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Game 147 Tigers vs whte sux Friday Sept 15 2017

Overall how has clownanos looked in right field I haven't really seen much of the games since he's been out there but just saw that fly out to him and didn't think it looked too smooth
 
New Mexico made miggy look like a chump, terrible strike three call though
 
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1 down, 2 to go. and avoid losing 100.

baby-steps.
 
Look around the Detroit Tigers? clubhouse these days and you will see a lot of young players. Out of contention this season, with a rebuilding, likely for the next few seasons, that has begun, it?s hard to equate the final two weeks of the regular season to much more than a September spring training.

But there are a couple veterans in there. And one in particular, Anibal Sanchez, is pitching for a job next season.

It likely won?t be with the Tigers, who would need to spend $16 million on him. But Sanchez knows there are eyeballs on him as teams begin to evaluate this winter?s free agent class.

Against a White Sox team that pounded out 17 runs and 25 hits on Thursday and was hitting .387 as a team over the last six games, Sanchez killed them softly. Killed them with pinpoint command of his entire multi-pitch repertoire, by mixing speeds and using all four quadrants of the plate.

He threw four different fastballs, all out of the same arm slot and all with different speed and movement ? a four-seamer at 91-92 mph, two-seam sinker at 91, cutter at 90 and split-fingered fastball, which acted more like a change-up, at 83.

Of his 17 swings and misses, seven came on the split. Of his 19 called strikes, eight came on his four-seam. One was setting up the other, and with his slow curve, change-up and slider mixed in, he kept the White Sox hitters off balance.

Detroit Tigers got the first quality start and the first walk-off win of the post-Justinian era Friday night at Comerica Park.

Starter Anibal Sanchez struck out a season-high 11 batters and Mikie Mahtook drove home the winning run with a single in the ninth as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 win.

?When your starting pitcher has a performance like that,? catcher James McCann said, ?you?ve got to find a way to win.?

The Tigers did, in walk-off fashion. In the bottom of the ninth, Mikie Mahtook, in his first game back since Sept. 8, punched a two-out single up the middle scoring Jeimer Candelario from third and giving the Tigers a 3-2 win.

The Tigers snapped a six-game losing streak and won for just the third time since trading Verlander and Justin Upton on Aug. 31.

Verlander had the Tigers' last quality start on Aug. 30; It was Mahtook?s first career walk-off since Upton's home run on Aug. 12 gave the Tigers their last walk-off win.

NOTABLE
Nicholas Castellanos extended his career-high hitting streak to 12 games with an RBI single in the fourth inning that scored Alex Presley for the Tigers' first run of the game.

Collins' home run was his first since May 17, when he broke an 0-for-30 slump by homering twice off the Orioles' Ubaldo Jimenez.

Sanchez has recorded 10 or more strikeouts 14 times in his career.

Tigers utility man Andrew Romine was selected as the Tigers' nominee for the 2017 Marvin Miller Man of the Year award, which goes to the player "whose on-field performance and contributions to his community most inspire others to higher levels of achievement."

Detroit?s bullpen did better than expected... at least the first two pitchers to come out in relief. Drew VerHagen and Daniel Stumpf combined to face and retire four batters between them.

Alex Wilson came into the game in the eighth inning with one out. He drilled Jose Abreu in the hand with his second pitch of the evening, then Avisail Garcia reached on an infield hit. Wilson got a second out, but manager Brad Ausmus decided to go to Shane Greene for a four-out save attempt.

Shane Greene blew his first save chance as Tigers closer.
Faced with a four-out opportunity, Greene allowed a seeing-eye, RBI single to Matt Davidson with two outs in the eighth inning.
Then came Mikie Mahtook's walk-off single in the ninth.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/video/mahtooks-walk-off-single/c-1834666783?tid=8877502
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers win over the whitesox.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/white-s...299#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=492299
Boxscore.

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
Timely Tyler: Collins hadn't gone deep for the Tigers since a two-homer game against the O's on May 17, and wasn't called back to the big leagues until they were running low on healthy outfielders last week. But after striking out in his first two at-bats, he sent a first-pitch fastball from Gregory Infante out to right field for a 2-1 lead in the seventh.

QUOTABLE
"[Mahtook] grinded it out. There were a couple balls in the dirt. He laid off a tough breaking ball, just missed a breaking ball in the middle of the plate. Then he got the last shot up the middle and the game was over. It was a good at-bat. Really, that whole last inning, there were good at-bats for us." -- Tigers manager Brad Ausmus.

Friday's win leaves the season series at 9-8 in favor of the White Sox, with two games remaining. The White Sox haven't won a season series against the Tigers since 2008, when they won 12 of 18. They split the 2009 series, 9-9, before Detroit went 79-51 against Chicago from 2010 to 2016.
 
Overall how has clownanos looked in right field I haven't really seen much of the games since he's been out there but just saw that fly out to him and didn't think it looked too smooth


He has been awkward out there that is for sure. He spent all of 2013 in LF and the reviews from that year was not all that good.
 
He has been awkward out there that is for sure. He spent all of 2013 in LF and the reviews from that year was not all that good.

Not sure if it's like little league where they hide the bad defense in RF. Any time of spray chart or something that says what position gets how many balls in play during a season?
 
His bat has been more than adequate out there and I haven't seen him misplay anything.
 
He has been awkward out there that is for sure. He spent all of 2013 in LF and the reviews from that year was not all that good.


He was 21 in his first year ever playing left field and had 3 errors in 130 games. Just stop

3rd base he was for shit. OF he's fine.
 
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