DETROIT — They don't stop. They don't always win, but they don't stop.

The Tigers, who came into the game Wednesday with six come-from-behind wins (out of nine), fought out of a 4-1 deficit to take a tie game into the ninth.

In the end, though, they couldn't overcome three errors. The Texas Rangers, with a pinch-hit RBI double in the top of the ninth by Josh Smith, beat the Tigers, 5-4, at Comerica Park.

With one out against reliever Shelby Miller, Ezequiel Duran lined a ball off the glove of diving first baseman Spencer Torkelson. Next hitter, Evan Carter, hit a routine ground ball at the bag at first that Torkelson misplayed. Smith followed with a gap double to right-center.

Kerry Carpenter started the Tigers' scoring in the third, launching a 424-foot homer to right-center to tie the game 1-1 against Rangers starter Dane Dunning.

Then, down 4-1, they scored single runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth to draw even.

Torkelson chased Dunning with double to lead off the sixth inning and scored on an errant, two-out throw by shortstop Corey Seager. In the seventh, Parker Meadows, in an 0-for-18 skid and just 2 for 38 on the season, blasted a his first home run of the season, 399-feet to right-center off right-handed reliever Austin Pruitt.

In the eighth, against veteran David Robertson, Javier Báez came through with a two-out single to score Matt Vierling from second. Vierling reached on a one-out single.

In the innings between the first and sixth, Tigers' lefty starter Tarik Skubal was dominant.

In the first and sixth, though, things got messy. The Texas Rangers took advantage of an error in each inning and scored all their runs.

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