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Game 156 Tigers vs twinks Sunday Sept 24 2017 12:10 pm EST

Kinsler not-solo 2 run homer in the bottom 9th, in a game lost long ago.

10-4 final...4 game blowout sweep in the last home series of the season.

62-94...inching ever closer to 100 losses, with 6 games/2 series left on the road.

Terrible
 
A long September at Comerica Park has mercifully come to an end.

The Detroit Tigers lost their final home game of 2017 to the Minnesota Twins 10-4 on Sunday afternoon.

The Twins outscored the Tigers 39-12 in the four-game sweep. The two teams will meet again next weekend in Minneapolis to close out the 2017 regular season.

The Tigers have lost 7 in a row and are 4-20 in September, a stretch in which they've allowed 10 or more runs 9 times.

Home finale: It was the Tigers? final home game at Comerica Park this season. They finished 34-47 at home.

NOTABLE
A Tigers pitcher was struck by a line drive for the third time this week when starter Buck Farmer was hit in the foot in the first inning.
He stayed in the game after a couple of warm-ups.

Alex Wilson suffered a fractured fibula Saturday night. Jeff Ferrell was hit in the head six days ago and is still going through the concussion protocol.

The Tigers didn't get their first hit of the game until the fourth inning, when right fielder Alex Presley singled. He picked up his second base hit in the fifth inning, although didn't score in either frame.

Tigers outfielder JaCoby Jones struck in all four of his plate appearances Sunday. He's struck out in 58 of 136 plate appearances this year (42.6 percent).
JaCoby Jones. Now hear me out, because he didn?t really do anything wrong ? aside from striking out in all four of his plate appearances. Defensively he was fine in center, in spite of a few missed catches. The issue with Jones is that he seems to be too much in his head, and offensively it?s causing him to overthink his swings at the plate. Jones needs to learn to trust his instincts more, or he?s not going to have a long run in the majors.

Starting off: Buck or is it Suck Farmer remains somewhat of a mystery for the Tigers.
Buck Farmer was again beaten up at home, allowing five runs on eight hits in five innings. He walked three batters and struck out five.
Jorge Polanco opened the scoring with a solo home run in the first inning. Farmer put the Tigers in a five-run hole when the Twins scored twice in the fifth inning.

Battling back: The Tigers responded with two runs in the fifth, when Andrew Romine singled and scored on a wild pitch and Alex Presley delivered an RBI single.
Presley continues to put together an impressive season. He is hitting .318.
Alex Presley was once again excellent offensively. He?s the type of player who doesn?t invite a lot of notice, but has been steady in regular season play. As September draws to a close it?s clear Presley is playing for a job, either with the Tigers or with another team that will want a decent utility player on their bench. He?s certainly making a case for himself, and will likely end the year with an average over .300.

No shutdown inning: The game opened up from there when the Tigers couldn?t keep the Twins off the board in the sixth.
Lefty Chad Bell was greeted rudely: He allowed four hits and gave way to Victor Alcantara, who allowed a three-run home run to Eduardo Escobar.
The Tigers didn't get any closer.

Home finale: It was the Tigers? final home game at Comerica Park this season. They finished 34-47 at home.

For four seasons now, they?ve gone back and forth on whether Farmer is best suited to be a starting pitcher or a reliever. And after 31 starts this season, his 10th at the big-league level against the Twins on Sunday, they?ve reached no conclusion.
At times, his three-pitch arsenal is unhittable. He struck out five in five innings and had 10 swings and misses and 18 called strikes in 98 pitches. And yet, when he left the game after five innings, he?d been scratched for five runs and eight hits.
And yet, he fared better than the Tigers bullpen. Shredded for eight runs in two innings Saturday, the bullpen turned a 5-2 game into a 10-2 rout with a five-run sixth inning.

Amazingly, there were still fans scattered around the lower deck chanting, ?Let?s go Tigers,? until the final out. The definition of die-hards.

And they were rewarded by a two-out, two-run home run by Ian Kinsler in the bottom of the ninth. It was his 22nd of the season.
Ian Kinsler is five plate appearances shy of 600, which will trigger his $11 million vesting option for next season.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/twins-v...426#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=492426
Boxscore.

Over this past series against the Tigers, the Minnesota Twins have averaged 10 runs a game.
Think about that. 10 runs. A game.
This will be the first series in 13 years where the Twins have swept the Tigers at Comerica.

Once against it was the bullpen doing most of the damage. Buck Farmer had five relatively decent innings, with a final line of 8 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 1 HR. Not a stellar day, but by no means an insurmountable lead.

Then the bullpen came into play.
Chad Bell - 0.2 IP, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 0 K.
Victor Alcantara - 1.1 IP, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K.
Zac Reininger - 1 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K.
Warwick Saupold - 1 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2K.

Of these players Saupold is the only one was an ERA below 5.00. In fact the only one among Farmer, Bell, Alcantara, and Reininger with an ERA under 7.00 is Bell with a 6.94.

Tigers: After an off-day on Monday, the Tigers open their season-ending six-game road trip with
an 8:15 p.m. ET game against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday.
Anibal Sanchez (3-5, 6.68 ERA) takes the mound for what could be his penultimate start as a Tiger, trying to build on back-to-back six-inning, one-run outings.
 
Terrible day in the annals of Detroit sports history, i must post.

Not that there haven't been many in the past, and quite likely many more to come in the future.

Detroit vs everyone.
 
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But, bad baseball is better than no baseball. So during the summer I rather watch nothing else. It's funny, who would have thought the Lions would be the best Pro team in Michigan. All 3, Wings, Tigers & Pistons are basically doing a rebuild.
 
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