The ball was jumping off bats all afternoon at Comerica Park, but in the end the Atlanta Braves hit four home runs to the Tigers’ three, and that was the difference. A shaky outing from Michael Lorenzen didn’t help matters as the Braves took game two to sweep Wednesday’s doubleheader.
Things didn’t get off to a very promising start. Michael Lorenzen walked Ronald Acuña Jr. to start the game and Matt Olson followed with a single that moved Acuña to third. Lorenzen got a little pop up into shallow right field off the bat of Austin Riley, and Zack Short hauled it in, but the angle he was running prevented a strong throw home and the speedy Acuña tagged and scored.