TORONTO -- The Tigers had pitched through low-scoring games all week looking for late-inning rallies from a struggling offense. Just when their hitting woes seemingly hit bottom Friday night, they found the rally from their eighth and ninth batters.On a night when Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez both went hitless with one ball hit out of the infield, Nick Castellanos and Eugenio Suarez powered a three-run ninth inning with back-to-back homers off Blue Jays closer Casey Janssen, with Suarez delivering a go-ahead shot to straightaway center for a 5-4 win at Rogers Centre. 
It marked the second win for the Tigers this week in their final at-bat and their second come-from-behind rally. Given everything they overcame Friday, they made Saturday's 12-inning win at Yankee Stadium almost look easy.For eight innings, the Blue Jays' three-run second inning looked like a tone-setter. They took the game to the Tigers and starter Anibal Sanchez early, including a run-scoring squeeze bunt for a 4-0 lead.Even after Ian Kinsler's two-run single in the third inning whittled Detroit's deficit to 4-2, the game seemed just as distant. Detroit went hitless from Kinsler's fifth-inning single until J.D. Martinez doubled to the fence in left-center field leading off the ninth. Though Blaine Hardy and Al Alburquerque kept the game at two runs with 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief after Sanchez left in the fifth with a right pectoral muscle strain, the Tigers struggled to get the tying run to the plate.Once Martinez's double started the rally, Castellanos came through, jumping on a first-pitch hanging curveball and sending it out to left for his eighth home run and a tie game.Two pitches later, Suarez -- back after missing the previous three games with a sore knee -- connected on a fastball on the outside corner and drilled it out to center.Jason Beck / MLB.com
It marked the second win for the Tigers this week in their final at-bat and their second come-from-behind rally. Given everything they overcame Friday, they made Saturday's 12-inning win at Yankee Stadium almost look easy.For eight innings, the Blue Jays' three-run second inning looked like a tone-setter. They took the game to the Tigers and starter Anibal Sanchez early, including a run-scoring squeeze bunt for a 4-0 lead.Even after Ian Kinsler's two-run single in the third inning whittled Detroit's deficit to 4-2, the game seemed just as distant. Detroit went hitless from Kinsler's fifth-inning single until J.D. Martinez doubled to the fence in left-center field leading off the ninth. Though Blaine Hardy and Al Alburquerque kept the game at two runs with 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief after Sanchez left in the fifth with a right pectoral muscle strain, the Tigers struggled to get the tying run to the plate.Once Martinez's double started the rally, Castellanos came through, jumping on a first-pitch hanging curveball and sending it out to left for his eighth home run and a tie game.Two pitches later, Suarez -- back after missing the previous three games with a sore knee -- connected on a fastball on the outside corner and drilled it out to center.Jason Beck / MLB.com
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