Tigers Complete Sweep of Boston Red Sox

By Matt Harding

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It was a sunny Sunday at the ballpark as the Tigers looked to sweep the Boston Red Sox in the first series of the 2012 season.

The Tigers posted an early lead, scoring four runs in the first. The Red Sox scored

two runs of their own in the second inning off the bat of Mike Aviles. The Tigers tacked on another in the second, making the score 5-2.

Then, in the third, all of the screws came loose. Starter Max Scherzer couldn't throw strikes, and gave up hit after hit. The Sox scored five runs, and now led 7-5.

Fast-forwarding to the bottom of the fourth, the Tigers tied the game at sev

en apiece with a hit from Brennan Boesch and a fielder's choice from Miguel Cabrera.

After a quiet fifth inning, Adrian Gonzalez hit a mammoth home run to deep right field. The dinger was given up by Daniel Schlereth on his first pitch of the game.

Scoring remained halted until the ninth. The BoSox tacked on another, making the score 10-7. But, in the bottom of the inning, Cabrera blasted a no-doubter to left field, tying the game and leading us into extra innings.

Cabrera comes around third after tying

the game, leading the Tigers to extra innings.

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After a scoreless tenth, Boston put up two well-manufactured runs in the eleventh. Delmon Young cut the lead to one after a sacrifice fly.

And finally -- after almost five hours of baseball -- Alex Avila walked to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the 11th and delivered a home run to right field that just barely sailed over the yellow line to make it 13-12 Tigers.

Peralta and Fielder await the game's hero, Alex Avila.

Photo by Matt Harding / In Play! Magazine

The Tigers complete the sweep in fine fashion; it's already their second walk-off win of the season.

They go on to face the Tampa Bay Rays in a three game series beginning on Tuesday. They continue with a weekend set in Chicago against the White Sox.

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