Tigers Win in 10 Innings to Complete Sweep Placido Polanco's sacrifice fly in the 10th inning drove in the winning run in the Detroit Tigers' 4-3 victory against the visiting Cleveland Indians.
Adrian Gonzalez, who swatted a bases-empty home run off Colon in the fourth inning, drove in Ellsbury with a sacrifice fly.
He had a two-run single in the fourth inning, drove in two more with a double in the fifth and had a sacrifice fly in the second.
Marcus Thames's sacrifice fly drove in pinch-runner Michael Hollimon in the top of the inning and the Tigers stopped a two-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory against the Mariners.
The Yankees trailed, 5-0, wHughesghes was taken out, but a collaboration of efforts — three scoreless innings by Bartolo Colon, an intrepid block of the plate by Joba Chamberlain to thwart a run in the eighth, a game-tying homer in the ninth by Jorge Posada — culminated in the 10th, when Nick Swisher's sacrifice fly drove in Mark Teixeira with the winning run.
Erick Aybar (fielder's-choice grounder), Chris Nelson (single) and J.B. Shuck (sacrifice fly) drove in runs in the eighth, and Chris Iannetta walked three times and scored twice.
TWINS 7, INDIANS 5 Tsuyoshi Nishioka's sacrifice fly drove in the go-ahead run in the ninth inning and Minnesota sent host Cleveland to its 11th straight loss.
Morgan Phillips' sacrifice fly drove in Ryan Welke with the tiebreaking run in the fourth inning and College of Charleston beat Long Beach State, 4-2, on Monday to win a regional in Gainesville, Fla.
The Yankees tied the score in the fourth when Robinson Cano's sacrifice fly drove in Granderson, but they could have had more.
When B.J. Upton's sacrifice fly drove in pinch-runner Fernando Perez, the Rays prevailed, 9-8, in 11 innings in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series.
