Bottom 6th: Red Sox 1, Tigers 1
The Red Sox were cruising behind the arm of Chris Sale.
The ace recorded his first two outs of the inning on strikeouts of JaCoby Jones and Andrew Romine, respectively. Ian Kinsler stepped up to the plate without a hit, but launched a home run to left field, tying the score.
Nicholas Castellanos ended the inning with a strikeout. Sale struck out the side, but gave up the tying run.
Top 6th: Red Sox 1, Tigers 0
Justin Verlander needed some short at-bats to remain in the game for another inning, or two.