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Game 137 Thread - Sept. 4

Stumpf in, gives up a Perez solo, 6-3.
 
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McCarthy in for royals, Kinsler battles a BoB, Presley lines out, Nicky looks, looks, swing Ks, Navarro walks, McCann grounds out w/RISP.
 
VerHagen in to pitch 8th, promptly gives up a solo homer to Escobar.

7-3

s/b enough to sew up another consecutive L for the Tigrettes.
 
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VerHagen in to pitch 8th, promptly gives up a solo homer to Escobar.

7-3

s/b enough to sew up another consecutive L for the Tigrettes.

And Nick follows the format with a home run, making it close in the bottom of the 9th. Let's see if they can break the mold and actually get a walkoff (not holding my breath, though).
 
Posted too soon, maybe, Nick C smacks a 3 run homer, 7-6 bottom 9th, one out...ooops...two outs....up to McCann...who singles.
 
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Cmon Candy!

yeah singles. RISPy
 
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Winning this one would require three or four back to back hits. It's been a long time since we saw that.
 
KC should be along sooner or later with the game wrapup.

With the close loss, Tigers record falls to 58-79, 21 games below .500. and 1 game worse than the '05 Tigers with 25 to go. They could break a tie with A's for second-worst in AL, depending upon the outcome of their game vs Angels. They also remain neck and neck with the Reds, for the 4th-worst record in MLB.

Their 733 RA is 20 runs less than the Reds, for the most given up in MLB, but with a game in hand. Considering their patchwork roto & BP, they very likely will give the Reds' pitching staff a run for most RA by season's end. 800+ is very doable. But surprisingly enough, they actually could fall short of the epic fail, "1000 RS", cellar-dweller '08 team, whose pitching staff & D gave up a whopping 857 RA.
 
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It's been a cruel weekend for Detroit Tigers outfielder Mikie Mahtook.

A day after he inadvertently swatted a home run over the left field fence, Mahtook hit a ball to almost the exact same spot.

This time Royals left fielder Alex Gordon timed his leap perfectly and reached over the fence to make the grab, robbing Mahtook of a three-run home run in the fourth inning.

The Royals beat the Tigers 7-6 Monday afternoon at Comerica Park in the opener of a three-game series.

Pitching in his first Major League game, Tigers starter Artie Lewicki escaped an ugly third inning to grind through two more scoreless frames. He allowed 11 hits, although not all were hit hard, with one walk and one strikeout.

His fastball was touted as a low-90s pitch that gets on hitters quicker than it should. Clearly, after watching him work, there is a reason for that. If Baseball Savant’s data is correct, his fastball velocity ranged from 86 to 94 mph. In the fourth inning, Royals slugger Eric Hosmer saw fastballs at 93, 87 and 86 mph.

He was adding and subtracting on his secondary pitches, as well. His slider ranged from 77 to 88, his curve ball from 75 to 80 and his change-up from 81 to 87. It’s evident he knows how to pitch. It’s worth finding out how much better he can be with more experience and a better understanding of the hitters at this level.
Unless something changes, he'll get another chance on Sunday in Toronto.

The Tigers made it interesting by scoring three in the bottom of the ninth. Nicholas Castellanos homered to right-center, and James McCann and Jeimer Candelario singled, prompting Royals manager Ned Yost to yank reliever Brandon Maurer.
Nick Castellanos is the first Tiger since Curtis Granderson in 2008 to post 20 HRs and 10 triples.

Left-hander Scott Alexander entered and induced Mahtook to ground out to end the game.

The Tigers are 0-5 since trading stars Justin Verlander and Justin Upton and have been outscored 36-11 during that span.
They have not led in any of the 45 innings of their losing streak.

NOTABLE
No starting pitcher has gone more than five innings in the five games of the post-Verlander era. Four pitchers (Buck Farmer, Jordan Zimmermann, Chad Bell and Lewicki) have allowed exactly five runs. Combined, Tigers starters have allowed 21 earned runs and 39 hits in 22 innings in the five-game span.

Lewicki recorded his first Major League strikeout (and, as it turned out, his only one of the game) against Alex Gordon to end the second inning.

Warwick Saupold was effective in one inning of relief, before Daniel Stumpf came in and gave up another run.
Drew VerHagen came on in the eighth and gave up a home run to Alcides Escobar. The bullpen appears to be running on fumes. Stinky, stinky fumes.

Blaine Hardy came on top pitch the ninth inning. He made it through unscathed with two strikeouts and only one hit.

Tigers outfielder Alex Presley had three hits on Monday after having four on Saturday. He's 10-for-22 on the current homestand.

The five-run deficit was too much for the Tigers’ thin lineup to overcome,though they came within inches of closing the gap on two occasions and fell a run short after Nick Castellanos hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.
The Tigers weren’t done: back-to-back singles with two outs put the tying run on second base, but Mikie Mahtook grounded into a game-ending forceout.

With the loss, the Tigers fall to 58-79. They are 21 games below the .500 mark for the first time since the final day of the 2003 season, in which they lost 119 games.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-...152#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=492152
Boxscore.

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
That's how you bring one back: One day after Mahtook tipped a ball over the left-field fence for a home run, Alex Gordon robbed him of a homer with a leaping catch at the same fence. Gordon reached up and over to corral Mahtook's two-out loft, stranding runners at the corners in the fourth inning.

Cain denies Iglesias: The Tigers had the potential tying run in scoring position after back-to-back sixth-inning walks off Peter Moylan and a Mahtook steal of second. Up came Jose Iglesias, whose RBI double fueled Detroit's fifth-inning rally, but Lorenzo Cain's charge in from center gave him the split-second he needed to slide in on Iglesias' sinking liner for a lead-preserving catch. Iglesias was two-thirds of the way down the line, and he flipped his helmet in frustration.
 
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Top 2 for sure. Prince Fielder is in the running as well.

I liked this from the article...trade value...LOL

Given his future salary ? and with the Tigers entering a rebuilding phase, also to rebuild his potential trade value ? the team would be wise to do whatever it takes to get Zimmermann back to full health.

Zimmermann, 31, is 17-19 with a 5.42 ERA and 1.47 WHIP in 46 games ? 45 starts ? with the Tigers.
 
I don't seem to remember anyone calling it a bad signing at the time that we signed him.
 
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