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Game 148 Tigers vs white sux Saturday Sept 16 2017 6:10 pm EST

Its like a continuous trainwreck with this team...pausing only for pitching changes.
 
Tigers just want to get this ugly game over with ASAP...but the sux don't.
 
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sux have had a shitload of LOB during this game, or else the score would be 20+ to 4 now in the bottom 9th.
 
With a loss tomorrow, Tigers would fall into a tie for last in the ALCD, and a tie for having the 3rd worst record in MLB. Something that I couldn't envision a month ago.
 
After the Detroit Tigers' crisp pitching performance on Friday, it was back to normal on Saturday night.
The new normal.

Five Tigers pitchers combined to allow 10 runs on 17 hits. They walked six and struck out only four in the Chicago White Sox 10-4 victory at Comerica Park.

It was the sixth time this month that the Tigers had allowed 10 or more runs. They're now 3-13 in September and have been outscored 115-54.

Tigers starter Myles Jaye couldn't make it out of the second inning, allowing six runs (five earned) on five hits. Jaye's next scheduled start is Thursday against Minnesota, but he could be bumped to the bullpen if Jordan Zimmermann is ready to return.

Blaine Hardy (one run, five hits, two innings), Joe Jimenez (one run, one hit, two walks, 1 1/3 innings), Daniel Norris (two runs, four hits, two walks, three innings) and Zac Reininger (two hits, one inning) each pitched in relief for the Tigers.

NOTABLE
Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera left the game in the fifth inning with what the team called lower back tightness. He's day to day.
John Hicks entered the game in his place.
Cabrera has been periodically bothered by back problems since March.

James McCann went 3-for-4 on Saturday, including a two-run triple in the second inning. It was his first three-bagger since June 3, 2016.
Since July 1, McCann is hitting .320 (56-for-175) with eight doubles, a triple and five home runs.

Mikie Mahtook had another RBI triple two innings later. His came after an incredible 14-pitch at-bat in the fourth inning.

Tigers right fielder Nicholas Castellanos doubled in the second to extend his career-long 13-game hitting streak.

Roars
James McCann: A triple, a double, and a pair of runs driven in will get you a roar.

Jeimer Candelario: Singled, walked twice and scored a pair of runs, and continued to impress with the consistent quality of his plate appearances.

Nicholas Castellanos: Had a double to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. And look at the picture heading this article. That was a pretty good running catch down the right field line.

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
Delmonico rib-eyes: Jaye retired the first two batters in both of his innings before succumbing to a half-dozen two-out runs. The first two of them came after Jose Abreu's walk on a 3-2 pitch brought up Delmonico, who turned on a first-pitch fastball and laced a 106.7 mph liner just over the right-field fence for a 2-0 lead in the first.

Fourteen pitches, one big hit: Lopez had an 0-2 count on Mikie Mahtook in the fourth inning and was a pitch away from stranding a leadoff runner at first base. Instead, Mahtook took a couple close pitches for balls and fouled off eight others to keep his at-bat alive before sending a line drive into the gap in right-center field, scoring Jeimer Candelario from first base to cut Chicago's lead to 7-4.

Hisses
Just the whole pitching staff. All of them. C?mon man!!

Notes
Miguel Cabrera left the game in the fifth inning with lower back tightness.

The announced attendance was 29,846.

The Tigers (61-87) have lost six of their last seven games.

When the Tigers are evaluating players for next season, one of the boxes that needs to be checked is competitiveness.
Mikie Mahtook ? check. Check-plus.
After slapping the winning single Friday night, Mahtook engaged Chicago White Sox right-hander Reynaldo Lopez in an epic 14-pitch at-bat in the fourth inning, the highlight of the Tigers? 10-4 loss Saturday.

Jeimer Candelario was on first with two outs. The Tigers trailed 7-3 at that point and Mahtook fell quickly into an 0-2 hole. He pushed his helmet tighter on his head, kicked dirt off his spikes and dug back in. His fight was just beginning.

He took a fastball for ball one, then fouled off a change-up at 85 mph and a fastball at 97. He barely got a piece of a curveball at 78 mph, fouled off a fastball at 95 and another change-up at 85.
The ninth pitch of the at-bat, another change-up, he took for ball two. He fought off two 96-mph fastballs and took another one just off the plate for ball three. Lopez took several steps toward umpire Brian Gorman ? he thought he?d won the battle.

Mahtook, though, was still alive. After fouling off a change-up ? his eighth foul ball with two strikes ? he barreled up the 14th pitch, a 95-mph fastball, and lined it in the right-center field gap for an RBI triple.

The crowd was on its feet as Mahtook dove Superman-style into third base. It was a thrilling at-bat and after the inning Mahtook got atta-boy high-fives from manager Brad Ausmus and hitting coach Lloyd McClendon.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/white-s...314#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=492314
Boxscore.

They wrap up their four-game series with the White Sox (60-88) on Sunday (1:10 p.m., Fox Sports Detroit).
 
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