Consider the seal broken.

The Tigers made Dodgers’ Roki Sasaki throw 41 pitches in the first inning Saturday but let him off the hook after just two runs. Seattle’s Emerson Hancock wasn’t nearly as fortunate.

The Tigers batted around against the Mariners’ right-hander Monday, scoring six first-inning runs on their way to their first win of 2025, 9-6 at T-Mobile Park.

And it all started with a guy who at 1:30 a.m. was still back in Toledo.

Justyn-Henry Malloy, who went 2 for 4 with the Triple-A Mud Hens Sunday, thought he’d be traveling to Round Rock, Texas on Monday. Instead, he was told to get to Detroit for an 8 a.m. flight to Seattle, summoned to replace Gleyber Torres, who was put on the 10-day injured list with an oblique strain.

Malloy flew across the country and, on no sleep, got to the team hotel just before the first bus was heading to the ballpark.

“When we got to the field, we let him know he was going to be active and leading off,” manager AJ Hinch said. “I don’t know what hit him the hardest, the being active part, that he was DH-ing or that he was leading off.”

All of the above.

Malloy stepped into the box at 6:40 p.m. Pacific time and slammed a 376-foot double to the wall in right-center and he scampered home on a broken-bat single by Kerry Carpenter.

The merry-go-round was just getting rolling. Carpenter was thrown out trying to steal but Riley Greene followed with a bullet homer to left field. The ball left his bat at 110.8 mph.

Spencer Torkelson singled, Colt Keith walked and with two outs, Dillon Dingler and Trey Sweeney delivered RBI singles. Javier Baez, batting ninth, capped the outburst with a two-strike, two-run double off the fence in left.

The Tigers hadn’t put up a six-spot in the first inning on the road since 2008.

Malloy walked his next two times up and scored another run. Again he was chased home by Carpenter, who delivered a two-out double in the third.

The last Tiger to have an extra-base hit and two walks in the first three innings of a game? None other than Brad Ausmus in 2000.

Malloy wasn’t done. In the seventh inning, he drove in a run with his second hit of the game, a two-infield single.

Dingler finished the night with three singles, two RBI and two runs scored. He’s hitting .455 with a 1.364 OPS on the young season. Keith ended up two walks, a double and a single. Sweeney and Baez each had three hits.

The runs were a welcomed cushion for rookie right-hander Jackson Jobe, who made his first big-league start. It probably didn’t go as he might’ve dreamt it.

After a clean, 11-pitch first, Mariners Randy Arozarena launched his first pitch in the second inning, a center-cut 97 mph fastball, into the left-field seats.

Jobe lasted just four innings and allowed three runs. He gave up a solo homer to Luke Raley in the fourth and his pitch-count was elevated (79) by four walks.

He walked No. 9 hitter J.P. Crawford to leadoff the third. Crawford came in hitting .091. Victor Robles followed with a double and he scored on a ground out by Julio Rodriguez.

Baez, playing third base, made a diving stop on Rodriguez’s ball and first baseman Torkelson made a diving catch of a liner by Cal Raleigh to help Jobe limit the damage in that inning.

His stuff, as it typically is, was electric. But too often he put the ball either in the middle of the plate or he missed the plate.

Still, Jobe handed the game over to the bullpen with an 8-3 lead.

Lefty Brant Hurter pitched the final three innings, allowing a two-run homer to Raleigh in the ninth.

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