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Game 18 Tigers @ Twins 4-23-2017

Any win without Miggy is the line up is great. Putting up crooked numbers on the scoreboard without him in the line up is awesome. I'll take whatever we can get right now and force myself to crack a little smile.

It still seems like it's all just smoke and mirrors with this team but they keep winning series. It's hard to muster up any realistic excitement because this bull pen just isn't fixable.
 
The baseball gods were smiling on the Tigers: In the sixth inning, the Tigers struck out 4 times yet scored 3 runs, thanks to a passed ball and error on Twins catcher Jason Castro.

Adduci's single in the second inning was his first in a Tigers' uniform.
It was his first in big-league baseball since Aug. 27, 2014, when he played for the Texas Rangers.

Tigers starter Michael Fulmer pitched into the seventh inning for the first time this season. Fulmer allowed only 2 runs on 4 hits in 7 innings on Sunday.
He struck out 7 and walked only one.

Victor Martinez, who came in hitting .190, had a pair of singles, a double and two RBIs. The double, in the sixth, was his first extra-base hit of the season in 61 at-bats.

Despite a rash of injuries and ugly losses ? especially the three in Tampa -- the Tigers managed to go 4-5 on the three-city trip.

http://m.mlb.com/det/video/search?team_id=116&tagName=Detroit Tigers
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers Win over the twins.

ROARS:
Jim Adduci: It?s pronounced Ah-doo-see, but I?m calling him Adduci Mane (named after this guy) if he keeps this up. The veteran call-up started the game 2-for-2, and his two-run double in the third helped break the game open for the Tigers. He added a third hit in the ninth, and was worth .165 WPA for the game.

John Hicks: The Tigers? other injury replacement had a monster game of his own, including an RBI double that extended the lead to 7-1 in the third and a three-run homer in the ninth. He did ground into two double plays, though...

Michael Fulmer: Things didn?t look good early for Fulmer, but he was razor sharp from there, limiting the Twins to two runs on just four hits and one walk in seven innings.

Joe Jimenez pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning, including a strikeout, to end the game.

HISSES:
Tyler Collins: I was hoping for a clean day, but Collins? 0-fer in the second spot of the lineup was noticeable.

Anibal Sanchez: Sanchez has allowed 17 runs (13 earned) in 10 2⁄3 innings this season.

STATS AND REACTIONS:
I did not like the decision to send Kinsler home on Victor Martinez?s single in the first inning. Santana was playing shallow in left, and has a strong throwing arm. With him charging a ball that was knocked down by Sano, Kinsler did not have a great chance of scoring.

Adduci looked great in his first two at-bats, but looked overmatched against Twins lefty reliever Buddy Boshers in the fifth. He might just be a platoon bat for now.

Andrew Romine is just 3-for-29 since hitting a grand slam against the Twins on April 12. He drew a pair of walks in this game, but is getting on base at a .187 clip since that date.

Remember how bad the Tigers looked defensively in their series against the Tampa Bay Rays? The Twins? defense handed all of that back in this game.

The Tigers struck out 4 times in the sixth and scored 3 runs. It was that kind of day for the Twins.
 
Anibal Sanchez ERA, FIP, ERA+
2013: 2.57*, 2.39*, 162*
2014: 3.43, 2.71, 113
2015: 4.99, 4.73, 80
2016: 5.87, 5.06, 70
2017: 10.97, 9.67, 39
* = Led League
 
Sure would be nice to see 1 or 2 call ups for the tigers light the baseball world on fire for a season .
 
The Tigers are dead last in team ERA at 5.23

As starters, they are 26th with an era of 4.42

The bull pen era is 6.63 which is last
 
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