DETROIT (AP) — Riley Greene and Kerry Carpenter homered in a three-run sixth inning and the Detroit Tigers extended their winning streak to five games with a 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night.
The Angels, last place in the AL West at 54-78, have lost six straight and 12 of their last 14 games.
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DETROIT (AP) — Riley Greene and Kerry Carpenter homered in a three-run sixth inning and the Detroit Tigers extended their winning streak to five games with a 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night.
Los Angeles Angels center fielder Kevin Pillar is unable to catch the solo home run hit by Detroit Tigers' Riley Greene during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Los Angeles Angels' Jo Adell is greeted in the dugout after scoring on a sacrifice by Taylor Ward during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Detroit Tigers designated hitter Kerry Carpenter connects for a two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Detroit Tigers' Matt Vierling connects for a RBI double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Johnny Cueto throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Brant Hurter throws during the second inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
The start of the game was delayed 2 hours, 45 minutes by heavy storms and the first pitch wasn't thrown until 9:45 p.m. But the Tigers didn't have any trouble with the late start.
Brant Hurter (2-1) picked up his second MLB win in his first start, allowing two runs on four hits in five innings. Jason Foley got the final out for his 18th save.
Johnny Cueto (0-2) took the loss in his second start of the season. The 38-year-old right-hander allowed six runs on six hits — including three homers — in five-plus innings.
The Angels took a 1-0 lead in the first. Taylor Ward opened the game with a double, took third on a fly ball and scored on Nolan Schanuel's infield single.
Cueto retired the first nine hitters before Parker Meadows hit a deep fly to left-center field that dropped between Ward and Kevin Pillar for a triple. Matt Vierling doubled with one out, tying the score, and took third on Jo Adell's error.
Kerry Carpenter took advantage of another defensive mistake as his bouncer went past Zach Neto for an RBI single, making it 2-1 Tigers.
Adell tripled in the fifth and scored the tying run on Ward's sacrifice fly. But, Jake Rogers homered to center in the bottom of the inning. Greene made it 4-2 with a long homer, his 19th, to center in the sixth, and Carpenter added his 13th homer of the season, a two-run shot, later in the inning.
TRAINER'S ROOM
The Angels placed LHP Matt Moore on the 15-day injured list with a left forearm strain and selected the contract of RHP Ryan Miller from Triple-A Salt Lake City. To make room for Miller on the 40-man roster, the Angels moved OF Mike Trout to the 60-day injured list.
UP NEXT
The teams play the second game of the series on Wednesday. The Angels will start RHP Griffin Canning (4-11, 5.18 ERA) in the second game of the series on Wednesday. Detroit will use an opener.
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Los Angeles Angels pitching coach Barry Enright visits starting pitcher Johnny Cueto on the mound during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Los Angeles Angels center fielder Kevin Pillar is unable to catch the solo home run hit by Detroit Tigers' Riley Greene during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Los Angeles Angels' Jo Adell is greeted in the dugout after scoring on a sacrifice by Taylor Ward during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Detroit Tigers designated hitter Kerry Carpenter connects for a two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Detroit Tigers' Matt Vierling connects for a RBI double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Johnny Cueto throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Brant Hurter throws during the second inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach residents and visitors can feel it coming in the air tonight — and the rest of the weekend — as “Miami Vice” cast and crew gather to celebrate the iconic television series' 40th anniversary.
The show premiered on NBC on Sept. 16, 1984, and ran for five seasons. The “cocaine cowboy”-era crime drama, featuring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as undercover cops, was revolutionary in its use of pop culture, style and music and spawned a film reboot in 2006. And by filming the show primarily in South Florida, the series helped transform the image of Miami and Miami Beach in a way that would reverberate for decades.
Former cast members, including Edward James Olmos and Michael Madsen, met with fans Friday at the Royal Palm South Beach and were set to return Saturday. Also attending were Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown, Bruce McGill, Joaquim De Almeida, Bill Smitrovich, Pepe Serna and Ismael East Carlo.
“It was not ‘Hill Street Blues.’ It was not ‘Police Story,’ ” Olmos said on Friday. “It was way different in artistic endeavor on all levels. The creativity, as far as music, writing, production value. The production value was so overwhelming. We spared nothing. I mean, these people were serious, and they spent a lot of time and money for each episode, and it shows.”
Olmos said that the show had a profound effect on introducing Miami to the world and creating an idealized version of South Beach that would later become a reality.
“When we were here, when we started the show in 1984, there was no South Beach,” Olmos said. “There was a South Beach, but it was dilapidated. The buildings were all literally falling into disrepair.”
Years before serious restoration efforts would transform South Beach into a center of fashion, music and tourism, Olmos said productions crews were painting the exteriors of the neighborhood's historic Art Deco buildings themselves to make them look good on camera.
“We would paint the facades and put out tables, and we did what now became the reality of South Beach,” Olmos said.
While most television production was still being done in Los Angeles or New York in the 1980s, Olmos doubts the show would have been as successful if they had tried to fake South Florida in California.
“They could have never shot this anywhere else in the world,” Olmos said. “Look at the show from the very first episode, and as it went on, the beauty of Miami is unprecedented.”
Premiering just a few years after the launch of MTV, “Miami Vice” embraced contemporary style and music. Besides Jan Hammer's original scoring, the producers regularly included songs from popular artists like Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Dire Straits and Foreigner.
Fred Lyle, an associate producer and music coordinator for “Miami Vice,” said the importance of music was evident from the first episode, as “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins plays while Johnson and Thomas cruise the streets of Miami in their Ferrari convertible.
“And that’s when ‘Miami Vice’ became different musically than anything else,” Lyle said. “Music was going over this scene, that scene. One song was helping to stitch the fabric of the narrative together.”
Aside from the show's style, the stories and characters also had substance. Veteran television actor Bruce McGill has played countless cops, coaches and other authority figures over several decades, but he said his guest role as a burnt-out former detective in the second season of “Miami Vice” stands out compared to the straight-laced characters that comprise most of his career.
“It was a very good part that they allowed me to make better, to enhance, to ham it up a little,” McGill said. “And it was very satisfying.”
"Miami Vice" fan Matt Lechliter, 39, traveled all the way to Miami Beach from Oxnard, California, to celebrate the show's anniversary.
“I wasn't alive when it premiered, but it's a part of me,” Lechliter said.
Lechliter said he remembers watching the later seasons and reruns with his parents as a child but really became a fan when he rediscovered the show about five years ago.
“I binge-watched it," Lechliter said. “I was like, ‘Wow, this really is amazing.’ When I heard about this event, I said, ‘I’ve gotta go.' ”
The anniversary celebration will continue through the weekend with career discussions, as well as bus and walking tours of filming locations.
The Miami Vice Museum is open to the public from Friday to Sunday, featuring a wide range of items never before displayed together since the show’s conclusion in 1989. The exhibit is being hosted at the Wilzig Erotic Art Museum.
And to kick off the celebration on Thursday, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner met with cast and crew at the Avalon Hotel in South Beach to present a proclamation declaring Sept. 16, 2024, as “Miami Vice Day.”
Fans gathered at the Royal Palm South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the television series "Miami Vice." Actor Bruce McGill, who guest-starred as retired detective Hank Weldon in the show's second season, signs a model Ferrari for a fan. (AP Photo/David Fischer)
Fans gathered at the Royal Palm South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the television series "Miami Vice." Actress Olivia Brown, right, who played Detective Trudy Joplin, speaks with a fan. (AP Photo/David Fischer)
Fans gathered at the Royal Palm South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the television series "Miami Vice." (AP Photo/David Fischer)
Fans gathered at the Royal Palm South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the television series "Miami Vice." Actor Edward James Olmos, who played Lt. Martin Castillo, takes a photo with a fan. (AP Photo/David Fischer)
