Bottom 8th: Tigers 5, Pirates 3
Mark Lowe came out for the eighth and walked the pinch-hitting Sean Rodriguez to leadoff the inning.
Lowe got John Jaso to groundout to first base, moving Rodriguez up to second. That's when Andrew McCutchen broke out of his 1-for-12 funk in this series, nearly missing a homer while settling for an RBI double off the top of the left field wall to cut the Tigers lead to 5-3.
Lowe got David Freese to ground into the second out, moving McCutchen up to third. No more harm came to Lowe, however, as he struck out Starling Marte looking with a pinpoint fastball on the outside to end the threat.