NEW YORK -- The Tigers rolled into Yankee Stadium with talk of a postseason preview, and played six tight innings against the red-hot Yankees. Then came a nine-run seventh inning that looked like an exhibition of at-bats, sending Detroit to a 12-2 win Tuesday night to open a three-game series between potential World Series contenders.

When Kerry Carpenter tripled in two runs to put the Tigers in double digits, it completed the Detroit order batting around in the seventh without recording an out, something the club hadn’t done in an inning since July 19, 2021 against Texas. The Tigers scored eight runs without recording the first out of the inning, something they hadn’t done since June 1, 2013.

What made the inning incredible, beyond the raw numbers, was how those runs scored. Just four

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