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Game 80 Tigers vs. indians July 1, 2017

It was gonna be tough to take two from the indians in one day.

3 more innings....

Anyone else have the game with the Fox crew and Jon Morosi?
 
I listened to 1 inning and wanted to drill my ears out with a black and Decker drill and cork them with hot asphalt.
 
Zimmermann was nearly perfect through five innings, not allowing a runner to reach second base.
But things unraveled quickly in the sixth. The Indians took a 2-1 lead on a bloop single by Edwin Encarnacion. On the very next pitch, Jose Ramirez blasted a home run to right field.
Just like that, Zimmermann's day was done.

The Tigers' bullpen held the Indians in check the rest of the way, but the Tigers were unable to mount a comeback against Cleveland starter Carlos Carrasco and the Tribe bullpen.

NOTABLE:
Benches emptied in the fifth inning but there were no more hijinks Saturday night after umpires warned both sides about further retaliation.

Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias was hit by Indians starter Carlos Carrasco;
in the next half-inning, Indians first baseman Carlos Santana was hit by Zimmermann.

The Tigers got on the board first in Game 2 when Mikie Mahtook hit a check-swing single to score Nicholas Castellanos in the second inning.

That was the game's only scoring until the Indians' four-run eruption in the sixth.

Mahtook went 4-for-7 in Saturday's doubleheader. Since June 1, he's 21-for-58 (.362) with three doubles, a triple and two home runs (but no walks).

Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor is now 0-for-5 with four strikeouts against Zimmermann in his career.

It was a first-pitch fastball behind the back, 93 m.p.h. from Jordan Zimmermann, accidentally on purpose, and when it grazed Carlos Santana?s back, it got his attention.
Surely, the Detroit Tigers right-hander will say, it was one that got away from him.
But after two teammates were hit in the opener of today's doubleheader against the Indians and a third ? Jose Iglesias ? was hit half an inning earlier, perhaps it was one Zimmermann wanted to get away from him.
Santana barked, Zimmermann stayed silent and players crept towards the infield while the umpiring crew held order. The dugouts partially cleared and the bullpens barely emptied onto the field.
But if it was a message from Zimmermann that the Tigers are in fact, still here, then it was followed by a statement from the Indians that they are, indeed, still the class of the AL Central Division.


ROARS:
Those uniforms. Love the Detroit Stars Negro League throwbacks.
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/lG1...loads/chorus_asset/file/8785799/805424818.jpg

Mikie Mahtook with two hits and the first RBI of the game, showing some real hustle in the latter half of the month.

Minnie Forbes, the former Detroit Stars owner, who was in the audience and talked to Jon Morosi about how she once played third base for the Kansas City Monarchs. Awesome.

HISSES:
Hits by pitch. Three times over two games, Tigers pitchers got hit by pitches (none seemed intentional).
James McCann was hit twice in the first game but both Josh Tomlin and Zach McAllister.
Then in game two, Jose Iglesias was hit by a pitch from Carlos Carrasco.
Jordan Zimmermann felt differently about the hit by pitch on Iglesias, because he threw behind on Carlos Santana and the results were slow.

Carlos Carrasco?s slider. Terrible. Struck out seven Tigers, allowed only one run. Nasty stuff.

The home run was Zimmermann?s 21st allowed this season in 92 innings this season, second-most in the AL.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/indians...nal,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=491311
Boxscore.

The Tigers are back among baseball?s more depressed teams, from a standings perspective, as they take a 36-44 record and their fourth-place status into Sunday?s series finale against the Indians.
Justin Verlander will work against Mike Clevinger in a 1:10 p.m.
 
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