LOS ANGELES >> Manny Margot, in his fourth day as a Tiger, was a cross-country video review away from putting the Tigers ahead 4-3 in the top of ninth inning Friday.

He had ripped a clutch, two-out RBI single to score Ryan Kreidler to tie the score and then, for a few minutes, scored the go-ahead run on a triple by Riley Greene, despite stumbling and nearly falling halfway between third and home.

“I was about halfway down the line and felt like I slipped,” he said, through interpreter Carlos Guillen. “Once that happened, the chances of me being completely safe went away.”

Still, with a tumbling dive, he seemed to elude the tag of catcher Austin Barnes. Umpire John Tumpane called him safe and the Dodgers immediately challenged. After video review in New York, the call was reversed.

“It was a tough play,” Margot said. “I thought I was safe. I’ve been watch and re-watching it, seven or eight times, and I don’t see how I was out.”

The play gnawed at manager AJ Hinch, too.

“I still don’t see the out,” he said. “There’s a little small shift of his back pocket. I don’t know. It probably depends on what you want to see. We want to see that he missed (the tag) so he missed it. If you’re in the other dugout, you want to see the glove touch the back of his pocket.”

Hinch took it a step further on Saturday and reached out to Major League Baseball, requesting the snapshot the video review officials used as definitive evidence to overturn the call.

“It’s the same shot,” he said. “Right on that hip, on his backside. I didn’t want to see (the tag) so I am looking for him to miss him. It doesn’t really matter. It is what it is.”

There was frame-by-frame video making the rounds on the internet that showed Barnes’ glove making contact with Margot’s backside.

The Tigers ultimately took a 5-3 lead in the 10th, but the Dodgers, with Mookie Betts hitting a walk-off three-run homer, won the game 8-5 in bottom of the 10th.

“There’s no recourse,” Hinch said. “But they are really good about showing you what the determination was.

“I always appreciate that. Good, bad or indifferent, I appreciate the follow-up and seeing what somebody is looking at to make a determination.”

Playing it safe

Second baseman Gleyber Torres, who came out of the game Friday with soreness in his lower rib cage, was held out of the starting lineup Saturday.

“He got more and more sore as the night went on,” Hinch said. “We will see what he can tolerate today. We have an off day (Sunday) so we have to be smart. But at the same time, we’ll give him a chance to move around and do a few things inside (during the game).

“But we’re going to be super cautious to make sure it doesn’t develop into something more.”

Colt Keith, the Tigers’ regular first baseman, got the start at second base Saturday with Spencer Torkelson starting at first base.

Margot’s landing

Margot, 30, didn’t have to wait long. Within a week of being released out of Brewers camp, the Tigers, beset with injuries to three outfielders, came calling.

“As soon as we got the information they were going to give me my release, we moved really fast,” he said. “And the first team that showed interest in me was the Tigers. And here I am.”

This is Margot’s 11th big-league season and he’s coming off his worst offensive season. He slashed .238/.289/.337 in 129 games with the Twins.

But there are things in his hitting profile the Tigers like. Namely, a 17.6 career strikeout rate and a .280/.338/.416, .754 OPS against left-handed pitching.

He was having a strong camp with the Brewers (.286/.342/.400) but had no path to making the team.

“It’s part of the business,” Margot said.

“I can’t control what I can’t control. I’m here with this team on a new day, with a new opportunity and I’m trying to take advantage of every chance I have to help this team.”