Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2
When: 7:10 PM ET, Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Fieldin Culbreth, 1B - Marty Foster, 2B - Gary Cederstrom, 3B - Ed Hickox
Attendance: 19843
Carlos Pena homered and Matt Joyce snapped a tie score with a two-out double in the sixth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays edged the Detroit Tigers 3-2 at St. Petersburg, Fla., Tuesday night.

A day after Matt Garza threw the first no-hitter in Tampa Bay history, it took the Tigers just two batters to get a hit as Will Rhymes singled. Detroit finished with 12 hits but left 11 men on base in the game.

Pena gave the Rays a 2-0 lead with his 22nd home run of the year in the first inning.

The Tigers tied the game when Ryan Rayburn singled to shortstop with the bases loaded in the sixth inning. Johnny Damon scored on the play and Miguel Cabrera scored on an error by shortstop Jason Bartlett.

Joyce’s double in the bottom of the sixth scored Carl Crawford, who had singled earlier in the inning, with the go-ahead run.

James Shields (9-9) got the win. Justin Verlander (12-6) took the loss. He threw a complete game allowing five hits and three runs while fanning six.

Rafael Soriano got out of a major jam in the ninth inning as Miguel Cabrera grounded into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded. It was Soriano’s 27th save of the season.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Detroit   Tampa Bay
Justin Verlander Player James Shields
Loss W/L Win
8.0 IP 6.2
6 Strikeouts 7
5 Hits 9
3.38 ERA 2.70
Hitting
Detroit   Tampa Bay
Miguel Cabrera Player Carlos Pena
2 Hits 1
0 RBI 2
0 HR 1
4 TB 4
.500 Avg .333
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Detroit 12 0 16 .324 24 11 1 3 0 0
Tampa Bay 5 1 9 .179 11 6 3 3 4 1