Game 30 Tigers @ royals May 3, 2018 2:15 pm EST

[tomdalton22]

If '18 is going to be Miggy's swan-song healthwise, he is going to become a historically expensive roster cut next year.

lol...he is owed $178M...he's not getting cut

 

[turok]

lol...he is owed $178M...he's not getting cut

If he is going to be unable to even DH, then he will become a very expensive bench ornament.

 

[kalinecountry]

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/miguel-cabrera-exits-with-hamstring-strain/c-275097848
Miggy strains hamstring in return to lineup.
Cabrera missed previous three games with a left biceps spasm.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2018/5/3/17316758/detroit-tigers-miguel-cabrera-right-hamstring-strain
Miguel Cabrera leaves game with right hamstring strain.
This injury appears to be unrelated to his Sunday exit.
BYBTB

 

[kalinecountry]

Lucas Duda had three hits and drove in four, the Royals pounded a trio of homers and Kansas City beat the Detroit Tigers 10-6 on Thursday to open their four-game series.

Salvador Perez, Jorge Soler and Alex Gordon each went deep for the Royals, who have quietly gotten on track offensively after a miserable start.

Everyone in the starting lineup had at least one hit except for Cheslor Cuthbert, and he came within a couple feet of a home run in the seventh inning.

Kansas City pounded out 13 hits in all against Mike Fiers and the Tigers bullpen. Reliever Chad Bell (0-1) allowed five runs and five hits in 1 2/3 innings.

Eric Skoglund wasn't much better on the mound for Kansas City, but Kyle McCarthy (3-0) wiggled out of a key sixth-inning jam before pitching a clean seventh to earn the victory in relief.

Nick Castellanos homered and had three hits for Detroit, while slugging DH Miguel Cabrera left with a strained hamstring in the sixth inning. The severity of the injury was not known.

The Tigers and Royals spent most of the afternoon trading stiff jabs.

Kansas City scored two in the first on singles by Duda and Jon Jay, then Detroit scored two in the third on Jeimer Candelario's double. The Royals answered with two in the bottom half on Perez's shot to left field, and both teams scored a run in the fourth inning.

Detroit finally knocked Skoglund from the game in the fifth, when Castellanos went deep and Jose Iglesias drove in a run off reliever Scott Barlow to tie it 5-5.

Fiers was gone after five runs and six hits and a walk in four innings, while Skoglund left after allowing five runs and eight hits and three walks in 4 2/3 innings.

Soler pushed the Royals back on top with his soaring homer to left later in the fifth, and they kept pulling away from there. Duda added a bases-loaded, two-out single in the sixth to continue giving Kansas City's bullpen plenty of support.

MIGGY LEAVES IN 6TH

Cabrera was trying to advance to second base in the sixth inning when he pulled up and grabbed his right hamstring. The two-time MVP had returned to the lineup Thursday after missing three games with biceps spasms. INF Niko Goodrum replaced him in the lineup.

TRAINER'S ROOM
Tigers: DH Victor Martinez got the day off to rest a swollen ankle. ... LHP Daniel Norris (left groin injury) had a muscular decompression procedure Thursday. He's expected to miss up to 12 weeks.

The Tigers totaled 15 hits.
Cabrera went 1-for-4 with a walk. His sixth-inning single was hit sharply.
Castellanos? third home run was a rope into the second row in left field. He had three hits.
Jeimer Candelario tied the game in the third inning with a two-run double off Jon Jay?s glove in left field. The Tigers wouldn?t catch up again.
Leonys Martin went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and a walk.
Jose Iglesias and Dixon Machado each had two hits.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...nal,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=529874
Boxscore.

 

[lonesometiger]

I know the starter gave up 5! But the dumb pen not supposed give as many. For the umpteenth time fix the fail pen!

 

[Mitchrapp]

I know the starter gave up 5! But the dumb pen not supposed give as many. For the umpteenth time fix the fail pen!

When do they ever try to fix it this early.. They usually wait until well past the point. And then maybe they send someone down.

 

[Rebbiv]

Record vs teams less than .500

CLE 12-4 (16) .750 WPCT
DET 12-7 (19) .632 WPCT

KCR 6-8 (14) .429 WPCT
CHW 7-11 (18) .389 WPCT
MIN 4-7 (11) .363 WPCT

DET's next 6 games are against teams under .500. Where CLE's next 5 are against teams over .500.

Teams over .500 month of May

MIN = 18
CLE = 16
DET = 14
CLE = 12
KCR = 11

 

[dale675]

Miggy to DL and Grayson Greiner called up?

 

[Rebbiv]

Miggy to DL and Grayson Greiner called up?

Another no hit backup, so Hicks can play 1B while Miggy is out.

 

[dale675]

Another no hit backup, so Hicks can play 1B while Miggy is out.

IMO don't need to carry 3 catchers. I'd rather see Christin Stewart but the problem is where do you play him. I'd rather him get a shot at DH, can't be much worse that Victor hitting .222 with .639 OPS.

 

[tomdalton22]

IMO don't need to carry 3 catchers. I'd rather see Christin Stewart but the problem is where do you play him. I'd rather him get a shot at DH, can't be much worse that Victor hitting .222 with .639 OPS.

Who plays 1B?

 

[dale675]

Who plays 1B?

Hicks, who is already on the roster. If him or McCann get hurt, then call up Greiner. Didn't Nick get a few reps at 1B in the spring? or was that my imagination? LOL


Also: I decided to start a thread about mid season roster moves, I think it would be cool to have a thread going rather than here and there in each game thread.

http://detroitsportsforum.com/showthread.php?p=831193

 

[Mitchrapp]

IMO don't need to carry 3 catchers. I'd rather see Christin Stewart but the problem is where do you play him. I'd rather him get a shot at DH, can't be much worse that Victor hitting .222 with .639 OPS.

Put Nick at 1st and Stewart in the OF. He's 24, use him.

 

[tomdalton22]

Put Nick at 1st and Stewart in the OF. He's 24, use him.

I don't know if Nick has ever played 1B.

I'd be OK with releasing Victor and calling up Stewart.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I don't know if Nick has ever played 1B.

I'd be OK with releasing Victor and calling up Stewart.

Most people don't until it's happens. It's not like Hicks is a stalwart at 1B.

 

[kalinecountry]

Blaine Hardy is headed to the #Tigers. Here is a look over how he's handled Triple-A this season: 24.1 IP, 0.74 ERA, 4 BB, 30 K, 1.46 FIP, 0.62 WHIP.