Riley Greene homered and drove in four runs, Gleyber Torres blasted a pair of solo homers and the host Detroit Tigers rolled past the Cincinnati Reds 11-5 on Friday.

Torres drove in three runs while Javier Baez had three hits, including a homer, scored three runs and drove in two more. Jake Rogers added two hits and drove in two runs.

Keider Montero (3-1) gave up two runs in five innings to pick up the win in the opener of a three-game set.

TJ Friedl and Elly Da La Cruz homered for Cincinnati. De La Cruz and Tyler Stephenson each had three hits and two RBIs. Nick Martinez (4-7) gave up four runs in five innings in the loss.

Torres, leading off the bottom of the first, ambushed the first pitch he saw from Martinez, smacking a fastball over the left field wall.

Detroit left two runners stranded in the second. Friedl then led off the third by ripping a hanging Montero slider over the right field wall.

With two outs in the third, Greene crushed a Martinez fastball over the visitors’ bullpen in left-center field to give the Tigers a 2-1 lead.

The Reds squandered an opportunity in the fourth. Singles by Spencer Steer, Connor Joe and Matt McLain loaded the bases with two outs. Friedl popped up a 2-2 fastball from Montero to leave them stranded.

Baez gave Detroit some breathing room in the bottom of the inning when he lofted a Martinez changeup that bounced off the top of the left field wall and into the stands.

De La Cruz made it 3-2 in the fifth when he pounded a knuckle curve over the right field wall.

The Tigers pushed across four runs in the sixth for a 7-2 advantage. Walks to Baez and Rogers, sandwiching a Zach McKinstry single, loaded the bases with no outs. Torres hit a sacrifice fly to score Baez. Jahmai Jones reached on an infield single to load the bases again and Greene cleared them with a line drive double to left.

Torres’ second homer of the game came against Ian Gibaut in the seventh. Rogers had two RBIs in a three-run eighth.

–Field Level Media