Game 20 Tigers vs. white sox April 21, 2019

[kalinecountry]

Tigers Confirmed Lineup:
2B J. Harrison R
RF N. Castellanos R
DH M. Cabrera R
LF Niko Goodrum S
3B J. Candelario S
1B B. Dixon R
SS G. Beckham R
C John Hicks R
CF JaCoby Jones R
P Daniel Norris L

White sox Confirmed Lineup:
CF Leury Garcia S
SS Tim Anderson R
DH Jose Abreu R
1B Y. Alonso L
3B Yoan Moncada S
LF Eloy Jimenez R
C W. Castillo R
RF Ryan Cordell R
2B Y. Sanchez S
P Reynaldo Lopez R

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/white-s...5521#game_state=preview,game_tab=,game=565521
Tigers vs. whit sox Game Preview.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Happy Easter Tigers!

 

[boogerlovejoy]

Beckham with his team leading 3rd home run of the year. Glad he gave up soccer to join us!

 

[Mitchrapp]

Still hard to see Miggy with no home runs..

 

[manchild98]

I found an offensive stat we lead the league in....HBP...tied for 1st with 12 guys HBP.

 

[manchild98]

I found another....we lead the league with a 90% stolen base success rate. 9 for 10.

 

[manchild98]

Tigers give up 3 in the 8th to make it a 1 run game now. 4-3.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Woo boo!

Tiges win!

 

[Mitchrapp]

Hardy gets a hold, lol.

 

[boogerlovejoy]

I found an offensive stat we lead the league in....HBP...tied for 1st with 12 guys HBP.

Clearly, opposing pitchers are scared of our lineup.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Clearly, opposing pitchers are scared of our lineup.

Maybe our guys are just slow.

 

[kalinecountry]

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/daniel-norris-pitches-tigers-past-white-sox
Beavis Norris makes case to stick in Tigers' rotation.
Lefty goes 5 strong innings with 6 K's in win over White Sox.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/4/21/18509944/detroit-tigers-chicago-white-sox-easter-game-recap
Tigers 4 - White Sox 3: Daniel Norris saves Easter weekend.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/video/dixon-s-date-with-the-net?t=t116-default-vtp
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers win over the white sox.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/white-s...nal,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=565521
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...oit-tigers-trip-chicago-white-sox/3534362002/
'Step in the right direction:' Daniel Norris shines in first start, Tigers trip White Sox.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...it-tigers-chicago-white-sox-score/3534833002/
Detroit Tigers' Daniel Norris, Brandon Dixon impress in first starts.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/0...-win-since-2007-as-tigers-beat-white-sox.html
Daniel Norris gets first win since 2017 as Tigers beat White Sox.
Mlive

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2019/04/21/daniel-norris-detroit-tigers/3535886002/
Tigers' Daniel Norris relied on this pitch to earn 1st win since 2017.
Freep

 

[kalinecountry]

Harrison sticking atop lineup.
The Tigers signed Josh Harrison in February in part to serve as a veteran presence in the leadoff spot. The early returns have been less than productive -- Harrison entered Sunday 9-for-70 (.129) with five walks and a .205 on-base percentage -- but Gardenhire is hopeful he?s coming out of it.

?He just needs to lay off the higher pitches,? Gardenhire said. ?When he swings at those, it really goes straight up in the air.?

Harrison has always been more apt to put the ball in the air than on the ground. His ground ball/fly ball ratio of 0.60 entering Sunday was the same as last season and virtually the same as '17. However, his line-drive rate has fallen from 27 percent in '18 to 21 percent entering Sunday, which would be his lowest rate for a season since his first few years in the Majors from 2011-13, according to baseball-reference.com.
The metrics from Statcast shed a little more light on it:

? Harrison?s average launch angle has jumped from 14.9 degrees last season to a career-high 18.9 degrees in 2019 entering Sunday.

? Harrison?s chase rate of 36.2 percent is nearly even with 2018 (36.0 percent), but his contact rate on chase pitches is down from 68.9 percent last year to 58.8 percent entering Sunday.

? While Harrison?s solid contact (7.1 percent) and barrel (3.6 percent) rates are about the same as last season, the percentage of batted balls he has gotten under is up to 41.1 percent, well above his 30 percent rate last year.

?I just want him to cover the ball a little bit,? Gardenhire said. ?He?s chasing up in the zone a little bit too much, and to be a good leadoff man, you have to stay off those pitches. This ballpark?s not conducive.?

Though Gardenhire admits he has pondered moving Harrison in the lineup for a stretch to reduce the pressure, he?s inclined to stick with Harrison up top. Jeimer Candelario has batted leadoff the two times Harrison hasn?t played, and he was scheduled to lead off on Saturday with Harrison off before the rainout. But both games prior to Saturday were before Christin Stewart went on the injured list, dwindling the Tigers? options for the middle of the order. Ronny Rodriguez was scheduled to bat fifth on Saturday; John Hicks batted cleanup and Grayson Greiner hit fifth when Candelario led off last Sunday.

?Taking Candy and leading him off, the depth from the rest of the way on down gets really dicey,? Gardenhire said.
Tigers official site

 

[kalinecountry]

On deck: Red Sox
Series: Four games, Monday-Thursday, Fenway Park, Boston

First pitch: 7:10 p.m. Monday-Thursday

TV/radio: Monday ? FSD-plus/97.1; Tuesday-Thursday ? FSD/97.1

Probables:
Monday ? LHP Chris Sale (0-4, 8.50) vs. LHP Matthew Boyd (1-1, 2.96);
Tuesday ? TBA vs. RHP Spencer Turnbull (0-2, 3.43);
Wednesday ? LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (1-2, 7.20) vs. RHP Tyson Ross (1-2, 3.38);
Thursday ? RHP Rick Porcello (0-3, 8.47) vs. RHP Jordan Zimmermann (0-3, 4.94).

Scouting report:

► Sale, Red Sox: Rough start, to say the least. His fastball velocity is down to 92 mph and it?s been getting clobbered. Opponents are hitting .524 and slugging 1.098 off the fastball through four starts.

► Boyd, Tigers: He?s tied for fourth in the American League with 36 strikeouts and his 13.3 strikeouts-per-nine innings rate is second to Gerrit Cole. He?s got the lowest fielding independent pitching average in the league. He made his first start at Fenway last June and pitched 6⅓ strong innings (four hits, two runs).

 

[jas5lf]

What is the 162 game record for lowest team run output? This team is on pace to score under 500 runs this season.

 

[kalinecountry]

What is the 162 game record for lowest team run output? This team is on pace to score under 500 runs this season.

I posted it in one of the previous games. IIRC it is the 1968 white sox 462 runs.

 

[manchild98]

What is the 162 game record for lowest team run output? This team is on pace to score under 500 runs this season.

In the last 20 years it's 513 runs...which two teams did, but overall the 162 game record is 462 as mentioned in the previous post. That 2003 awful Tigers team averaged 3.65 runs per game. This team actually has boosted their runs per game average from 2.65 to 3.05 this week.

But to your point, I just can't see this team consistently scoring runs. We don't hit for average, power or get on base a lot....and it's not just because we're in some type of slump. The silver lining though....it can only get better, right? Maybe not much better but it doesn't seem like it can get worse?

Pitching overall has been exceptionally good compared to what we all thought we might see. We're still like 5th overall in MLB for team ERA.

 

[tomdalton22]

Miggy slugging .310

pathetic

 

[jas5lf]

I posted it in one of the previous games. IIRC it is the 1968 white sox 462 runs.

In the last 20 years it's 513 runs...which two teams did, but overall the 162 game record is 462 as mentioned in the previous post. That 2003 awful Tigers team averaged 3.65 runs per game. This team actually has boosted their runs per game average from 2.65 to 3.05 this week.

But to your point, I just can't see this team consistently scoring runs. We don't hit for average, power or get on base a lot....and it's not just because we're in some type of slump. The silver lining though....it can only get better, right? Maybe not much better but it doesn't seem like it can get worse?

Pitching overall has been exceptionally good compared to what we all thought we might see. We're still like 5th overall in MLB for team ERA.

Wow. 462 is really bad and even this lineup should surpass that. I agree, it?s going to be a struggle all season to score runs and the pitching cannot sustain what they?ve done in April.

 

[kalinecountry]

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/0...y-to-stop-worrying-and-just-hit-the-ball.html
In midst of slumps, Tigers try to stop worrying and just hit the ball.
Mlive