Victor Reyes’ single scored the go-ahead run in the fifth, Tyler Alexander ended a personal four-game losing streak and the host Detroit Tigers topped the Los Angeles Angels 4–3 on Saturday.
Jonathan Schoop, Willi Castro and Jeimer Candelario drove in the other runs for Detroit, which had lost 10 of its previous 12 games.
Alexander (3–7) gave up three runs and seven hits in six innings. Alex Lange, Joe Jimenez and Gregory Soto each followed with an inning of scoreless relief, as Soto recorded his 23rd save.
Angels starter Reid Detmers (4–4) gave up all of the Tigers’ runs on 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Shohei Ohtani had two hits and scored a run for the Angels, Luis Rengifo contributed two hits and drove in a run and Andrew Velazquez added a solo homer….