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* Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia was on the field watching batting practice before the game. He visited with Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire and Yankees manager Aaron Boone.
* Catcher James McCann scored the Tigers' first run when he crushed a pitch to the 437 feet to the bushes in center field to start the fifth. McCann had opened the season in a 5-for-35 slump.
Twenty-one of McCann's 33 career home runs have come against left-handed pitchers.
* The Tigers' bullpen cart is now sponsored by Motor City Casino and it has a new paint job to commemorate the occasion.
No Tigers relievers chose to use the cart during the first homestand and that doesn't appear to have changed for the second.
The first reliever, Buck Farmer, jogged out to the mound on his own. The cart transported his jacket to the Tigers dugout.
* Leonys Martin led off hte game by fouling a pitch off his right knee. He went down on the ground and appeared to be in pain, but ultimately stayed in the game.
* Jose Iglesias' league-low BABIP (batting average on balls in play) got a boost from a two-out double in the seventh inning and then an RBI single in the eighth, doubling his overall hit total for 2018. He has put 31 balls in play this year with two singles, two doubles and 27 outs to show for it.
The New York Yankees slugger-filled lineup needed little help, but the Detroit Tigers' sometimes adventurous defense provided exactly that in the series opener.
The Yankees had six extra-base hits, including an inside-the-park home run, to beat the Tigers 8-6 at Comerica Park on Friday night.
Tigers outfielders misplayed back-to-back balls in the first inning. Gary Sanchez doubled over Nicholas Castellanos' head in right field and then Aaron Hicks hit an inside-the-park homer on a ball that bounced off the wall and by center fielder Leonys Martin.
A throwing error by second baseman Dixon Machado gave the Yankees an unearned run in the fifth.
The Tigers entered the game with only three home runs in 12 games, but they added two more on Friday.
Jeimer Candelario started the eighth with a solo homer and the Tigers tacked on two more to cut the Yankees' lead to two runs. But Dixon Machado struck out to end the eighth, and the Tigers could make little headway against Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman, who struck out the side in the ninth.
Fiers? second start went notably worse than his first. In the top of the second inning, Gary Sanchez doubled off the right field wall, followed by Hicks hitting an inside-the-park home run. In the fifth inning, the Yankees scored three times on a double, single, and error. Fiers? final line: 5 2/3 innings pitched, eight hits, six runs, five earned, one walk and four strikeouts.
Fiers was not helped out by his defense. Sanchez?s double in the second was certainly catchable by Nicholas Castellanos. ? New York?s final run in the fifth inning scored on a Dixon Machado throwing error. Machado threw a routine groundball way past Miguel Cabrera at first base.
The Tigers got their knocks, but it wasn?t enough. They totaled nine hits. ? James McCann hit his first home run in the fifth inning, a solo shot into the shrubs in center field. ? McCann added a sacrifice fly. ?
Jeimer Candelario hit his first home run in the eighth inning, a solo shot to right field. Candelario?s home run was measured at 440 feet. ?
Victor Martinez doubled twice, driving in a run. ?
The Tigers put the tying run at the plate in the seventh inning and on first base in the ninth. ? Good at-bats by McCann and Jose Iglesias ? both singles ? extended the inning.
Alex Wilson?s struggles continued. He faced five batters in the eighth inning; four reached. Wilson allowed one run; his early-season ERA is 7.00. ?
Buck Farmer walked two batters but struck out four in 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. ?
Closer Shane Greene pitched a scoreless ninth inning.
* Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia was on the field watching batting practice before the game. He visited with Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire and Yankees manager Aaron Boone.
* Catcher James McCann scored the Tigers' first run when he crushed a pitch to the 437 feet to the bushes in center field to start the fifth. McCann had opened the season in a 5-for-35 slump.
Twenty-one of McCann's 33 career home runs have come against left-handed pitchers.
* The Tigers' bullpen cart is now sponsored by Motor City Casino and it has a new paint job to commemorate the occasion.
No Tigers relievers chose to use the cart during the first homestand and that doesn't appear to have changed for the second.
The first reliever, Buck Farmer, jogged out to the mound on his own. The cart transported his jacket to the Tigers dugout.
* Leonys Martin led off hte game by fouling a pitch off his right knee. He went down on the ground and appeared to be in pain, but ultimately stayed in the game.
* Jose Iglesias' league-low BABIP (batting average on balls in play) got a boost from a two-out double in the seventh inning and then an RBI single in the eighth, doubling his overall hit total for 2018. He has put 31 balls in play this year with two singles, two doubles and 27 outs to show for it.
The New York Yankees slugger-filled lineup needed little help, but the Detroit Tigers' sometimes adventurous defense provided exactly that in the series opener.
The Yankees had six extra-base hits, including an inside-the-park home run, to beat the Tigers 8-6 at Comerica Park on Friday night.
Tigers outfielders misplayed back-to-back balls in the first inning. Gary Sanchez doubled over Nicholas Castellanos' head in right field and then Aaron Hicks hit an inside-the-park homer on a ball that bounced off the wall and by center fielder Leonys Martin.
A throwing error by second baseman Dixon Machado gave the Yankees an unearned run in the fifth.
The Tigers entered the game with only three home runs in 12 games, but they added two more on Friday.
Jeimer Candelario started the eighth with a solo homer and the Tigers tacked on two more to cut the Yankees' lead to two runs. But Dixon Machado struck out to end the eighth, and the Tigers could make little headway against Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman, who struck out the side in the ninth.
Fiers? second start went notably worse than his first. In the top of the second inning, Gary Sanchez doubled off the right field wall, followed by Hicks hitting an inside-the-park home run. In the fifth inning, the Yankees scored three times on a double, single, and error. Fiers? final line: 5 2/3 innings pitched, eight hits, six runs, five earned, one walk and four strikeouts.
Fiers was not helped out by his defense. Sanchez?s double in the second was certainly catchable by Nicholas Castellanos. ? New York?s final run in the fifth inning scored on a Dixon Machado throwing error. Machado threw a routine groundball way past Miguel Cabrera at first base.
The Tigers got their knocks, but it wasn?t enough. They totaled nine hits. ? James McCann hit his first home run in the fifth inning, a solo shot into the shrubs in center field. ? McCann added a sacrifice fly. ?
Jeimer Candelario hit his first home run in the eighth inning, a solo shot to right field. Candelario?s home run was measured at 440 feet. ?
Victor Martinez doubled twice, driving in a run. ?
The Tigers put the tying run at the plate in the seventh inning and on first base in the ninth. ? Good at-bats by McCann and Jose Iglesias ? both singles ? extended the inning.
Alex Wilson?s struggles continued. He faced five batters in the eighth inning; four reached. Wilson allowed one run; his early-season ERA is 7.00. ?
Buck Farmer walked two batters but struck out four in 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. ?
Closer Shane Greene pitched a scoreless ninth inning.
