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Romine makes appearance on mound vs. Twins.
The Tigers' pitching staff took a beating Friday night in the 20-6 loss to the Twins, but at least their eighth-inning man had an acceptable excuse for allowing three runs on four hits in one frame.
That's because their eighth-inning man was shortstop Andrew Romine.

With the Tigers trailing 17-6 entering the bottom of the eighth, manager Brad Ausmus called upon Romine, who had never pitched an inning in either the Majors or Minors.

"He took one for the team," Ausmus said. "He picked us up, really. Didn't really matter how he pitched, we just were hoping that he could get through three outs without an injury or overextending himself."

Romine, who threw 27 pitches -- 15 of them strikes, saved the Tigers' bullpen a bit, but in the process served up back-to-back homers to Oswaldo Arcia and Trevor Plouffe after surrendering a leadoff double.

But the Twins couldn't get anything else across on him, and he even picked up his first big league strikeout, getting Kurt Suzuki looking for the first out.
Tigers official site
 
Dombrowski: No options elsewhere outside of roster.
Tigers president/general manager Dave Dombrowski's assessment of their August trade market might well have doubled as a message for his struggling hitters: If Detroit's offense is going to turn around, it's going to have to come from the guys they have now.

"Our guys have to hit better," Dombrowski said Friday afternoon from Target Field ahead of the Tigers' series opener against the Twins. "You can't keep going and getting players all the time. After a point, they've got to hit. They've got to do what they need to do.

"It's hard to score runs right now. We've faced some good pitching, but sometimes your other guys have to rise to the occasion too."

Andy Dirks' season-ending hamstring injury does not appear to have changed that approach. Dombrowski confirmed that they're no longer counting on Dirks' return.

"We had hoped Dirks would be back," Dombrowski said. "He's not going to be back. But the reality, is I don't know where you're going to find a bat to help your lineup. Runs are tough right now. It's hard to find hitters right now."

In August, players have to clear waivers in order to be traded, which makes deals tougher to pull off than they are in July.

The comments came on the heels' of the Tigers' 1-0 loss at Tampa Bay, where David Price threw a complete-game one-hitter in defeat thanks to an unearned run and a lack of run support by Detroit hitters against Alex Cobb and the Rays' bullpen.
Tigers official site
 
Anibal starts throwing, reports being pain-free.
The Tigers likely have a couple weeks to go before they can return Anibal Sanchez to their rotation. His first throws Friday, however, gave them some encouragement.
Sanchez, out for the past couple weeks with a strained right pectoral muscle, made about 40 throws off flat ground -- essentially playing catch -- and said he had no discomfort.
"Definitely a really good sign that I don't feel any pain," Sanchez said. "Everything felt free. I let it go on a couple throws at the end and I didn't feel anything, either. Now I just continue to work and be back soon."

Sanchez will throw again between games of Saturday's day-night doubleheader -- again off flat ground, this time more throws.

Joakim Soria, who also has been on the disabled list for close to two weeks, is also scheduled to throw Saturday. He has been sidelined by a left oblique strain.

"He can be activated on Monday," team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski told MLB Network Radio. "I'm not sure he'll be activated right then, but he's very close."

Another reliever reporting improvement, Dombrowski said, is long man Luke Putkonen, out since mid-April with elbow inflammation.

"He's getting pretty close," Dombrowski said. "For him, we're pleasantly surprised. And really, in the back of my mind, I was not planning on him being back. That one's going well for us."

Putkonen could make a Minor League rehab appearance or two in the Tigers' system -- either at one of the upper levels as their seasons end, or for Class A West Michigan during the playoffs.
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http://www.blessyouboys.com/2014/8/...-125-chris-iott-mlive-rusney-castillo-red-sox
Bless You Boys Tigers Blog Podcast 125: Meet the beat writer.

Topics:

Chris Iott interview:
We cover the gamut with Chris - life as a beat writer, the demands of social media and how it's changed his job over the years, the reputation of MLive's readership and if they reflect the belief fans have turned on the team, the differences between Jim Leyland and Brad Ausmus and if it's too soon to determine if the rookie manager was the right man for the job and get his take on the Tigers losing Rusney Castillo to the Red Sox and the fallout that may result.

Rusney Castillo and the Tigers' outfield in 2015: In hopes he would be their long-term solution in center, the Tigers went all-in on the 27-year-old.But the Red Sox will sign Castillo to a record setting deal for a Cuban defector. Center field remains a huge concern for 2015, with no real internal options. You can say the same about the outfield in general, which looks to be awful in 2015 as the roster it currently stands.

Offense becoming a huge concern: The Tigers haven't hit in the second half, shown by their slashing.251/.312/.374 compared to their solid first half numbers of .280/.333/.445. The team has been a wreck offensively, and there doesn't seem to be a solution in sight - save for players breaking out of long slumps.

A tale of two starts featuring no-hit stuff: Rick Porcello dominated the Rays in a 6-0 victory, tossing a four-hit, complete game shutout. At one point Porcello retired 20 straight batters. David Price one-upped Porcello the next night, tossing a complete game one-hitter, retiring the last 23 batters he faced. But the offense was a complete and utter no-show, Price losing in heart-breaking 1-0 fashion. The Price loss may be one of the most frustrating in recent memory, an utter waste of a memorable performance.

Justin Verlander: Diagnosed with shoulder inflammation, Verlander is reportedly pain-free after taking part in long-toss and bullpen sessions this week, returning to the rotation after being out of action 12 days. He will start one of the two games scheduled as part of Saturday's day-night twin-bill in Minnesota. He still refuses to say just how long his shoulder had been affecting his play.

Charges dismissed against Evan Reed: This ruling is why we should never rush to judgment. Something did happen between the two parties involved, but the judge believed his accuser wasn't credible and that it wasn't proven that she was incapacitated, ordering all charges dropped. Regardless, it's a sad situation all around.

All that, plus tangents galore!

Upcoming guests:

August 29: Jason Beck, Tigers beat writer for MLB.com
September 12: Mario Impemba, Tigers play-by-play man for Fox Sports Detroit
September 19: Rod Allen, member of the 1984 Tigers, color analyst for Fox Sports Detroit
 
Romine gets back to work after relief outing.
The first question Andrew Romine received on his way through the Tigers clubhouse on Saturday morning was about whether he needed ice for his shoulder. He chuckled.

"Oh, you know," he said when asked how his arm was feeling after his relief work during Friday's 20-6 loss to the Twins.

Romine was in the starting lineup for the first game of Saturday's doubleheader with the Twins at shortstop. He threw 27 pitches just over 13 hours earlier, enough that manager Brad Ausmus said he was basically on his last hitter when he induced a hard lineout from Danny Santana for the last out of the eighth.

"He was probably a hitter away from going back to second [base] and [Bryan] Holaday pitching," Ausmus said on Saturday morning.

It wasn't a matter of Romine being on a pitch count. It was Ausmus worrying about an arm injury if he had a position player -- someone not accustomed to pitching -- throw more than 30 pitches.

"You're asking a guy to pick up the team, which he did," Ausmus said. "But if something happens to him there, you feel awful about it. ... I can't keep Romine out there for 30-something pitches."

As odd as that sounds, the other options bordered on the bizarre.

Holaday caught all 214 pitches the Tigers threw Friday night, but was an option to pitch the eighth. He also nearly moved to second base once Romine entered to pitch, but Ausmus chose to put Alex Avila at first base and move Don Kelly to second instead.

"Holaday, Kelly and Romine were all in the discussion [to pitch]," Ausmus said. "In my mind, [Holaday] had thrown a bunch, just being a catcher and throwing it back [to the pitcher]."

Holaday caught 187 pitches over the first seven innings. Considering the Twins had 16 of their 20 hits for the game by then, he did not throw quite that many balls back.

As for Kelly, who pitched in a game for the Tigers in 2011, Ausmus said he has been getting his shoulder treated ever since colliding with the right-field wall at San Diego's Petco Park in early April.

"It doesn't affect his play," Ausmus said, "But that shoulder, he gets it treated. So I don't want to ask him to pitch."
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Tigers searching for answers to Krol's problems.
A little over two months ago, Ian Krol was looking like the Tigers' answer in lefty relief. He was also among the American League leaders in games pitched, in what was shaping up to be his first full big league season.

Krol was optioned to Triple-A Toledo on Friday for the second time in four weeks to work out his struggles. And the Tigers, whose trade for Krol and Robbie Ray is drawing more scrutiny with each turn by Doug Fister in the Nationals' rotation, are trying to figure out what's going on with Krol.

Ray, also optioned to Toledo on Friday after a six-run second inning, was the prized prospect in the deal. But Krol was intended to be an integral piece in the bullpen. The Krol that the Tigers saw dominate hitters in Spring Training was that guy. The version they've seen lately was not.

"He's kind of Jekyll and Hyde," manager Brad Ausmus said. "Sometimes he comes out there and [looks] real good, he's got really good arm speed, he's throwing 93-94 miles an hour and the ball gets on the hitters.

"And then sometimes, like [Friday] night, the arm speed's not there. It looks like he's guiding the ball and trying to throw strikes. We talked to him about it ... he said he's not. Maybe it's a mechanical issue."

Whether the struggles have any carryover from his mid-June stint on the disabled list with shoulder fatigue is another question Ausmus is asking.

"When he came back, there were times where the ball didn't seem to be jumping out of his hand like it does when he's right," Ausmus said. "We sent him down [before], and when he came back he looked good. I can't really explain it. It hasn't really been a pattern.

"Since he's come back, he certainly hasn't been overused -- so I don't think it was that. Whatever it is, he understands that he's got to fix it."
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http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2014/08/tigers_twins_buck_farmer.html
Twins 12, Tigers 4: Buck Farmer roughed up as Detroit suffers second consecutive lopsided loss.
mlive

http://www.freep.com/article/20140823/SPORTS02/308230126/detroit-tigers-minnesota-twins-game-1
Minnesota 12 - Detroit 4: Tigers throttled again with game later tonight.
freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...04/More-disastrous-pitching-leads-Tigers-loss
More disastrous pitching leads to Tigers loss.
detnews

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/inde...014_08_23_detmlb_minmlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det
Farmer roughed up as Tigers drop matinee.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/inde...d=det#gid=2014_08_23_detmlb_minmlb_1&mode=box
Boxscore.
Tigers official site

http://newenglishd.com/2014/08/23/how-was-the-game-august-23-2014-game-1/
How Was The Game? (August 23, 2014 ? Game 1).
from the nedtb

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2014/8/23/6060237/twins-12-tigers-4-karl-lobstein-debut
Twins 12 - Tigers 4: Another day, another blowout loss in Minnesota.
from bybtb
 
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