Kansas City 21-12 .636 - Detroit 20-13 .606 1 Minnesota 18-15 .545 3 Chi White Sox 13-17 .433 6.5 Cleveland 11-20 .355 9
Tigers starter David Price who is dealing with a hamstring issue that forced him to push his next start by two days to Saturday, said that the injury is not cause for concern, per MLive.com. "My health right now is fine," he said. "My last two days have been very good, very encouraging." Price, who suffered the injury after stepping on a bat while backing up home plate last is 3-1 with a 3.30 ERA and 33:10 K:BB ratio in 46 1/3 innings.
Twins 1. Brian Dozier (R) 2B 2. Torii Hunter (R) RF 3. Joe Mauer (L) 1B 4. Trevor Plouffe (R) 3B 5. Kurt Suzuki (R) C 6. Eddie Rosario (L) LF 7. Eduardo Escobar (S) DH 8. Aaron Hicks (S) CF 9. Danny Santana (S) SS ________________________________Twins - Ricky Nolasco (R) @ Tigers - Kyle Lobstein (L) 7:08pm et. Tigers 1. Anthony Gose (L) CF 2. Ian Kinsler (R) 2B 3. Miguel Cabrera (R) 1B 4. Victor Martinez (S) DH 5. J.D. Martinez (R) RF 6. Yoenis Cespedes (R) LF 7. Nick Castellanos (R) 3B 8. James McCann (R) C 9. Jose Iglesias (R) SS
Twins - 6, Tigers - 2 DETROIT -- While Kyle Lobstein's surprising start fell apart on Wednesday night with the roughest outing of his young Major League career, Ricky Nolasco looked a little like his younger self with seven strikeouts over 5 1/3 innings of two-run ball, sending the Twins to a 6-2 win over the Tigers at Comerica Park. Tigers pitching had allowed only one earned run to the Twins over four games at Comerica Park this season, but Minnesota's recent offensive rebound became apparent against Lobstein, who lasted just 2 1/3 innings after three straight outings of at least seven. Torii Hunter's first-inning solo homer opened the scoring before three consecutive run-scoring extra-base hits knocked out Lobstein in the third. "It was in the zone or down the middle," Lobstein said of Hunter's home run. "It's pretty easy to hit 86 [mph] when it's down the middle. Other than that, just inconsistency. I was a little quick with the delivery, so it's hard to have the same release point when the rest of your mechanics are out of sync. Really just letting the game get too fast." Detroit rallied multiple times late, but couldn't get the big hit needed to make it a close game against Nolasco -- whose 5 1/3 innings marked his deepest start of the season -- or the procession of relievers who followed. The Tigers were held to two runs or fewer for the fourth consecutive game and the ninth time in their last 14. "It was a good game for us getting a win here in Detroit after four losses," Twins manager Paul Molitor said. "We kept our optimism from Ricky from what we saw from him in Spring Training. He threw the ball well. He had a little more velocity out of the chute, and you could tell his breaking pitches, both his slider and curveball, were sharp early." (MLB.com)
Tigers 1. Anthony Gose (L) CF 2. Ian Kinsler (R) 2B 3. Miguel Cabrera (R) 1B 4. J.D. Martinez (R) DH 5. Yoenis Cespedes (R) LF 6. Nick Castellanos (R) 3B 7. Rajai Davis (R) RF 8. Bryan Holaday (R) C 9. Jose Iglesias (R) SS
Tigers - 13, Twins - 1. Tigers starter Anibal Sanchez was solid against the Twins on Thursday. The right-hander pitcehd eight innings, giving up just one earned run on five hits. He walked one and tied his season-high with nine strikeouts. He threw 71 of his 111 pitches for strikes, as he improved his record to 3-4 on the season. The only run Sanchez surrendered came on an RBI single from Eduardo Escobar in the bottom of the fourth. All five hits he gave up went for singles. This was a big rebound for Sanchez, who gave up six runs (five earned) in his last start. Sanchez will carry a 4.76 ERA into his next start on Monday against the Brewers. Cabrera hit 2 HR's also... another series win for the Tigers!
Tigers 1. Anthony Gose (L) CF 2. Ian Kinsler (R) 2B 3. Miguel Cabrera (R) 1B 4. J.D. Martinez (R) RF 5. Yoenis Cespedes (R) LF 6. Nick Castellanos (R) 3B 7. James McCann (R) C 8. Jose Iglesias (R) SS 9. Shane Greene (R) P _________________________________Shane Greene vs Carlos Martinez__________________________ Cardinals 1. Peter Bourjos (R) CF 2. Matt Carpenter (L) 3B 3. Matt Holliday (R) LF 4. Jhonny Peralta (R) SS 5. Mark Reynolds (R) 1B 6. Kolten Wong (L) 2B 7. Yadier Molina (R) C 8. Jason Heyward (L) RF 9. Carlos Martinez (R) P
ST. LOUIS (MLB.com) -- Miguel Cabrera has officially chased down his hero. Cabrera's two-run home run to straightaway center in the seventh inning of Friday night's 10-4 win over the Cardinals was No. 399 in his career, tying him with Andres Galarraga for the most homers hit by a Venezuelan-born player. "He was one of the best baseball players coming from Venezuela," Cabrera said. "I watched him, everybody watched him. He was a big-time hitter." Cabrera's homer gave the Tigers a 4-0 lead and stood up as the big hit in the victory over the Cardinals, who have the Majors' best record and a gaudy 14-4 mark at home this season. It also broke a curious day-night split for Cabrera, who entered the game with just nine total hits and a .158 average in the Tigers' 17 night games this year. On Friday, Cabrera went 3-for-5 with two RBIs two runs scored. "He was cool for a little while and he's heated up quickly with a couple homers yesterday and one today, a couple other hits today," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. "So he looks like he's really staying back and able to drive his bat through the zone right now." Cabrera's home run was the highlight of another power display by the Tigers' offense. Yoenis Cespedes gave Detroit an early lead with a solo shot in the second and J.D. Martinez followed Cabrera's homer to go back-to-back for the first time this year. The three homers gave the Tigers seven home runs in their last two games. Not coincidentally, a once dormant offense that didn't score more than two runs in the previous four games has exploded for 23 runs in the past two. "Hitting's contagious," Martinez said. "Any time you get a hit off a pitcher, his confidence goes down. And then boom another one, then boom another one, and then before you know it, he's scared to throw a strike, and that's how you open the gates ... This game is all about confidence." No one is more confident than Cabrera right now. He's hitting .538 in his last three games, with three homers, seven RBIs and two runs scored.
get miggy with it. but i'm a bit puzzled about how a guy can hit 3 home runs but only score 2 runs *SCRATCH*
Cabrera hit one homer yesterday, his 9th. there were 3 homers by the Tigers but not all by the same player
