Game 122 Tigers vs. Dodgers August 19, 2017

[kalinecountry]

Tigers lineups:
1. Ian Kinsler, 2B
2. Mikie Mahtook, RF
3. Justin Upton, LF
4. Miguel Cabrera, 1B
5. Nicholas Castellanos, 3B
6. Victor Martinez, DH
7. James McCann, C
8. JaCoby Jones, CF
9. Jose Iglesias, SS
Michael Fulmer RHP
Bench: C John Hicks, OF Alex Presley, IF/OF Andrew Romine, IF Dixon Machado.

dodgers lineup:
taylor cf
seager ss
bozo the clown with a beard dh
bellinger rf
granderson lf
grandal c
gonzalez 1b
forsythe 3b
utley 2b
Hyun-Jin Ryu lhp

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/articl...s-vs-struggling-star-fulmer/?topicId=26688732
Struggling Fulmer faces tough Dodgers lineup.
Tigers official site

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2017/08/tigers_dodgers_preview.html#incart_river_index[/url]
Tigers, Dodgers preview: Can Michael Fulmer snap Detroit's 5-game losing skid?
Mlive

https://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2017/DET201708190.shtml
Detroit Tigers vs. Los Angeles Dodgers, at Comerica Park, August 19, 2017 Matchups, Tickets, Preview.
Baseball Reference

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2017/08/curtis_granderson_detroit.html#incart_river_index
After trade to Dodgers, Curtis Granderson will pay unexpected visit to Detroit.
Mlive
To make room for newly acquired Curtis Granderson, the Dodgers on Saturday optioned former All-Star Joc Pederson to Triple-A Oklahoma City.

Alan Trammell will be in the booth this afternoon with Dick Enberg, and Gibby?

Detroit Tigers
RHP Michael Fulmer (10-10, 3.78 ERA)
22 GS, 145 1/3 IP, 134 H, 61 ER, 11 HR, 34 BB, 102 K, 3.54 FIP

Los Angeles Dodgers
LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (4-6, 3.63 ERA)
17 GS, 96 2/3 IP, 98 H, 39 ER, 16 HR, 28 BB, 94 K, 4.34 FIP

How to watch and listen
Who: Detroit Tigers (53-68) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (86-34)
When: 4:05 p.m. EDT
Where: Comerica Park
TV: Fox Sports Detroit
Radio: FM 97.1 The Ticket and the Tigers radio network

Tigers by the numbers
Overall: 53-68
Current streak: L5
At Comerica Park: 29-29
On the road: 24-39
Day games: 23-18
Night games: 30-50
vs. AL East: 14-13
vs. AL Central: 25-24
vs. AL West: 8-21
vs. NL: 5-10

Three things to know about this game
Fulmer still doesn't hand out homers in high quantity, posting a 0.7 home runs per nine innings rate (third-best in the Majors). But he's allowed a home run in four straight games, which is his longest streak since April.

Some of Fulmer's poor results lately could be due to circumstance, as his .357 batting average on balls in play in his past four starts is markedly higher than his season average (.283).

Only four current Tigers have faced Ryu, for a total of 16 at-bats, but they are 8-for-16 with a 1.181 OPS off him.

 

[kalinecountry]

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/dodgers.../491933#game_state=live,game_tab=,game=491933
Gameday.

 

[kalinecountry]

Great to see and hear Trammell in the booth with Enberg and Gibby.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Fulmer spot on today..

 

[Mitchrapp]

Nice to know Nick has another error.. Yay.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Nick messed that shutout up..

 

[kalinecountry]

0 - 0 game into the 7th with 2 outs and clown shoes makes an error and granderson gets to second, a walk and then rbi single, should have been out of the inning,

 

[kalinecountry]

minimal scoring, but Fulmer spent to many bullets after the error,

time for the dumpster fire aka the bullpen,

 

[lonesometiger]

Not sure how that's ruled an error. As clownanos never touch the ball that the short stop should have played it had the Tigers not been in the shift. And why was clowney not wearing sun glasses? Also should clown play like that in right we will be for laugh and giggles all game long. Showed it on the replayed and it was to laughable. Iglesais was mad he did not get it!

 

[kalinecountry]

leadoff walk scores on a single by bearded bozo the clown, fu alex wilson,

 

[lonesometiger]

and the lead off walk scores the second run!

 

[kalinecountry]

Fulmer pitches a great game 7 innings, 1 run 3 hits, could have been 0 runs but for the error, 2 walks, and 6 K's and is going to get tagged with the loss unless the Tigers score some runs,

 

[lonesometiger]

The two offense can not win it now. It will take the 4 or more run offense to get it done. Tigers have not won a game 3-X this season.

 

[lonesometiger]

Cabrera legging single

 

[lonesometiger]

the closer in a non closer spot! never learn.

 

[lonesometiger]

glove hit life

 

[lonesometiger]

52-9 LAD on a roll.

 

[kalinecountry]

After a one-game hiccup, Michael Fulmer is back to normal.

That's the only good news that came out of the Detroit Tigers' 3-0 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday afternoon at Comerica Park.

Five days after struggling in his first start since coming off the disabled list, Fulmer threw seven strong innings and allowed only one unearned run.

Fulmer had retired the first two batters of the seventh inning, when third baseman Nicholas Castellanos lost track of a pop-up. The run came home to score to break a 0-0 deadlock and put Fulmer on the hook for the loss.

The Tigers have lost six in a row and 12 of their last 14. They are now 16 games under .500 for the first time since 2005, when they finished 71-91.

Former Tigers outfielder Curtis Granderson got a nice ovation from fans when he came to the plate for the Dodgers in the second inning.
The Dodgers acquired Granderson in a trade with the New York Mets on Friday night.

Detroit Tigers center fielder JaCoby Jones beat out an infield single in the third inning in his first Major League at-bat since April.
The play was reviewed and the safe call upheld.

Dodgers starter Hyun-jin Ryu opted to pitch around Justin Upton, walking the bases loaded in the third inning to face Miguel Cabrera.

Ryu struck out Cabrera on three pitches, the last on a questionable strike call to end the threat.

Nick Castellanos dropped a shallow pop fly in the 7th, and two batters later, the Dodgers scored the only run they would need.
Castellanos circled and shaded his eyes and never really found the ball. It landed off to his side and was scored a two-base error.

Ryu lasted only five innings despite not allowing a run. He walked four and threw 89 pitches before Dodgers manager Dave Roberts opted to go to the bullpen.

Fulmer was the hard-luck loser: He shook off the rust from his first start back on Monday in Texas and threw seven great innings, allowing just that unearned run. He walked two and struck out six.

The Tigers offense didn?t threaten much, although they were given plenty of early opportunities by Dodgers lefty starter Hyun-Jin Ryu, who walked four batters in five innings.

The Dodgers walked five batters but none of those batters reached second base and Ross Stripling bridged the gap to a hard-throwing back of the Los Angeles bullpen, where Brandon Morrow set the Tigers down in order and Jansen did the same.

The loss aside, the Tigers had to be heartened by Fulmer?s performance.
Over the previous four starts, interrupted by a 10-day stint on the disabled list (right ulnar neuritis), he was tagged for 19 earned runs and 29 hits in his last 21.1 innings. And he went searching for a cure.

He threw a flat-ground session the day after his start, which he never does. Fulmer watched video and found he was doing something odd when he separated his hands, he wasn?t getting his wrist cocked quickly enough.

Fulmer was a different pitcher on Saturday. Or, more accurate, he was the same pitcher he?d been before the mini-slump ? ornery and dominant. He threw 47 two-seam fastballs between 95 and 98 mph. He threw one at 94, which Gonzalez drilled to right field to score the run.

He got 10 called strikes with the two-seamer, an indication of how lively it was, running in on right-handed hitters and down on lefties.
His slider was as sharp as it?s been in weeks, as well.

Jones returns with a highlight catch: Though Gonzalez's go-ahead single was his lone hit of the game, he had two other hard-hit line drives go for outs. One was a 103-mph drive to center that Jones, just recalled Friday from Triple-A Toledo, ran down for a grab. The outfielder covered 46 feet in 3.4 seconds to track the ball down, making it a four-star catch according to Statcast.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/dodgers...933#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=491933
Boxscore.

 

[kalinecountry]

In tonights red sox vs. yankees game,
Tigers great LHP Mickey Lolich's 42 year record for the most Strikeouts by LHP has been broken by CC Sabathia.
Lolich had 2,679. CC tied him in the 1st and passed him in the 2nd inning.
Give both a hand. #RecordsAreMadeToBeBroken

 

[biggunsbob]

Well now we have to go 37-3 to finsh at 90-72 !!!