Mark Canha beat his old team with a walk-off sacrifice fly in the ninth inning as the San Francisco Giants, held hitless for six innings, rallied for a 3-2 victory over the visiting Detroit Tigers on Friday night. After scoring single runs in the seventh and eighth to draw even, the Giants got a gift in the ninth when second baseman Colt Keith misplayed Heliot Ramos' leadoff grounder before Jason Foley (3-4) walked Michael Conforto and hit Matt Chapman in the head. Shelby Miller came on to get Mike Yastrzemski to ground into a force play at the plate for a first out and got ahead 0-2 on Canha before the veteran ran the count to 2-2, then drilled a deep fly to left to send Michael Conforto home with the game-winner.
Canha had been acquired by the Giants from the Tigers last Tuesday for minor league pitcher Eric Silva. Tyler Rogers (2-4), who pitched a 1-2-3 top of the ninth, was credited with the win in the Giants' 10th walk-off victory of the season. Having been no-hit by Beau Briske and Kenta Maeda for three innings apiece, the Giants rallied into a 2-2 tie on a pair of sacrifice flies, one by Conforto in the seventh and the other by Patrick Bailey in the eighth.
The Tigers also scored one run at a time and without the benefit of a run-producing hit in the second and fifth. Ryan Vilade opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly, before Javier Baez made it 2-0 when he raced home on a throwing error by Giants catcher Curt Casali. Both Detroit runs came off Giants starter Robbie R.