run-scoring single up the middle. Kyle Finnegan then entered and walked Jeremiah Jackson to load the bases before giving up a two-run single to the pinch hitting Holliday. Ward bounced an opposite-field single to bring home two more runs.
Baltimore evened the score at 7 on Mayo’s two-run triple in the eighth against Drew Anderson.
