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Detroit Tigers Team Notes

Jim Leyland was asked yesterday the reason for Tigers' 36-33 road record. Without hesitation, his answer: Victor Martinez. Case in point.

How much credit can Avila get for Fister's increase in K's?
Some. Avila said they've been going with more curveballs lately.
 
Detroit Tigers Team Notes

Post game notes from espn;
Fister's 13 strikeouts are the most by a Tigers pitcher against Cleveland since LHP Mike Kilkenny fanned 13 on Sept. 17, 1969. ... Detroit recalled C Omir Santos from Triple-A Toledo for the fourth time. The Tigers also were planning to call up INF Danny Worth, according to a Toledo spokesman. ... The Tigers arrived at their Cleveland hotel around 2 a.m. after an 18-2 win over the White Sox on Sunday night. Leyland said he will try to rest some Tigers when they play another day game Wednesday against the Indians. ... Tigers OF Brennan Boesch is out for the season with a torn ligament in his right thumb. He could have surgery this week at Cleveland Clinic, by noted specialist Dr. Thomas Graham.
 
Detroit Tigers Team Notes

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2011/09/tigers_doug_fister_strikes_out.html
Tigers' Doug Fister strikes out career-high 13 in 4 - 2 victory over Indians.
from Mlive

Fister is 4-1 with a 2.64 ERA in seven starts since joining the Tigers. He has struck out 36 and walked three in 44 1/3 innings since the trade, and Detroit is 5-2 in games he has started.

Fister, who always works fast, came through. He threw 101 pitches -- 72 for strikes -- in eight innings of work in a game that took 2 hours, 34 minutes.
 
Detroit Tigers Team Notes

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=18851013
Webvideo of Martinez's 3 run homer.

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=18857739
Webvideo of Cabrera's rbi ground force out.
He is/was still limping from the slide in Sunday nights game.
maybe a game at DH in the next game or two?

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=18862531
Webvideo of Fister's 13 strikeouts.

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=18869399
Webvideo of Valverde closing it out and the save 41 consecutive.

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=18878541
Post game webvideo recap of Tigers 4 - 2 win over indians.

All from the Tigers official site
 
Detroit Tigers Team Notes

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_09_05_detmlb_clemlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det
Fister's 13 K's help Tigers pad division lead in 4 - 2 win over indians.

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_09_05_detmlb_clemlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det
Boxscore.

from the Tigers official site

According to research from Elias Sports Bureau, no American League pitcher had struck out 13 batters and lasted eight innings with fewer than 102 pitches since at least 2000, when it started keeping pitch-count data with every game. Two-time National League Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum did it in 2009, as did Florida's Ricky Nolasco a year earlier, but nobody had done it against a lineup with a designated hitter.
 
Detroit Tigers Team Notes

Tigers now 38-21 in the Central, 18-7 in their 25 games, and 19-10 in their last 29 road games.

Fister's previous career best in Ks was 9 - earlier this year...before that, his career-high was 7, three different times.

13 strikeouts or more has only been done 13 times in the last 40 years by a Tigers pitcher...Lolich 4 times, Verlander 3 times.

Fister's last 4 games started - 7IP+ each game, 1ER or fewer each game, has allowed 3ER on 19H in 29.2IP, with 2BB and 31K.

Tigers are now 17 games over .500....and just half-game behind Rangers in battle for 2nd-best record among Division leaders.
 
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