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Torii targeting weekend for full-time return.
DETROIT -- Torii Hunter took batting practice on the field Thursday morning, and manager Brad Ausmus wasn't ruling out the possibility of having him available to pinch-hit. His return to full action, however, will wait.
"Hopefully sometime during the weekend," said Hunter, who indicated he was aiming for Saturday or Sunday in Cleveland.

Ausmus has publicly kept his timetable as day to day, but indicated the weekend set against the Indians is the goal.
"He felt better today," Ausmus said after the Tigers' 2-1 win over the Royals on Thursday. "He took batting practice on the field, did some agility drills out in the outfield today, so things are moving in the right direction. We're hoping we can get him back, maybe in a pinch-hit role [Friday], game on Saturday."

Hunter's left hamstring tightened up on him running out of the batter's box on a base hit Monday night. However, he said the injury dates back to Sunday, when he went from first to third on a dropped fly ball in the ninth inning.

For that reason, while Hunter wants to get back as soon as possible, he also wants to ward off making the injury any worse than he already has.

Hunter's patience has been helped by the emergence of J.D. Martinez, who homered three times over the just-finished four-game series against the Royals. Martinez will start in right field as long as Hunter is out, but once Hunter returns, Ausmus has given every indication that Martinez will play as long as he hits.

"I mean, if J.D.'s swinging the bat well, we've gotta continue to put him in there," Ausmus said. "We'll see how Torii is."
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V-Mart, Avila demonstrate trick to thwart shift.
"I did like to see it, try to make something happen," said Brad Ausmus.
DETROIT -- Tigers manager Brad Ausmus has said for a while that the recent trend toward aggressive infield shifts would soon have a countertrend. The sight of Victor Martinez and Alex Avila both laying down bunts against the shift Wednesday suggests the counter has arrived.

Both bunts came on the first pitch leading off an inning, when the priority was simply to get on base. Both bunts went foul, though Martinez's second-inning attempt rolled for a while before finally veering to the wrong side of the foul line. Avila's fifth-inning try was clearly foul off the bat. Neither ball had a defender in the neighborhood when it rolled foul.

"I did like to see it, try to make something happen," Ausmus said. "I've said that the shifts have kind of gotten out of hand, and I think you have to counteract them. We haven't actually talked to Victor about it, but we've talked with Alex about it. Alex has even come out and practiced it.

"Shoot, if you're leading off an inning and they're going to give you that, take it. Get on base, because we need baserunners. The only way you can score is if you can get on base."

Neither hitter tried to bunt again, though Avila didn't rule out the possibility of bunting on a second pitch or later.

"A lot of teams, to defend against that for guys that they shift on, they move a guy up," Avila said. "And then after a strike, they move them back."
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June 20th in Tigers history:

1911: Ty Cobb breaks the American League hitting streak record with an infield single against Cleveland's Willie Mitchell. It is Cobb's 30th straight game with a hit. He adds two stolen bases to help Detroit win 8 - 3.

1914: The Tigers lose the services of Ty Cobb when he breaks his thumb in a fight with a butcher's clerk. Cobb will be out until August 13th.

1934: The Tigers score three in the 11th to defeat the Senators 13 - 10. Ex-Tiger Heinie Manush, leading the American League in hitting, has four hits and two homers as Washington collects 17 hits. The Tigers get three-hit efforts each from Marv Owen, Mickey Cochrane, Charlie Gehringer and Hank Greenberg who also includes a homer. Elden Auker is the winner over Tommy Thomas.

1956 - At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles two Billy Hoeft pitches into the right CF bleachers, something no other player had done since the bleachers were built in the late 1930s. New York wins, 7 - 4.

1961 - Al Kaline plays 3B for the first time in his career. His two hits and two RBIs lead the Tigers to a 5 - 4 win over the Senators. Kaline will return to his customary spot in RF where he is already known as the pre-eminent rightfielder in the history of the AL and play 3B just once more in his career in 1965.

1965: In the opener of two in Kansas City, the Tigers rally from an 8-run deficit in the 2nd inning to win 12 - 8. Al Kaline collects his 1,000th RBI with a 2-run single. Detroit loses the 2nd game to snap their 8-game win streak.

1984: At Detroit, Yankee reliever Jose Rijo falls to 1-7 when he serves up a 2-out three-run homer to Howard Johnson in the 13th inning. Detroit wins 9 - 6. Alan Trammell, Lance Parrish and Chet Lemon also hit homers for the Tigers, who draw their 3rd straight 40,000+ crowd.

1994: In a defeat to the Indians, the Tigers' string of 25 straight games of hitting a home run ends. The streak tied the major league record set by the 1941 New York Yankees.

2000 - Seven different Tigers hit homers in Detroit?s 18-6 rout of the Blue Jays at Toronto?s SkyDome. The homers come from Juan Encarnacion, Tony Clark (2), Juan Gonzalez, Bobby Higginson, Deivi Cruz, Robert Fick, and Rich Becker. It?s just the fourth time in MLB history that as many as seven players hit homers in a game for one team.

2007 - Magglio Ordonez goes 3-for-4 in the Tigers victory over the Nationals to push his batting average to .383, his high point in an incredible season. Ordonez will finish at .363 to win the batting title, and his 54 doubles also leads the American League.


Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Win_Mercer
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mercewi01.shtml
Win Mercer 1902.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jim_Delahanty
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/delahji01.shtml
Jim Delahanty 1909-1912.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/grovech01.shtml
Charlie Grover 1913.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bakopa01.shtml
Paul Bako 1998.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/seaybo01.shtml
Bobby Seay 2006-2009.

from baseball reference
 
Joe Nathan Thursday: 15 pitches, 5 swings & misses.
Joe Nathan, previous 5 outings: 108 pitches, 5 swings & misses.
 
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