How Detroit Tigers top prospect Jackson Jobe fared in Game 4 of ALDS vs Guardians

Jackson Jobe entered a pressure-packed situation in Game 4 of the ALDS , facing the middle of the Cleveland Guardians' lineup.

And Jobe, the Detroit Tigers ' rookie pitching phenom and top prospect, did his job to keep the Guardians in check in the eighth inning Thursday at Comerica Park.

Jobe entered with the Tigers trailing 4-3 in the top of the eighth, needing a win to advance to the American League Championship Series.

Jobe got Guardians cleanup hitter Josh Naylor to chase an outside fastball and pop out in foul territory. Lane Thomas worked a 3-2 count against Jobe in the next at-bat, but he was late on a 99.6 mph fastball on the outside corner and flew out to Wenceel Pérez in right field.

Pérez had a chance to end the inning on a Will Brennan line drive to deep right field, but Pérez dropped the catch as he collided with the wall, resulting in a double. In the next at-bat, Andres Gimenez smoked a groundball to the hole between Colt Keith and Vierling, but Keith made a diving stop and flipped it to first for a scoreless inning.

Jobe came back in the ninth but exited with one out and runners on first and third. On the next at-bat, David Fry delivered a perfect squeeze bunt to extend Cleveland's lead to 5-3. The run was credited to Jobe.

Fry entered as a pinch-hitter in the seventh and delivered a go-ahead two-run home run.

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