Tigers get 10th-inning homers from Sweeney and Greene and extend

CLEVELAND (AP)– Trey Sweeney and Riley Greene homered during a six-run 10th inning on Sunday as the Detroit Tigers beat Cleveland 7-2, extending the Guardians’ losing streak to 10 games.Javier Báez had 2 hits and Tarik Skubal struck out 10 as the AL-best Tigers swept the three-game series.Advertisement Cleveland was one strike away from ending its skid when closer

Emmanuel Clase tossed a wild pitch, enabling pinch-runner Zach McKinstry to score the tying run with 2 outs in the ninth.The Guardians’double-digit streak is the 11th in group history and the very first since

Cleveland dropped 11 in a row in 2012. The franchise record is 12 in 1931. Cleveland’s Steven Kwan had three hits, including an RBI double in the eighth.Báez singled leading off the 10th with automated runner Parker Meadows aboard and Sweeney followed with a three-run drive down the left-field line off Cade Smith (2-3)for a 4-1 lead.Advertisement Skubal– the ruling AL Cy Young winner and possible starter in next week’s All-Star Video game– enabled three hits in seven innings.

It was his sixth

double-digit strikeout game of the season and 13th of his career.Chase Lee(4-0 )pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings.Cleveland’s Gavin Williams allowed one hit in 6 innings and started out eight.Key moment The Tigers padded their lead in the 10th on Matt Vierling’s RBI double

and Greene’s two-run homer, his 22nd.

Key stat Greene is the 15th Detroit player to hit a minimum of 22 homers before the All-Star break.

The last was J.D. Martinez, who had 25 in 2015. Advertisement Up next Tigers: Have not named a starter for Monday’s series opener against going to Tampa

Bay.Guardians: Open a six-game journey at Houston on Monday. RHP Tanner Bibee (4-9, 4.20 ERA) takes on Astros RHP Hunter Brown(9-3, 1.82 ).

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