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Tigers' Riley Greene 1st MLB player to homer twice in 9th inning of a game

Riley Greene didn't want to dwell too much on becoming the first player in major league history to homer twice in the ninth inning of a game.

The Detroit Tigers' slugger hit a leadoff shot and then added a three-run drive later in the inning in a 9-1 victory over the hometown Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.

"Yeah, I just found that out, pretty cool," Greene said from Anaheim, Calif., after fuelling an eight-run, seven-hit outburst in the ninth. "But the game is over. We got to show up tomorrow and try to win another baseball game."

The score was tied 1-1 when Greene, facing closer Kenley Jansen, led off the ninth with a 371-foot homer off the top of the right-field wall.

Colt Keith followed with a homer to left-centre for a 2-1 lead, Jace Jung singled with one out, and Javier Baez hit a two-out, two-run shot to left for a 5-1 lead, giving Baez home runs in three straight games.

Detroit, an American League-best 21-12, wasn't through. Kerry Carpenter singled, Zach McKinstry doubled, knocking Jansen out of the game, and Carpenter scored on a wild pitch to make it 6-1.

Spencer Torkelson walked, giving Greene a shot at history, and the cleanup man seized the moment, crushing a 409-foot homer to right-centre off left-hander Jake Eder for a 9-1 lead.

Greene became the first Tigers player to hit two homers in an inning since Magglio Ordonez against the Oakland Athletics on Aug. 12, 2007. The only other Tigers player to homer twice in an inning was Hall-of-Famer Al Kaline, against the Kansas City A's on April 17, 1955.

"He's made an all-star team, he's been a featured player on our team, he hits in the middle of the order, he gets all the toughest matchups, and he asks for more," Detroit manager A.J. Hinch said of Greene, who

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