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Game 115 Tigers vs. twins August 11, 2017

The worst part is it will only get worse before it gets better. We might have a good chunk of years of bad baseball headed our way.

well then sheeeeeeeeiiitttee I sure hope the Lions will finally start to be winners more so than losers in the coming years then.
 
Five days after giving up five home runs in three innings, Sanchez allowed two more in the Detroit Tigers' 9-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins Friday night at Comerica Park.
The Tigers right-hander now has allowed more homers (21) than walks (20) this season.
Sanchez has given up 13 runs on 18 hits -- seven home runs -- over his last nine innings. He gave up eight runs on 10 hits in just three innings of a 12-3 loss at Baltimore on Aug. 6. Sanchez has lost three of his last four starts.

When he began the year as a reliever, he was tagged for nine dingers in 21 innings (3.86 home runs per nine). Then he went to Triple-A Toledo in May to work back to a starting role, one he'd worked in almost exclusively for his previous 11 big league seasons. He emerged in Detroit a month later, allowing just one home run in his first four starts.
Now he's back to where he started, with 11 homers allowed in his past six outings. Sanchez walked none and threw 60 of his 91 pitches for strikes (65.9 percent).

The Tigers were down by only three in the eighth when pinch-hitter John Hicks came to the plate with two on and one out. But his line drive to deep right was caught and Nicholas Castellanos was thrown out at third after a late tag-up. Castellanos explained that he thought he?d left early, so he went back to tag up again.
Ausmus said he didn?t understand what Castellanos was doing and couldn?t defend his player in that situation.

NOTABLE

After a nine-pitch at-bat in the first inning, Tigers center fielder Mikie Mahtook hit a 3-2 pitch to left field for his eighth home run of the season. Mahtook also homered on Thursday.
He has gotten a hit in 20 of his 25 starts since the All-Star break. He's gotten at least two hits in 10 games, including six of his last seven.

It's been this kind of season for Miguel Cabrera.
He drilled a deep liner to center field in the fourth inning that got Twins center fielder Byron Buxton turned around. But Buxton quickly recovered to make an incredible diving catch.
Cabrera's exit velocity clocked in at 109.2 mph, his ninth-hardest hit ball of the season.

The Tigers had two chances to come back late, but Cabrera left two runners on base in consecutive at-bats in the fifth and seventh innings. In the fifth, he popped out to shallow right. In the seventh, the inning ended when he grounded weakly to third base.

Tigers reliever Daniel Stumpf saw his streak of 13 1/3 consecutive scoreless innings snapped in the seventh inning.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/twins-v...828#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=491828
Boxscore.

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
Buxton with turnaround catch: Miguel Cabrera delivered one of the hardest-hit line drives of his struggling second half, a 109-mph liner that turned Byron Buxton around in deep center. Buxton not only recovered, however, but he ran down the drive for a diving catch just in front of the warning track for the second out of the fourth inning.

Roars
Mikie Mahtook hit his eighth dinger of the season in the first inning.

Hisses
Anibal Sanchez threw 40 pitches between the fourth and fifth innings and gave up two home runs in that period. He had a final line of six innings, eight hits, five runs, and six strikeouts on 90 pitches (61 strikes).

Stats and stuff
Sanchez entered the game with an ERA of 6.62. It is now up to 6.69. But he actually actually lowered it over the course of the game -- at one point it was up to 6.78.

Minnesota has won six games in a row.
The Tigers? season record against the Twins is 6-4.

Ausmus announced after the game that outfielder Jim Adduci was sent back to Triple-A Toledo. Outfielder Alex Presley was recalled from his rehab assignment in Toledo.
 
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