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Game 129, DET vs CHW 27 August 2017

Kinsler with a homerun in the 8th,

5 - 1,

whites sox announcers still suck even without Hawk Harrelson.

Victor Martinez is back on the DL for a second time with an irregular heartbeat.
Stayed in a Chicago hospital overnight and then was driven back to Detroit.
imo he might have to retire.
 
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You really have to wonder about the quality of coaching with this team. So many things just aren't done properly, and the general attitude just looks bad.
 
You really have to wonder about the quality of coaching with this team. So many things just aren't done properly, and the general attitude just looks bad.

Everything sucks Nydo, from the front office with Al Avila, second in command David Chadd who was dumped years ago by boston, Dave Littlefield who was dumped by Pittsburgh and they had a party when they canned him, player development Dave Owens, Scott Pleis, these guys suck in scouting, drafting, advance scouting of upcoming teams, then you have Ausmus, yeah the argument is the players he has, and even with the Tigers stars and scrubs concept, they don't play with that extra that the eyes see, I think they do what they can, little more, and have tuned Ausmus out, maybe a long time ago.
Starting pitching outside of Verlander and Fulmer, who both can have hiccups and lack of run support when they pitch, Fulmer's numbness/tingling in his pitching hand, the psychological weight of being possibly traded on Verlander's mind, Zimmermann is a bust in the end of year two, and Beavis Norris and Boyd, can't find the plate half the time, and Boyd has trouble pitching from the stretch. and 2 words to describe the bullpen for another year, dumpster fire.

Miggy hurt since before the start of the season, Victor's aging and now his second time on the DL for an irregular heart beat.
I can't help but think, what if he got into the middle of those fights with the skankees, God forbid if he got that during a brawl.

We saw about a 10 year run of success, and now with a front office that is being run like Moe, Larry, and Curly are there,
I don't see much improvement for what will be on the field for the next few years.
 
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The curious case of Matthew Boyd plays on.
Boyd at times looked like the second coming of Cliff Lee Sunday. He was working quickly, assuredly, attacking the strike zone with a variety of pitches, including a fastball that hit 95 mph and breaking ball that floated in at 74.

He breezed through the first two innings, throwing 31 pitches, 22 strikes, with three strikeouts and eight swings and misses.

Detroit Tigers starter Matthew Boyd had almost escaped an ugly third inning with limited damage when Chicago White Sox third baseman Matt Davidson launched a two-out, three-run home run on a 3-2 count.

The White Sox scored five off Boyd in the third and beat the Tigers 7-1 Sunday afternoon at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Other than the third, Boyd threw five scoreless innings. In total, he allowed five runs on seven hits with one walk and seven strikeouts over six innings. After struggling so mightily recently, the outing likely earned him another start.

White Sox starter Lucas Giolito was rarely threatened by the Tigers until the seventh. There was no such vagary in the performance of White Sox rookie right-hander Lucas Giolito. He was dominant, blanking the Tigers on three hits for seven innings.

Mikie Mahtook snapped an 0-for-21 skid with a triple in the second inning. JaCoby Jones, just recalled from Toledo, slapped a single and then was caught stealing in the third.

The Tigers loaded the bases and shortstop Jose Iglesias lifted a high fly ball down the left field line that third base umpire Nick Mahrley initially ruled a home run (and, thus, a grand slam). But the Tigers celebrated tepidly, knowing the call would be overturned. Sure enough, the umpires huddled and ruled the ball fair. The Tigers didn't even put up a mild protest. Iglesias then grounded out to end the inning.

Ian Kinsler hit his 14th home run of the season the next inning.

NOTABLE
Boyd has been vexed by the third inning this year, allowing 31 earned runs in 17 innings (16.41 ERA).
In all other innings combined, he's allowed 38 earned runs in 81 1/3 innings for an ERA of 4.20.

Rookie right-hander Zac Reininger, who started the season in High-A Lakeland, made his Major-League debut in the eighth inning. It didn?t go as he might?ve dreamed. He allowed three singles, a walk and two runs ? singles by Jose Abreu and Garcia, a sacrifice fly by Kevan Smith and an RBI single by Yolmer Sanchez.
He ended the inning by getting Adam Engel looking.

The Tigers' offense was quieted by Lucas Giolito, who was making his second MLB start this season.

The Tigers are 3-12-4 in their last 19 road series.
With the loss, the Tigers are 56-73.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...041#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=492041
Boxscore.

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
"Matty D" > "Matty B": The battle between the "Matty-" based Player's Weekend nicknames came to a head in the third inning. With a pair on and two runs already across and two outs, White Sox third baseman Matt Davidson took a 3-2, 92.6-mph fastball from Boyd deep to right field for a three-run homer. The shot, which left the yard at 104.5 mph and traveled 403 feet, according to Statcast?, was Davidson's first home run since a right wrist injury sent him to the DL at the beginning of August. Davidson now has 23 homers in his rookie season.

Juuuust Foul: After a pair of walks and a single loaded the bases with two outs for the Tigers against Giolito in the seventh, Jose Iglesias appeared to have hit a grand slam down the left-field line that would have cut the deficit to 5-4 and likely knocked the White Sox rookie out of the game. However, after third-base umpire Nick Mahrley initially ruled that Iglesias' batted ball went fair, first-base umpire and crew chief Jim Reynolds summoned the umpires. The group conferred, and the call was overturned without a review. Iglesias would ground out to end the inning and keep it 5-0.

ROARS:
Mikie Mahtook - one of the only Tigers to get on base early in the game, he managed both a triple and a walk.

John Hicks - kept things interesting into the ninth, and another player with a multi-hit night.

HISSES:
Matt Boyd - not great.

Foul poles. Boo.

STREAKS & INFO:
Not an ideal streak to be on, for John Hicks. Second HBP in four days.

As for Kinsler?s HR, it continues an interesting trend for the second baseman.
Pretty insane all 14 of Kinsler's HRs are solo. I wonder if a player has finished the season with 15+ HRs in which all were solo shots?
 
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