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Game 7: Minnesota @ Detroit (April 11, 2017)

Nice. Our bats are really cold right now, but out pitching is lights out, it's important to win these games early because our starting pitching isn't going to be this hot for very long, don't waste it.
 
http://m.mlb.com/det/video/search?team_id=116&tagName=Detroit Tigers
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers Win over the twins.

ROARS:
Matt Boyd: Gave up one hit in six innings of work. He also struck out six batters and walked two.
According to MLB’s Baseball Savant, Boyd threw 26 changeups and got eight swings and misses — including four for strike three.

James McCann: Dude gained some pop over the offseason. Smashed his third dinger in four games, this one a two-run homer.

Most of the Tigers bullpen: Shane Greene, Kyle Ryan, and Justin Wilson put in a combined three innings of no-run ball. Greene gave up a hit and a walk but was quickly pulled after an out in favor of Ryan, who eliminated any danger. Wilson walked a batter but that was as eventful as his inning of work became.

HISSES:
Tigers offense: Santiago was pitching well, but the Tigers still had chances to make him pay and couldn’t capitalize.

Francisco Rodriguez: Didn’t do so well. Gave up a one-out double and an RBI single with a 2-0 lead. Then, he gave up a bloop single to pinch hitting Joe Mauer to put two on.

STATS AND INFO:
James McCann's home run gave the Tigers a homer in their first seven games for only the second time since 1913. The other time was in 2014.
Bill Freehan never did it. Lance Parrish never did it. Heck, Mickey Cochrane never did it.
James McCann is the first Tigers catcher to start the season with three home runs in seven games.


Miguel Cabrera got an opposite-field single in the fourth inning. It was hit third hit all season, in 24 at-bats, and all three have been opposite-field singles.
Cabrera was slowed during the WBC and in the final weeks of spring training by a stiff back. It appears to the layman’s eye that he is swinging mostly with his arms, not using his lower body much.
Manager Brad Ausmus, though, shot down the notion that Cabrera was still battling the back injury.
“He hasn’t said anything to me about it, if it is,” Ausmus said.
Asked if he had noticed that Cabrera wasn’t swinging freely, Ausmus said, “Not at all, no.”
Cabrera’s sense of humor is still intact. As the media was allowed into the clubhouse after the game, he was in the hallway talking to hitting coach Lloyd McClendon.
“It’s all your fault,” he joked to McClendon. “It’s all your fault.”
 
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