Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - Placido Polanco's run-scoring single with two outs in the bottom of the ninth pushed Detroit past Boston, 10-9, in the third installment of a four-game set from Comerica Park.

Polanco, who finished 5-for-6 with three RBI and two runs scored in the contest, looped a broken-bat base hit off Jonathan Papelbon beyond Red Sox shortstop Julio Lugo in short left field to plate Edgar Renteria with the winning run.

"It was a really good pitch, but sometimes it's going to go your way and sometimes it's not," Polanco said. "The game's not over with until it's over. It showed it today. Some tough at-bats against Papelbon. Just shows what can happen."

Renteria reached on an error by Julio Lugo, and after an Ivan Rodriguez sacrifice bunt, Detroit tied the game when Curtis Granderson, grounded out to second to score Ryan Raburn. Raburn was pinch-running for Matt Joyce, who began the frame with a check-swing infield single off Papelbon (2-1).

"They got a 0-2 check-swing for a hit and an error that put us in a hole," said Red Sox manager Terry Francona. "They got a lot of hits tonight, but the one's they got in the ninth hurt the most because they found holes."

Rodriguez went 2-for-4 with two runs knocked in for the Tigers, who snapped a five-game slide by pounding out 18 hits. Gary Sheffield and Magglio Ordonez each had three hits, a run scored and one driven in.

"It's tough, coming back like that and beating one of the best closers in the game," Rodriguez said. "Especially with what we've been through in the last few games."

Tigers reliever Todd Jones (1-0) hurled a scoreless inning of relief to pick up his first win of the season for starter Armando Galarraga, who allowed seven hits and five runs, while tying a career-high with six strikeouts over 5 1/3 innings.

Kevin Youkilis homered twice and drove in three while Mike Lowell collected three hits including a home run with three RBI for the Red Sox, whose five- game win streak came to an end.

Sox starter Clay Buchholz was charged with 10 hits and five runs over four innings.

Polanco broke a scoreless tie in the third, when he doubled in Rodriguez. Carlos Guillen followed with a single to plate Polanco for a 2-0 game. Ordonez dropped a single to right which moved Guillen to third, and Miguel Cabrera walked to load the bases.

Sheffield lined a single to left which put the Tigers up 3-0 and moved the runners up one base. Joyce then hit into a fielder's choice which erased Sheffield at second but scored Ordonez.

Boston picked up two runs in the fourth, as Lowell singled with two down and Youkilis deposited a pitch into the left-field stands. However, Detroit added a run in the home half on an Ordonez RBI single.

The defending champions kept digging, and in the fifth Jed Lowrie's sacrifice fly brought the Sox within two and a David Ortiz cue shot up the middle made it a one-run game.

Julian Tavarez helped out the home team in the home half, turning a one-run Sox deficit into a four-run bulge by allowing a two-run double to Rodriguez and a run-scoring single by Polanco.

Youkilis added a leadoff shot in the sixth for an 8-5 game which spelled the end of Galarraga's outing.

Detroit stranded a pair in the home half against David Aardsma, and that proved costly when Lowell launched his second homer of the game into left field, a three-run blast for an 8-8 tie.

Dustin Pedroia's pinch-hit single in the eighth off Francisco Cruceta put Boston up by a one.