Yankees rally to snap Tigers' four-game winning streak

Chris McCosky, The Detroit News on Jun 23, 2026

Published in Baseball

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DETROIT — No late heroics in this one.

The East Division-leading New York Yankees snapped the Detroit Tigers’ four-game win streak, hanging on for a 4-3 win at Comerica Park.

Yankees' right-hander David Bednar impressively got the final four outs, powering through Spencer Torkelson, Kerry Carpenter, Colt Keith and Zach McKinstry to close it out.

The line between exhilaration and exasperation is so thin sometimes.

Tigers’ starter Casey Mize was cruising along, protecting a 2-1 lead in the sixth inning. With one out, slugger Paul Goldschmidt topped a ball four feet up the third base line. Mize got to it quickly, but Goldschmidt beat it out for a single.

Next up was Jazz Chisholm, Jr., and it looked like Mize struck him out with a 1-2 four-seam fastball on the inside black. Home plate ump Alex MacKay called it a ball. Catcher Dillon Dingler challenged. It was a ball by a fraction.

Two pitches later, Mize left a slider up just enough for Chisholm to launch it into the seats in right-center.

The Yankees tacked on one more in the sixth on a double by Austin Wells off reliever Tyler Holton, leaving a four-run smudge on Mize’s ledger, despite another strong outing.

The Tigers fought back, as they do.

Dingler, who had three hits, and Matt Vierling whacked back-to-back doubles against lefty Carlos Rodon to start the bottom of the sixth to cut the Yankees’ lead to 4-3.

With one out, Yankees manager Aaron Boone went to his bullpen, bringing in right-hander Fernando Cruz.

That allowed Tigers’ manager AJ Hinch to activate his left-handed pinch-hitters. With two outs, Kerry Carpenter walked and Colt Keith got ahead 3-0 before grounding out to first base.

Exhilaration, exasperation.

Same thing in the bottom of the seventh. Ben Malgeri, making his big-league debut, had singled to right field on the first pitch he saw in the third inning. And with one out in the seventh, he lined another opposite-field single.

Rookie Kevin McGonigle followed with a sinking liner to right. Right-fielder Jasson Dominguez hesitated but made a shoestring catch and doubled Malgeri off first base.

The Tigers challenged the play, hoping that Dominguez trapped the ball. The replay was inconclusive and the initial out call stood.

For such a low-scoring game, there was plenty of action on the bases.

The Yankees put pressure on Mize early with two stolen bases in the first three innings. Mize, normally exceptional at holding runners, was able to work around both, stranding Jasson Dominguez, who stole third base in the first inning, and Anthony Volpe, who stole second in the third.

But that put Mize on high-alert and he might have been overzealous in holding Spencer Jones in the fourth.

With runners at first and third and one out, Mize threw over twice to keep Jones close. Those disengagements freed Jones to run. He did so on a ground ball to third base which, had Jones not been running on the pitch, might’ve been a double-play.

Instead, McGonigle got the sure out at first allowing the runner at third to score.

Volpe tried to swipe another base in the fifth inning. This time, Mize held him close and Dingler fired a dart right to the bag at second to nab him.

The Tigers were frisky early, too.

They scored twice off Rodon in the second on singles by Zach McKinstry (breaking an 0-for-17 skid against left-handed pitching) and Malgeri.

McKinstry scored on a wild pitch and Malgeri scored on a two-out single by Dingler. It was his MLB-best 34th two-out RBI.

The Tigers had a chance to score again in the fourth. Riley Greene, who walked and advanced to second on a ground out, was waved home by third base coach Joey Cora on a two-out single to medium left field by Hao-Yu Lee.

Left fielder Cody Bellinger had the ball as Greene was getting to third base. It was no contest at the plate.

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