DETROIT — They were booing Javier Báez when he took a called third strike in the first inning. They booed louder when he chased a pitch way outside the zone for another strikeout in the fifth.
But they were on their feet cheering wildly in the eighth inning after Báez won an incredible 12-pitch battle with reliever John Brebbia. His line-drive double to the wall in left field plated two runs in a three-run rally that tied the score 6-6.
And the crowd of 18,344, those who stayed, were rewarded with bonus baseball for the second straight day — and a second straight 11th-inning walk-off winner.
