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Back in startinglineup, Gonzalez drives in the winning run for Tigers FAN By JOHN LOWE HUE PRLSS SPORTS VYKITLk APPRECIATION Kow they scored EIGHTH INNINQ Detroit: Rhodes pitching. Halter walked. Mesa relieved Rhodes. Gonzalez doubled to right-center, Halter scored. Garcia ran tor Gonzalez.

Higginson singled to right, Garcia to third. Palmer hit sacrifice fly to center, Garcia scored. piWAL SCORE: Tigers 2, Mariners 0. NIGHT Prizes win be raffled off throughout the game including Pistons jerseys, shoes, basketballs, trips and much, much more! made it standing up. The Tigers won the first series at Comerica Park, two games to one.

Neither team homered in the series something that hadn't happened in a series of at least three games at Tiger Stadium since 1997. But the bundled-p crowd didn't seem to miss the power. They reveled in how a low-scoring game can have more thrills than a high-scoring one. Bobby Higginson, who threw out a runner at the plate in the sixth, singled to set up the second run in the eighth. Hideo Nomo and four relievers combined on a seven-hitter.

The highlights started in the first, when catcher Brad Ausmus threw out two runners attempting to steal. Then Seattle loaded the bases with none out in the sixth on two walks and a single. John Olerud hit a fly to short left. Mark McLemore tried to score, and Higginson threw a strike to Ausmus, who had time to set for McLemore's collision. Double play.

After a Nomo wild pitch put runners at second and third, second baseman Gregg Jefferies made an excellent play up the middle to get an Edgar Martinez grounder deflected by Nomo. Perhaps Martinez is the only player in the league who couldn't have beaten out the ball. But Jefferies still needed to make a nice play to throw him out. the designated hitter, received a nice ovation the first time he batted, leading up to the standing 0 after his hit. "On my first at-bat here, I felt a little anxious," Gonzalez said.

"It was exciting to see the fans react to me the way they did." "The fan reaction to Juan coming up to bat for the first time set the tone for the evening," Garner said. For a man who'd had one pinch-hit at-bat in nine days, and playing in 49-degree weather, Gonzalez gave a remarkable demonstration of why he's one of baseball's most feared batters and why general manager Randy Smith put six players in a blockbuster trade to Texas to get him. On his first at-bat, he ripped a single to left. His second time up, bidding for an RBI single, he lined out to left. He hit into a forceout in the fifth before delivering the hit in the eighth that Smith simply called "terrific." Perhaps the only more dramatic resolution would have been a homer.

And yet, the double was more appropriate to spacious Comerica Park. As the ball rolled up the distant gap, the crowd roared louder and louder for Halter to score, cheering him like a Triple Crown candidate coming down the stretch of the Belmont Stakes. Halter, who had drawn a five-pitch walk from Arthur Rhodes, The crowd at Comerica Park came to its feet to applaud defense. Then it came to its feet to applaud pitching. And then, at last, it came to its feet to applaud offense.

At last, it came to its feet to applaud Juan Gonazalez. Playing his first home game as a Tiger, Gonzalez greeted reliever Jose Mesa by ripping a double up the right-center gap in the eighth. The long blow scored Shane Halter from first, broke a scoreless tie and sent the Tigers to a 2-0 win Thursday night. "It's exciting because we won, and I drove in the winning run," Gonzalez said. "The team feels more confident when I'm in the lineup." Gonzalez hadn't started since Opening Day because of a tight right hamstring.

After Thursday's game, manager Phil Garner acknowledged that Gonzalez could have made a difference in three low-scoring games as the Tigers lost six of seven without him. Gonzalez, who was serving as Free team photo to the first 10,000 fans With one out in the eighth, Olerud singled and went to second on Martinez's single. Manager Phil Garner went to the mound to take out Doug Brocail. The righthander had taken Alex Rodriguez's line drive off the inside of his right wrist before catching it to start the eighth. But Brocail of the toughest guys I've convinced Garner to leave him in, and using only his fastball (Garner presumed he couldn't throw his slider), he got a fielder's choice grounder from pinch-hitter Stan Javier and struck out Raul Ibanez.

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