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 After Phil Coke (2-2) struck out Brian McCann with runners on the
corners to end the top of the ninth, Victor Martinez led off the
bottom half with a line-drive double into the right-field corner
against Shawn Kelley (2-5). J.D. Martinez walked before Kelley
recorded a pair of strikeouts, but Avila lined a shot to the fence
in right to plate pinch runner Bryan Holaday with the decisive run.
Avila added a sacrifice fly and Rajai Davis had an RBI single for
the Tigers, who pulled into a tie with Seattle for the second wild
card in the American League and to within 1 1/2 games of first-place
Kansas City in the AL Central. Kyle Lobstein allowed one earned run
in six frames and Coke finished three scoreless innings for the
Detroit bullpen, dropping New York three games behind the second
wild card.
 The Tigers struck first on Avila's sacrifice fly in the second but
the Yankees answered in the third when Zelous Wheeler reached second
on an infield single and a throwing error before Jacoby Ellsbury
knocked him in with a base hit to center. Martin Prado singled to
begin the fourth, moved to third on Carlos Beltran's double and came
home on Brian McCann's grounder to second to put New York up 2-1.
A walk and a wild pitch put a runner in scoring position in the
fifth for Davis, who laced a hit to right to tie it 2-2. Dellin
Betances struck out Miguel Cabrera with a runner in scoring position
to finish the eighth before Joba Chamberlain and Coke got the Tigers
through the ninth and on their way to their fourth win in five
games.
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GAME NOTEBOOK: Yankees RHP Masahiro Tanaka (elbow) took a step forward in
his rehab with a 49-pitch simulated game Thursday. Manager Joe Girardi
said that Tanaka may need at least two more such sessions before being
activated. ... New York RH Hiroki Kuroda yielded two runs and four hits
with four strikeouts in seven innings. ... The Yankees will kick off a
three-game weekend series in Toronto while Detroit begins a four-game
set in Chicago against the White Sox on Friday, featuring a doubleheader
Saturday.
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