ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Riley Greene homered to open the top of the ninth inning and capped an eight-run outburst with a three-run shot to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 9-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.
With his three-run shot off left-hander Jake Eder, Greene became the first player in MLB history to hit two home runs in the ninth inning of a game.
He is the first Tigers player to homer twice in an inning since Magglio Ordonez against the Oakland Athletics on Aug. 12, 2007. The only other Tigers player to accomplish the feat was Al Kaline on April 17, 1955.
Greene joins the Angels' Jo Adell as the only players to hit multiple homers in a single inning this season. Adell did it on April 10 at Tampa Bay, in the fifth inning.
Colt Keith had a solo homer and Javier Bez hit a two-run shot in the inning against Angels closer Kenley Jansen, who opened the season with eight scoreless innings but was pitching for the first time in eight days.
Jansen (0-1) gave up six runs and six hits in the ninth, as the Angels lost their seventh straight and 15th in the last 19 games.
Tyler Holton (2-2) pitched a scoreless eighth inning to pick up the win.
Angels shortstop Zach Neto crushed Detroit left-hander Tarik Skubal's first pitch of the game for his fourth homer. The Tigers tied the score 1-1 in the seventh on Trey Sweeney's homer off reliever Ryan Johnson.
Angels starter Jose Soriano allowing six hits in six innings, striking out five and walking one.
Skubal, the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, allowed one run and four hits in six innings, striking out eight and walking one.
Tempers flared in the bottom of the third when Neto and Skubal exchanged words after the Tigers' ace blew a 99 mph fastball by Neto for strike three. Both benches emptied, but no punches were thrown.
ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
