The back-and-forth contest featured yet another home run from A's first baseman Yonder Alonso, a two-run shot off Tigers lefty Daniel Norris that extended Oakland's lead to 4-1 in the fourth. It was his third in two days and ninth overall to tie his career high. But Alonso was also responsible for a fielding error in the fifth that paved the way for three unearned runs opposite A's starter Sonny Gray, allowing Detroit to tie the game.
Trevor Plouffe temporarily put the A's ahead again in the bottom half of the fifth with an RBI single, before the Tigers responded with two runs in the seventh, courtesy of McCann's homer off A's reliever Ryan Dull.