Michael Wacha threw seven innings of two-run baseball and left with the score tied, which is the start where you have done enough and the bullpen has to finish what you built. Casey Mize matched him: six innings, three hits, one run, and a no-decision. The game turned on Nick Loftin's fifth home run of the year, a fly ball to left in the ninth off Jacob Waguespack, and Alex Lange needed sixteen pitches to close it. Hao-Yu Lee had doubled and homered for Detroit, and Salvador Perez had tied it in the seventh with his 15th. Three lead changes, and the last one belonged to the team that had traveled.