DETROIT -- Somebody get Tigers outfielder an endorsement deal.

Hours after the Tigers announced their home will be named Fifth Third Park next season, their No. 53 had a game. Malgeri homered, doubled and made a diving catch in support of River Ryan’s Tigers debut, lifting Detroit to a 9-2 win over Washington on Monday night as the Tigers began their final homestand of the season at what is for now still called Comerica Park.

Malgeri, called up from Triple-A in June after a hot start with Toledo playing at Fifth Third Field, continues to make his case for a role on next year’s Tigers roster in what will then be known as Fifth Third Park, a renaming announced Monday as a result of Fifth Third Bank’s recent merger with Comerica. Malgeri was not part of the ceremony, but he found the spotlight soon enough. Starting in right field, Malgeri began his evening by soaring across the right-field gap to snare a 108 mph line drive off the bat of Nationals slugger Abimelec Ortiz to close out Ryan’s first inning.

Moments later, Malgeri doubled off the left-field fence as part of a two-run, three-hit opening inning off Nationals lefty starter DJ Herz. Four innings later, he took a Luis Perales splitter deep to left for a three-run home run that broke the game open. His fourth home run of the season was his first since a two-homer game on Aug. 14. Spencer Torkelson added a two-run homer,  his 25th of the season, two batters later.

Call it a coincidence, but Malgeri entered Monday with a .934 OPS at home between Toledo and Detroit, playing at Fifth Third Field and soon-to-be Fifth Third Park. He actually has reverse platoon splits this season since coming up to Detroit: Monday’s homer was his first off a southpaw despite playing regularly against lefties in recent weeks. In a season when the Tigers have gotten a long look at their prospects down the stretch, Malgeri has been an underdog story, having never been ranked in the Tigers' system after Detroit selected the New Hampshire native in the 18th round of the 2021 MLB Draft out of Northeastern University.

Ryan, acquired from the Dodgers in the Tarik Skubal trade at the end of July but delayed to Detroit by a right hamstring injury, tossed three scoreless innings with three strikeouts. His fastball topped out at 98 mph but played bigger, with an average 2587 rpm of spin and 19 inches of induced vertical break. Keider Montero (10-9) piggybacked with four scoreless innings and five strikeouts for the win.