Detroit Tigers 2 – 1 Los Angeles Angels

MLB · July 18, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Detroit Tigers took down the Los Angeles Angels tonight, two to one, in what turned out to be a game defined almost entirely by its final act. Los Angeles drew first blood in the opening frame when Neto came around to score on a Lowe groundout, and for eight innings that one run felt like it might be enough. The Angels were protecting it, Detroit was searching for an answer, and the game had that quiet tension of a pitchers' duel where one swing changes everything. That swing came in the ninth. Leon Lee laced a double to center field, and suddenly both Greene and Outman were crossing the plate. Two runs, one swing, game flipped. The Angels challenged the call on the field and the umpire review came back the same way — it stood, Detroit leads, and that was the ballgame. Zach Neto was the most consistent presence for Los Angeles, going two for four with a run scored, and Mike Trout collected a hit but the Angels simply could not push anything across when it mattered. For Detroit, Matt Vierling was their most reliable bat, going two for four, while Josh Outman never even had an official at-bat but scored the go-ahead run when it counted most. Detroit found a way in the ninth when everything was on the line, and that made all the difference. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

Lowe grounded out to second, Neto scored, Soler to second, Schanuel to third. P1 · 0–1
Lee doubled to center, Greene scored and Outman scored. Umpire review: call on the field was upheld. P9 · 2–1

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Reid Detmers pitches to Matt Vierling P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Vierling fouled out to right. P1

Reid Detmers pitches to Kevin McGonigle P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

McGonigle struck out swinging. P1

Reid Detmers pitches to Dillon Dingler P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1

Dingler singled to right. P1

Reid Detmers pitches to Spencer Torkelson P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Torkelson flied out to right. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Troy Melton pitches to Zach Neto P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1

Neto singled to center. P1

Troy Melton pitches to Mike Trout P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1

Trout lined out to center. P1

Troy Melton pitches to Nolan Schanuel P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P1

Schanuel walked, Neto to second. P1

Troy Melton pitches to Jorge Soler P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P1

Soler walked, Schanuel to second, Neto to third. P1

Troy Melton pitches to Josh Lowe P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1

Lowe grounded out to second, Neto scored, Soler to second, Schanuel to third. P1

Troy Melton pitches to Jo Adell P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Adell grounded out to second. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Reid Detmers pitches to Riley Greene P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P2

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2

Greene grounded out to second. P2

Reid Detmers pitches to Eduardo Valencia P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Valencia flied out to second. P2

Reid Detmers pitches to Hao-Yu Lee P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Lee struck out swinging. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Troy Melton pitches to Vaughn Grissom P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P2

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P2

Grissom walked. P2

Troy Melton pitches to Denzer Guzman P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Guzman struck out swinging. P2

Troy Melton pitches to Logan O'Hoppe P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P2

O'Hoppe struck out looking. P2

Troy Melton pitches to Zach Neto P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P2

Neto struck out looking. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Reid Detmers pitches to Ben Malgeri P3

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3

Malgeri grounded out to third. P3

Reid Detmers pitches to Zach McKinstry P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

McKinstry struck out swinging. P3

Reid Detmers pitches to Matt Vierling P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P3

Vierling singled to center. P3

Reid Detmers pitches to Kevin McGonigle P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3

McGonigle flied out to center. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Troy Melton pitches to Mike Trout P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Trout doubled to left. P3

Troy Melton pitches to Nolan Schanuel P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 4 P3

Schanuel walked. P3

Troy Melton pitches to Jorge Soler P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P3

Soler struck out looking. Los Angeles Angels challenged: call on the field was upheld. P3

Troy Melton pitches to Josh Lowe P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3

Lowe flied out to center. P3

Troy Melton pitches to Jo Adell P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Adell struck out swinging. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Reid Detmers pitches to Dillon Dingler P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Looking P4

Dingler struck out looking. P4

Reid Detmers pitches to Spencer Torkelson P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Torkelson struck out swinging. P4

Reid Detmers pitches to Riley Greene P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

Greene doubled to right. P4

Reid Detmers pitches to Eduardo Valencia P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Valencia struck out swinging. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Troy Melton pitches to Vaughn Grissom P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

Grissom singled to left. P4

Troy Melton pitches to Denzer Guzman P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P4

Guzman struck out looking. P4

Troy Melton pitches to Logan O'Hoppe P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

O'Hoppe grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Grissom out at second. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Reid Detmers pitches to Hao-Yu Lee P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5

Lee lined out to center. P5

Reid Detmers pitches to Ben Malgeri P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Malgeri doubled to right. P5

Reid Detmers pitches to Zach McKinstry P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

McKinstry struck out swinging. P5

Reid Detmers pitches to Matt Vierling P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

Vierling flied out to left. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Troy Melton pitches to Zach Neto P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P5

Neto reached on infield single to shortstop. P5

Troy Melton pitches to Mike Trout P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Trout struck out swinging. P5

Troy Melton pitches to Nolan Schanuel P5

Neto picked off and caught stealing second. P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P5

Schanuel grounded out to second. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Reid Detmers pitches to Kevin McGonigle P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

McGonigle grounded out to shortstop. P6

Reid Detmers pitches to Dillon Dingler P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Dingler lined out to center. P6

Reid Detmers pitches to Spencer Torkelson P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P6

Torkelson grounded out to pitcher. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Troy Melton pitches to Jorge Soler P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Soler struck out swinging. P6

Troy Melton pitches to Josh Lowe P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Lowe struck out swinging. P6

Montero relieved Melton P6

Keider Montero pitches to Jo Adell P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Adell struck out swinging. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Zeferjahn relieved Detmers P7

Ryan Zeferjahn pitches to Riley Greene P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Greene struck out swinging. P7

Carpenter hit for Valencia P7

Ryan Zeferjahn pitches to Kerry Carpenter P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

Carpenter grounded out to second. P7

Ryan Zeferjahn pitches to Hao-Yu Lee P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Lee struck out swinging. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Carpenter as designated hitter. P7

Keider Montero pitches to Vaughn Grissom P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

Grissom lined out to right. P7

Keider Montero pitches to Denzer Guzman P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Guzman struck out swinging. P7

Keider Montero pitches to Logan O'Hoppe P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

O'Hoppe grounded out to shortstop. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Peraza at second base. P8

Keith hit for Malgeri P8

Bachman relieved Zeferjahn P8

Sam Bachman pitches to Colt Keith P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Keith struck out swinging. P8

Sam Bachman pitches to Zach McKinstry P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

McKinstry struck out swinging. P8

Sam Bachman pitches to Matt Vierling P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Vierling singled to center. P8

Sam Bachman pitches to Kevin McGonigle P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P8

Vierling stole second. P8

Vierling stole second. Los Angeles Angels challenged: call on the field was upheld. P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

McGonigle struck out swinging. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

McGonigle at shortstop. P8

Keith at third base. P8

McKinstry in right field. P8

Keider Montero pitches to Zach Neto P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Neto struck out swinging. P8

Keider Montero pitches to Mike Trout P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Trout struck out swinging. P8

Keider Montero pitches to Nolan Schanuel P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P8

Schanuel struck out looking. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Siri in left field. P9

Yates relieved Bachman P9

Kirby Yates pitches to Dillon Dingler P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P9

Dingler hit by pitch. P9

Outman ran for Dingler P9

Kirby Yates pitches to Spencer Torkelson P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P9

Torkelson flied out to left. P9

Kirby Yates pitches to Riley Greene P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Outman stole second. P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P9

Greene walked. P9

Kirby Yates pitches to Kerry Carpenter P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Carpenter flied out to left. P9

Kirby Yates pitches to Hao-Yu Lee P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Lee doubled to center, Greene scored and Outman scored. Umpire review: call on the field was upheld. P9

Rogers hit for Keith P9

Natera Jr. relieved Yates P9

Samy Natera Jr. pitches to Jake Rogers P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Rogers flied out to center. P9

Middle of the 9th inning P9

Bottom of the 9th inning P9

Vierling in right field. P9

McGonigle at third base. P9

Outman in center field. P9

Rogers catching. P9

McKinstry at shortstop. P9

Keider Montero pitches to Jorge Soler P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Soler hit by pitch. P9

Meckler ran for Soler P9

Keider Montero pitches to Jose Siri P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Bunted Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P9

Siri singled to center, Meckler to second. P9

Keider Montero pitches to Jo Adell P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Adell popped out to second. P9

Keider Montero pitches to Oswald Peraza P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Peraza grounded out to third, Siri to second, Meckler to third. Umpire review: call on the field was upheld. P9

Keider Montero pitches to Denzer Guzman P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P9

Guzman grounded out to shortstop. P9

End of the 9th inning P9