DETROIT — Their five-game winning streak fractured by New Jersey product Rick Porcello Tuesday night, the Yankees' face David Price Wednesday evening attempting to avoid losing two in a row at a juncture of the season when that could be lethal.
Twenty runs in the previous three games had some believing the Yankees were out of their season-long hitting funk, but Porcello, a Morris County, N.J., native and Seton Hall Prep graduate, handcuffed every Yankee but Jacoby Ellsbury on the way to a 5-2 victory that was witnessed by a Comerica Park crowd of 40,488 that had to wait one hour and eight minutes for the game to start because of rain.
Porcello improved to 15-8 and joined teammate Max Scherzer with the most wins among AL pitchers. He had lost three of his previous four decisions, but was coming off a complete-game shutout of the Rays on Aug. 20. In eight innings Porcello allowed two runs and nine hits.
Joe Nathan recorded the final three outs for his 28th save.
Ellsbury homered twice and singled against Porcello. Ellsbury has three homers in the last two games.
In his ninth start as a Yankee Brendan McCarthy absorbed the loss and is 5-3 in the AL and 8-13 between the Yankees and Diamondbacks. McCarthy gave up five runs, nine hits, walked two and whiffed five in 6 ¹/₃ innings.
Coupled with the AL East-leading Orioles beating the Rays the loss dropped the second-place Yankees seven games behind the Birds.
The Yankees opened Tuesday 2 ½ games behind Seattle in the second wild-card chase and were waiting for the outcome of the Mariners-Rangers game. The Tigers were in between the Mariners and Yankees, one-half game behind Seattle.
Locked in a 2-1 match against Porcello, McCarthy gave up two runs in the sixth that put the Yankees in a three-run ditch.
Victor Martinez opened with a single to right and made third when J.D. Martinez, the next batter, doubled to left. Nick Castellanos' single scored Victor Martinez and J.D. Martinez came home when Alex Avilla grounded into a 4-6-3 double play.
Torii Hunter's RBI single in the seventh upped the Tigers' lead to 5-1 and was the end of McCarthy's night. Esmil Rogers replaced McCarthy and fanned Miguel Cabrera for the second out and ended the inning by getting Victor Martinez on a fly to right.
Jacoby Ellsbury's 12th homer of the season and second in as many games cut the Tigers' lead to 2-1 in the fifth with two outs. Ellsbury sent Porcello's first pitch several rows in the right-field seats.
Delayed for more than an hour at the start due to rain the crowd immediately got into it during the first inning when Michigan native Derek Jeter came to bat. That resulted in an elongated standing ovation for the designated hitter who drove an opposite-field single to right. However, it didn't turn into a scoring chance because Brian McCann banged into a 4-6-3 double play.
After Porcello retired the Yankees in order in the second back-to-back two-out singles by Ichiro Suzuki and Ellsbury presented the visitors with a chance to score but it was negated by Jeter getting called out on a 2-2 pitch at the knees.
Singles by McCann leading off and Carlos Beltran with one out in the fourth didn't lead to a run because Martin Prado forced Beltran at second with a grounder to the right side and Stephen Drew hit a lazy fly ball to left that stranded two.
Had McCarthy not fed Ian Kinsler a ground ball double play to end the second the Tigers likely would have scored more than one run. After McCarthy walked Rajai Davis, the No. 9 hitter, with the bases loaded to force J.D. Martinez home with the game's first run pitching coach Larry Rothschild visited the mound and the conversation preceded Kinsler hitting a grounder to Chase Headley. He stepped on third and watched Mark Teixeira scoop a low throw out of the dirt to keep it at one run.
Cabrera's one-out double in the third turned into a run when J.D. Martinez' singled to left with two outs for a 2-0 lead.
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