day game in Major League history, J.P. Arencibia's three-run homer in the 16th inning sent the Toronto Blue Jays to a 7-4 win over the Cleveland Indians Thursday. Arencibia was 0 for 6 with three strikeouts before connecting off Jairo Asencio. The marathon eclipsed the previous longest openers — 15 innings between Cleveland and Detroit in 1960 and 15 innings between Philadelphia and Washington in 1926. Luis Perez, Toronto's seventh pitcher, pitched four scoreless innings for the win and Sergio Santos got two outs to end the 5-hour, 14-minute game. Jose Bautista homered and hit a sacrifice fly for Toronto, which rallied for three runs in the ninth off All-Star closer Chris Perez to force extra innings. Tigers 3, Red Sox 2: Justin Verlander was brilliant on the mound and Prince Fielder drove in a key run with his bat. Still, after a rare slip by Jose Valverde, the Detroit Tigers were all tied with Boston in the bottom of the ninth. Up stepped Austin Jackson — Detroit's strikeout-prone leadoff man — needing only a little poke through the infield to win the game. Jackson delivered, hitting a sharp groundball past third with the bases loaded to give the Tigers a 3-2 win over the Red Sox in Thursday's opener. It was Jackson's third hit of the game, and it enabled his team to leave the ballpark happy on a day Verlander once again looked impressive.
