DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera’s walk-off single in the 11th inning was the last push for the Detroit Tigers, who rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the San Francisco Giants 7-6 on Saturday.

Taylor Rogers (0-2) started the 11th with a wild pitch, which moved Spencer Torkelson to third. Cabrera’s bouncer up the middle was his 3,095th career hit and scored Torkelson.

Chasen Shreve (1-1) got the win, with five Detroit relievers combineing to pitch seven shutout innings.

The Tigers trailed 6-1 after three innings and were still down 6-3 in the eighth, but Nick Maton singled off John Brebbia and Riley Greene walked. Javier Báez fouled off six two-strike pitches before hitting a two-run double to make it 6-5 and brought Sean Hjelle out of the Giants bullpen.

Kerry Carpenter’s deep fly to right moved Baez to third, and Torkelson’s flare over the drawn-in infield tied the game.

The Giants’ J.D. Davis has six RBIs in the first two games of the weekend series despite playing with a painful knee abrasion. Starter Anthony DeScalfani allowed three runs, two of them earned, on six hits in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out five and didn’t walk a batter.

Michael Lorenzen made his first start as a Tiger after a spring hamstring injury, and allowed six runs on eight hits in four innings.

The Giants took a 6-1 lead with two runs in each of the first three innings. Davis had an RBI single in the first and Matt Beaty followed with a run-scoring groundout. Blake Sabol made it 4-0 with a two-run homer in the second before Detroit’s Kerry Carpenter hit a solo home run in the bottom of the second.

Mike Yastrzemski led off the third inning with a single and scored on Davis’ second homer in two days.

DeScalfani should have been out of the sixth with a 6-2 lead, but back-to-back errors by Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford allowed the Tigers to get a third run.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Giants: Placed OF Joc Pederson (wrist) on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to April 12, and recalled IF/OF Matt Beaty from Triple-A Sacramento. … Michael Conforto (calf) didn’t start but entered the game in the 10th inning as a pinch-hitter.

Tigers: Refreshed their bullpen after Friday’s 11-inning game. RHP Garrett Hill and INF Ryan Kreidler were optioned to Triple-A Toledo in favor of LHP Tyler Holton and Lorenzen.

RARE SIGHT

Crawford hadn’t made errors on consecutive hitters since he had back-to-back throwing errors twice during the 2014 season. Saturday’s errors were both misplayed grounders.

UP NEXT

The teams finish their weekend series on Sunday, with Detroit Tigers own Matthew Boyd (0-1, 4.00) facing Logan Webb (0-3, 6.35).

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Author: Dave Hogg, The Associated Press

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