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Cabrera's two-run homer Friday was the 374th of his career, tying him with former Tiger Rocky Colavito for 72nd on Major League Baseball's all-time list.

Colavito hit 139 of his home runs in a Detroit uniform from 1960-63.
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2014/06/tigers_mariners_drew_smyly.html
Mariners 3 - Tigers 2: Miguel Cabrera hits home run; Drew Smyly, offense struggle in loss to Seattle.
Mlive

http://www.freep.com/article/20140531/SPORTS02/305310117/detroit-tigers-seattle-mariners-thread
Tigers come up short in Seattle.
freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...loss-Mariners?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports
Tigers bats run short of juice in loss to Mariners.
detnews

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/inde...014_05_31_detmlb_seamlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det
Miggy homers, Smyly exits early in loss to Mariners.
Lefty throw 105 pitches over four innings; Cabrera hits solo shot.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/inde...d=det#gid=2014_05_31_detmlb_seamlb_1&mode=box
Boxscore.
from the Tigers official site

http://m.mlb.com/video/v33342999/detsea-miggy-launches-a-solo-homer-to-left
Webvideo Miggy's Homerun.
 
June 1 in Tigers history:

1906 - Women appear at the Polo Grounds ticket windows for the first time. Coincidentally, new ticket-selling machines are also introduced.

1925 - Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees pinch-hits for Pee Wee Wanninger, beginning his streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games. The next day, first baseman Wally Pipp shows up with the after-effects of a concussion, and Gehrig takes over.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mallohe01.shtml
Herm Malloy 1907-1908.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jo-Jo_White
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/whitejo01.shtml
Jo Jo White 1932-1938.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chancde01.shtml
Dean Chance 1971.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Johnny_Hopp
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hoppjo01.shtml
Johnny Hopp 1952, coach 1954.

from baseball reference
 
Mariners 3 - Tigers 2 ? With Robby Cano sitting out again, Seattle got just 8 singles and a walk, but a pair of 2-out ribby knocks by his replacement, f'n Willie Bloomquist?? made the difference. Detroit went hitless in six chances with RISP, thanks to some fine outfield defense by Cole Gillespie and Endy Chavez that stopped potential extra-baggers. Gillespie added two hits and his first RBI, and Fernando Rodney settled in to notch the save after letting the first two men reach safely.

Chris Young won for the 5th time in his last 7 starts. He hadn?t given up a hit with one out in the 4th, but he made the mistake of getting two quick strikes on Miguel Cabrera, who homered on the next pitch.
Miggy?s 7 for 18 on 0-2 counts this year, with 2 HRs, 2 doubles. (He?s also 11 for 27 on 0-1 counts, and hitting .356 overall when behind in the count.)

Andrew Romine doubled, reaching 9 for his last 29, with 3 extra-base hits. I?m getting this note in now, because such a streak may never come again.

Drew Smyly gave up just 3 runs, but used 105 pitches on just 20 batters in just 4 innings. First time ever for that combination ? Pitches>=105, BF<=20, R<=3, IP<=4 ? with pitch data going back to 1988.

Miggy in Safeco: 34 for 100, 6 HRs, 20 RBI in 24 games.
from HighHeatStats
 
Victor Martinez's last 162 games:
25 HR, 93 RBI
.337/.393/.525
59 BB, 49 K <----- wow!
40 doubles, 80 runs
 
Reed shows better stuff out of bullpen.
What could've been another rough night for the Tigers bullpen to cover innings became manageable Saturday thanks in large part to Evan Reed, whose struggles last week against the Indians and Rangers led to more work for others.

Pitching on five days' rest once Drew Smyly lasted just four innings, Reed faced the minimum six batters over the fifth and sixth innings, erasing Justin Smoak's fifth-inning single with a Kyle Seager double play.

Reed threw first-pitch strikes to all six batters he faced, and put four of them into 0-2 counts. He ended his outing with back-to-back strikeouts, fanning John Buck on a 1-2 slider before he caught Cole Gillespie watching the same pitch.

Ausmus said Reed has been working with pitching coach Jeff Jones on raising his front arm in his delivery to hide the ball better before he releases it.

"It seems like he's creating more deception on the ball," Ausmus said Sunday morning. "That's what I'm seeing the last two outings, definitely."
from the Tigers official site
 
Cabrera completes impressive comeback month.
For Miguel Cabrera, those April showers eventually brought May power.

Even by the two-time reigning AL MVP's standards, the final numbers from this past month were impressive. Considering where he stood at the end of April, they constituted a bounce back.

Cabrera's .380 (41-for-108) average was his highest ever for May, barely beating out his .379 May last year. Likewise, his solo homer Saturday night pushed him to 34 RBIs for May, his most ever for any calendar month, and the most by a Tiger in May since Damion Easley drove in 34 runs in May 1998.

Nobody in the American League drove in as many runs over the past month, including Baltimore's Nelson Cruz and Toronto's Edwin Encarnacion. Both of them topped Cabrera for home runs.

Compare May to Cabrera's April and the numbers look like they belong to different hitters. Cabrera batted .277 in the season's opening month with two home runs, 15 RBIs and a .735 OPS. He was getting back to regular-season work after core-muscle surgery over the offseason, but he was also frustrated with his swing and approach, leading to extra work with hitting coach Wally Joyner.

Even Ausmus chipped in, throwing early batting practice to Cabrera at times during the month.
"I've said it from the get-go: I'm not worried about Miggy," Ausmus said a couple weeks ago.

Cabrera drove in a run in 19 out of 29 games for the month, and plated multiple runs 11 times.
from the Tigers official site
 
Romine frustrated over bunt attempt.
The frustration was still evident in Andrew Romine's voice Sunday morning.
"I have to get that bunt down," Romine said, referring to Saturday night's ninth inning.

He knows a big part of his role involves being able to bunt runners over. He also knows that bunting a runner over against a closer is a different task than bunting in nearly any other inning, but it's his job.

In Saturday's case, he might have fallen victim to the challenge of bunting against former Tiger and current M's closer Fernando Rodney. The key to Rodney's success has always been the deceptiveness of his fastball-changeup combination. In a bunting situation, however, Rodney ditched the offspeed pitch and went all fastballs until Romine had two strikes and risked striking out with one more fouled bunt.

Romine missed a 91-mph fastball on the outside corner for strike one. He let a second-pitch fastball miss low for ball one, but ended up offering at a fastball on the next pitch. That one rose out of the strike zone, a pitch that bunters usually either miss entirely or pop up. In Romine's case, he got it down, but foul.

With two strikes and the bunt sign clearly off, Rodney went back to his changeup, sending Romine swinging and missing for the first out of the inning.

"The hardest pitch to bunt is a four-seam fastball up at 95," manager Brad Ausmus said. "That being said, we have to get the job done. We have to get the bunt down. But I'm not saying it's a given."

Romine was a bunting standout with the Angels last season, going 6-for-16 in sacrifice attempts. He had eight productive outs in 16 situations last season, either laying down a sacrifice bunt with one out, advancing a runner with nobody out, or driving in a run with the second out of an inning. He is 11-for-20 in his career.

He's 1-for-11 in productive out opportunities this season, though he has a bunt single and a sacrifice on the sac bunt attempts he has gotten down.
from the Tigers official site
 
Joel Hanrahan is scheduled to resume throwing off a mound this coming week, according to Ausmus. It's expected to be an all-fastballs session. Hanrahan, who signed with the Tigers almost exactly a month ago, has spent the past couple weeks building arm strength with long tossing and other workouts.
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2014/06/tigers_mariners_max_scherzer.html
Mariners 4 - Tigers 0: Detroit shut out on three hits by rookie left-hander Roenis Elias.
Mlive

http://www.freep.com/article/20140601/SPORTS02/306010113/detroit-tigers-seattle-mariners-game-thread
Seattle 4 - Detroit 0: Tigers shut out by Mariners in final game of West Coast swing.
freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...e-bats-muffled-by-Mariners-again-shutout-loss
Road-weary Tigers see bats muffled by Mariners again in shutout loss.
detnews

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/inde...014_06_01_detmlb_seamlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det
Tigers finish West Coast swing with shutout loss.
Scherzer allows four runs in 6 2/3 innings as Detroit goes 3-4 on trip.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/inde...d=det#gid=2014_06_01_detmlb_seamlb_1&mode=box
Boxscore.
from the Tigers official site
 
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