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Game 103 Tigers vs. astros July 30, 2017

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Tigers lineup:
1. Dixon Machado, 2B
2. Mikie Mahtook, CF
3. Justin Upton, LF
4. Miguel Cabrera, 1B
5. Nicholas Castellanos, 3B
6. Victor Martinez, DH
7. James McCann, C
8. Andrew Romine, RF
9. Jose Iglesias, SS
Justin Verlander RHP
Bench: C Alex Avila, 2B Ian Kinsler, OF Jim Adduci.

astros lineup:
fisher lf
3 foot 2b
reddick cf
tubby dh
gonzalez ss
mccant c
bregman3b
white 1b
sushi rf
mccullers rhp

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2017/07/tigers_astros_preview_1.html#incart_river_index[/url]
Tigers, Astros preview: Justin Verlander makes final start before trade deadline.
Mlive

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/articl...ne-verlander-to-face-astros/?topicId=26688732
Day before Deadline, Verlander starts finale.
Tigers official site

http://www.espn.com/mlb/preview?gameId=370730106
Tigers vs. astros Game Preview.
espn

https://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2017/DET201707300.shtml
Detroit Tigers vs. Houston Astros, at Comerica Park, July 30, 2017 Matchups, Tickets, Preview.
Baseball Reference

Detroit Tigers
RHP Justin Verlander (5-7, 4.50 ERA)
21 GS, 124 IP, 122 H, 62 ER, 15 HR, 57 BB, 120 K, 4.21 FIP
Verlander is 4-0 with a 2.83 ERA in eight career starts against the Astros, but his outing in Houston this past May is one he'll surely want to forget. He took a no-decision after 5 2/3 innings, allowing six runs and nine hits while walking three.

Houston Astros
RHP Lance McCullers Jr. (7-2, 3.67 ERA)
18 GS, 100 2/3 IP, 92 H, 41 ER, 6 HR, 32 BB, 114 K, 2.85 FIP
Something McCullers continues to do well, despite his recent slide, is limit hard contact when the ball is put in play. He's allowing a barrel on just 4 percent of batted ball events, according to Statcast, which ties him for seventh in MLB among pitchers with at least 190 batted ball events.
McCullers has seen the Tigers only twice in his career, and they've yet to figure him out. He threw five innings of one-hit ball in May against Detroit, and the current lineup has a combined .192 average against him.

Who: Detroit Tigers (46-56) vs Houston Astros (68-35)
When: 1:10 p.m. EDT
Where: Comerica Park
TV: Fox Sports Detroit
Radio: FM 97.1 The Ticket and the Tigers radio network

Season series
Houston leads, 4-2

Tigers by the numbers
Overall: 46-56
Current streak: W1
At Comerica Park: 26-25
On the road: 20-31
Day games: 21-15
Night games: 25-41
vs. AL East: 10-10
vs. AL Central: 24-22
vs. AL West: 8-18
vs. NL: 4-6

Tigers record when...
Scoring first: 26-21
Opponent scores first: 20-35
Scoring 5 or more: 39-14
Scoring 4 or less: 7-42
Extra innings: 1-4
One-run games: 11-16
Two-run games: 7-10
Tigers get Quality Start: 33-23
Tigers starter works 6+ innings: 37-26
Lead after 6th/7th/8th inning: 39-8/40-8/41-4
Trail after 6th/7th/8th inning: 2-41/2-44/0-48
Tied after 6th/7th/8th inning: 5-7/4-4/5-4
Tigers outhit opponent: 32-10
Opponent outhits Tigers: 12-39
Tigers hit a home run: 43-28
Tigers don't hit a home run: 3-28
Come-from-behind wins: 25

End-of-season projection
After Saturday's win, the Tigers' final projected record by FiveThirtyEight is 74-88. The site gives Detroit a 3 percent chance of making the playoffs and a less than 1 percent chance of winning the division.
 
Verlander's last 5 starts:

4 QS 32.0 IP 25 H 8 ER 13 BB 32 SO 2.25 ERA 1.19 WHIP
 
Verlander 6 innings, 110 pitches, 0 runs 5 hits, 3 BB, 6 Strikeouts,

Watch the bullpen blow it for him.
 
Tigers scoring more runs bottom of the 6th,

bullpen will have to give up at least 6 to screw JV out of another win,
 
This should have been a sweep if it wasn't for fat fuck Rondon and brain dead Brad.
 
Tigers scoring more runs bottom of the 6th,

bullpen will have to give up at least 6 to screw JV out of another win,

This Mr. Negative stuff has worked two games in a row,

Tigers crushed the team with the best record in the American League,

another thing is they might have read the hirsute mumza's story on Saturday (Freep's Anthony Fenech) on the Tigers lack of toughness,

who knows, it's just good to see them win and Verlander with another good pitched game and getting the win.
 
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He took the mound Sunday knowing, barring something sudden and unforeseen, he wasn’t going to be traded.
He knew, for better or worse, he was going to remain the ace of the Tigers staff, which he has been for the better part of a decade.
Tigers starter Justin Verlander got another standing ovation after throwing six scoreless innings against the Houston Astros, but it probably wasn't a goodbye. Most expect that he'll still be wearing a Tigers jersey Monday night in New York.
Verlander threw 90 pitches through four innings, stranding eight Astros in the process, but then bore down to retire the sides in order in the fifth and sixth.
Fans gave Verlander a standing ovation after he retired the Astros in order in the sixth. He gave them a quick hat tip after walking off the field, perhaps for the final time, though the trade rumors have died down lately.
Verlander allowed five hits and three walks over six shutout innings.
He struck out six.
Verlander got out of a base-loaded jam in the second inning. He also came away unscathed with runners on the corners in the fourth.
Of his 110 pitches, 66 were fastballs. And they were lively, from 95 to 98 mph. He got seven swings and misses and nine called strikes with his fastball, according to MLB’s Baseball Savant site.
After a shaky start in Cleveland on July 2, Verlander now has a 2.25 ERA in his last five starts.

It was a study in poise and grit. The Astros, who possess the best road record in baseball (38-15), battled him. They worked deep counts, they worked three walks and had eight runners on the bases through the first four innings.
But Verlander never relented. He got Derek Fisher to ground out with the bases loaded in the third. The Astros put the first two runners on in the third with a bunt and a bloop. Verlander bowed his neck and struck out Evan Gattis with a 98-mph fastball, then got Marwin Gonzalez and Brian McCann on infield pop ups.
In the fourth, he got Jose Altuve to fly out with two runners on.
After that, he got seven straight outs and earned a rousing standing ovation from the Comerica Park crowd, which he acknowledged with a tip of his cap.

Justin Verlander's 374th start with the Tigers, he allowed zero earned runs for the 58th time. That's 16 percent.

Verlander - who tweaked mechanics 3 starts ago - was dynamite again:
FB 95-97 all day with slider, CB...last 3GS: 20IP 16H 5R 6BB/23K.

As for reliever Justin Wilson? The Tigers' 13-1 rout of the Houston Astros might have been a reality check for one of his top suitors.

Houston's only experienced left-handed reliever, Tony Sipp, gave up five runs, including a grand slam by Justin Upton, in a miserable seventh inning.

Astros right-handed pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. allowed five runs on eight hits over five innings. He walked four and struck out four.

The Tigers went 2-4 on the homestand, taking two of three from the Astros after being swept by the Royals.

NOTABLE
The Tigers had 15 hits in the game. And in the series, scored 14 runs off the Astros’ bullpen.

Justin Upton recorded a career-high six RBIs for the fifth time in his career Sunday.

Tigers catcher James McCann is 14-for-33 (.424) with four doubles and a home run since the All-Star break.
McCann extended his hitting streak to a career-best nine games with a two-out RBI single later in the inning to give the Tigers a three-run cushion.

Miguel Cabrera hit a BB off the left field wall in the third inning that at first looked like it might be a home run. In fact, it was merely a single after Cabrera got thrown out at second base.
Cabrera made up for it two innings later when he smacked an RBI double to score Justin Upton from first.
That was Cabrera's 2,605th hit, tying Tim Raines for 79th on the all-time list. Raines was inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on Sunday.

Tigers left-handed reliever Daniel Stumpf hasn't allowed a run since July 1, a span of 12 1/3 scoreless innings. He pitched a scoreless seventh on Sunday.

Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias reached base in all four plate appearances Sunday -- two singles and two walks. He doubled twice on Saturday.

This was the first time the Astros lost consecutive games since June 12-13, and it’s the first road series they’ve lost since June 6-8.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/astros-...Box,game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=491664
Boxscore.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/video/uptons-grand-slam/c-1668014083?tid=8877502
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers win over the astros.

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
Verlander strands bases loaded: Unlike Verlander's last meeting with the Astros in May in Houston, where a three-homer inning left him with a no-decision, his potential big inning Sunday came with two walks and a single in the second, loading the bases with two outs. With American League MVP Award candidate Jose Altuve on deck, Verlander worked ahead of rookie Derek Fisher with fastballs before getting him to ground out on a curveball, ending Houston's best threat.

Romine's running catch: The Astros didn't have much hard contact off Verlander, let alone any extra-base hits, but Brian McCann sent right fielder Andrew Romine racing to the corner on a drive to lead off the sixth. Romine ran down the ball for a lunging catch before crashing into the fence, preventing the Astros from getting a rally started.

Roars
Justin Verlander: Six shutout innings, 5 hits, 6 strikeouts, very few hard-hit balls. The only blemish on his pitching line was his three walks.
Justin Upton: He went 4-for-5 with 6 RBI, missing a home run in the sixth by about six inches but making up for it with the salami in the seventh.
Jose Iglesias: A 2-for-3 performance with two walks, two runs, and another RBI, his third in the past two games.

Hisses
Not today, friends. Not today.

Statistics and Notes.
This was the third time Dixon Machado has started and batted leadoff for the Tigers this year, and the first since June 4 against the White Sox.

Between June 2 and the start of today’s game, Mikie Mahtook has batted .341 with a .911 OPS in 131 plate appearances. He’s turning into quite a steal, it seems.

Tigers: Just after Monday's 4 p.m. ET non-waiver Trade Deadline passes,
the Tigers will open a three-city, nine-game road trip in the Bronx with a 7:05 p.m. ET game against the Yankees.
Michael Fulmer (10-8, 3.35 ERA) gets the start opposite Luis Severino in a battle of stingy young starters.
 
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With two consecutive wins over the American League's best Houston Astro's, the Tigers have doubled their chances of making the postseason, from one chance in 50 to one chance in 25.
 
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