(Photo: Gene J. Puskar, Associated Press)
Pittsburgh — This was not an aesthetically-pleasing baseball game, by any stretch. And the Tigers could not care less.
With a lot of help from the home team, the Tigers scratched across a run in the top of the eighth inning and snapped their four-game losing streak with a 5-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates Tuesday night.
The Tigers, who had squandered a 4-1 lead, took advantage of a walk, hit batsman and a botched double-play ball to score the go-ahead run.
With the bases loaded and one out, Pirates reliever Kyle Crick got Brandon Dixon to hit a ground ball to second baseman Adam Frazier.