Diamondbacks Top Tigers 9-6 in Home Opener

PHOENIX - Corbin Carroll smashed a three-run homer and drove in four runs, while Michael Soroka delivered a dominant debut with an immaculate fifth inning, leading the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 9-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers in their home opener Monday night at Chase Field.

The win provided a strong rebound for the Diamondbacks, who had been swept in their season-opening series at Dodger Stadium. Soroka, making his first start for Arizona after signing a 7.5 million, one-year contract in the offseason, pitched five scoreless innings, allowing four hits and tying a career high with 10 strikeouts. The 28-year-old right-hander, who represented Canada in the World Baseball Classic, overwhelmed Detroit's lineup in the fifth by retiring Javier Báez, Kerry Carpenter and Gleyber Torres on nine pitches. He capped the sequence with a 95 mph fastball past Torres for his 10th strikeout, becoming just the fourth pitcher in franchise history to throw an immaculate inning. The others were Randy Johnson in 2001, Byung-Hyun Kim in 2002 and Wade Miley in 2012.

Soroka, a 2019 All-Star with the Atlanta Braves, had missed most of the 2020 season and all of 2021 and 2022 due to consecutive...