The Detroit Tigers kept their spot at the top of the MLB, winning yet another series by taking down the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Sunday afternoon.

While the sparks didn’t fly in this three-game series on MLB’s rivalry weekend, each game proved to be nail-biting in its own way as all three contests across the border were decided by one run.

“It’s not very hard to stay locked in games like these,” Spencer Torkelson told FanDuel Sports Network Detroit after the game. “You know, it’s kind of the edge on your seat, and you’re on your toes even more. So yeah, it’s more fun.”

Torkelson’s two-out RBI single in the top of the seventh was the difference, as the sharp single off relief pitcher Braydon Fisher dropped in front of Dalton Varsho to bring Gleyber Torres home.

“Just kept it simple. Just get a good pitch to hit, put a good swing on it, and trust that,” Torkelson said.

Torkelson’s first hit went off the center-field wall, bringing home Kerry Carpenter and Zach McKinstry for a two-out RBI double, as Detroit (31-16) took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first. Torkelson ended 2-for-4 and drove in all three runs for the Tigers, with both hits coming on two-out situations.

Three Tigers had multi-hit days, as Riley Greene went 2-for-5 as the designated hitter. Catcher Dillon Dingler got three hits in four at-bats, including a double. Dingler finished 4-for-7 in his two games played in this series.

Jackson Jobe earned his fourth win of the season, as the Tigers have won every game (8-0) when the young pitcher starts on the mound.

“There were innings where he was completely dominant, especially when we needed it,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said postgame. “So for him to hang in there and stay in the game, get to 90 pitches, get through six innings and not have to go out and get him, was a big reason we could set up the pen the way we did.”

The bottom of the first belonged to Akil Baddoo, who not only jumped at the wall to rob Varsho on a deep fly, but then dove to snag Alejandro Kirk’s liner and on the same play threw to second base to double up Bo Bichette. Those two highlight plays from Baddoo created all three outs for the Tigers in the first.

Torkelson raved about Baddoo postgame, saying those two plays were some of the greatest he’s seen back-to-back.

“He’s played both corners and given us a nice spark. It’s great to see him complete plays,” Hinch said of Baddoo, who finished 1-for-3 and drew a walk in just his second game of the 2025 season.

Sunday’s game was also a matchup between brothers-in-law José Berríos and Javier Báez, but it was Blue Jays starter Berríos winning this battle as Báez went 0-for-3 with a strikeout against Berríos and 0-for-4 in the game.

Jobe cruised through the first three innings by only allowing two hits on just 31 pitches, but the Blue Jays seemed to figure him out after that. After Jobe walked Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to begin the bottom of the fourth, the Toronto bats woke up and a couple of groundball singles from Kirk and Ernie Clement tied the game at 2-2.

Things got tight for Jobe and the Tigers in the next inning, as a Jonatan Clase single and a Bichette walk put two Blue Jays on the bases with no outs. Jobe bounced back with three straight outs, ending with a Zach McKinstry jumping throw from third to first that kept the game tied.

Both Jobe and Berríos gave up two earned runs in six innings of work, as the 22-year old Jobe gave up six hits and two walks with five strikeouts. Berríos gave up eight hits with just one walk, with Blue Jays pitchers surrendering 11 hits overall against Detroit.

However, after that scare in the bottom of the fifth, Tigers pitching only gave up two hits between Jobe and the rest of the bullpen, with Will Vest earning the save after getting Guerrero Jr. to ground out for the final out.

“He’s got a ton of confidence in his stuff, he’s going to pound the strike zone, he doesn’t concede. If anything, he speeds the game up a little bit and goes into attack mode,” Hinch said of Vest.

The Tigers have now won four of their last five series.