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Candelario slams 10th-inning bomb as Tigers hang on for 6-5 win against Red Sox

Boston — For a minute there, it felt like a 2013, Big Papi flashback.

The Tigers were up 3-1 with two outs in the seventh inning. Right-hander Bryan Garcia was summoned from the bullpen to face former Tiger J.D. Martinez with a man on. Martinez got a 94-mph elevated sinker on a 2-2 pitch that hovered over the middle of the plate and drove it into the Red Sox bullpen — just like David Ortiz did in the 2013 ALCS.

Victor Reyes valiantly leaped over the short wall, like Torii Hunter did — though he didn't flip head over heels into the bullpen.