Tigers-Red Sox delayed because of lightning in top of the 8th

Falling backward, Monasterio’s throw to the plate skipped past Narvaez. Both Keith and Jones scored.

Two unearned runs without the benefit of a hit.

With the fans still on the concourse, with lightning flashing in the distance, the Red Sox leap-frogged the Tigers at the top of the seventh with one swing and then kept on scoring runs.

Reliever Ricky Vanasco, who threw 28 pitches in 1.1 innings Sunday, surrendered an opposite-field, three-run homer to Jarren Duran.

The inning was prolonged when right-fielder Wenceel Perez lost a fly ball in the lights (or lightning), giving Masataka Yoshida a double.

With two left-handed hitters coming up, manager AJ Hinch brought in lefty Enmanuel De Jesus. Lefty-swingers Wilyer Abreu and Marcelo Mayer lined RBI singles.

The Red Sox sent 10 batters to the plate and scored five runs.

With Skubal scratched, the Tigers were forced into a second straight bullpen game. But this one was different. Tyler Holton started both, but the composition was different.

Against the Rangers Sunday night, manager AJ Hinch deployed a fleet of relievers. The hope Monday was that right-hander Ty Madden, called up from Triple-A Toledo to spot Skubal, would be able to cover bulk innings.

Which he did.

Madden, who had some bumpy outings at Toledo, gave the Tigers five scoreless innings, allowing four hits, two of them infield hits, and struck out seven. He mixed five pitches but leaned hard on a much-improved cutter, getting five whiffs on 13 swings and six called strikes with it.

In the third inning, he pitched his way out of a second-and-third, no-out mess. He struck out Contreres with a cutter. Then he got left-handed hitting Yoshida to hit a one-hopper to first baseman Spencer Torkelson, who was playing in on the grass.

Torkelson threw home, and the Tigers got the lead runner, Monasterio, out in a rundown.

Madden finished the inning by striking out Trevor Story with a 94-mph four-seamer.

The good times didn’t last.

The Red Sox lost the services of Roman Anthony in the second inning. He felt something in his right wrist during his first at-bat. The Red Sox called it right wrist discomfort.

This story will be updated.

Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com

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