Game 97 Tigers @ twins July 23, 2017

[Mitchrapp]

I like how Rondon gets a hold. The worse Stat in baseball.

 

[kalinecountry]

Top 9th and Once again Tigers get an insurance run this game,

Victor line drive single to right and Upton scores after his double and stolen base,

Tigers lead 7 - 5,

McCant up runners on first and third, gets 2 brush back pitches 3 and 0, walks,

bases jammed,

pitching change at around the 4 hour mark,

 

[biggunsbob]

Nice !!!!!

 

[lonesometiger]

Little money out hitting big money today.

 

[kalinecountry]

Back to a 4 run lead 9 - 5,

 

[lonesometiger]

RBI WALK Kinsler

 

[kalinecountry]

Castellanos just misses an opposite field grand slam,

 

[manchild98]

7, 8, 9 & 1 hitters are 12-19 with 7 runs scored and 6 rbi's and 2 walks.

 

[lonesometiger]

0-5 no patients Castellanos flies out on 1-0. Good thing the rest of the team hit today.

 

[manchild98]

This is officially the longest 9 inning game in Target field history (4 hours and 12 minutes)...and still going....will be at least 4:20.

 

[kalinecountry]

Matthew Boyd struck out a career-high eight batters and Jose Iglesias clubbed a 430-foot home run as the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 9-6 Sunday afternoon at Target Field.

The Tigers took two of three from the Twins and finished their two-city road trip with a 4-3 record.

In the seventh, reliever Shane Greene walked the first batter he faced and then Max Kepler loaded the bases with a bunt hit. Greene struck out Jason Castro and then ordered up a tailor-made, inning-ending double play by Zack Granite. But Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler booted the ball and no outs were recorded.

Greene bore down and struck out the next two batters, including an epic 13-pitch, bases-loaded showdown with Eduardo Escobar to preserve the Tigers' 4-3 lead.

The Tigers scored two big runs in the eighth, but reliever Bruce Rondon gave them back in the bottom of the inning.

Closer Justin Wilson was summoned for a four-out save. He escaped the eighth, got three more runs of assistance from his offense in the top of the ninth, and then finally ended the four-hour, 19-minute marathon.
Left-handed closer Justin Wilson got the final four outs for the Tigers, but not before allowing a solo home run to Brian Dozier in the bottom of the ninth.

It was the Tigers' longest nine-inning game of the season and the longest in Twins' history.

NOTABLE
Boyd recorded his eighth strikeout by K'ing Miguel Sano for the third time in the sixth inning. Sunday was the first meeting between Boyd and Sano since April 22, when Boyd was ejected for throwing at Sano, who was later suspended for shoving catcher James McCann in the resulting scuffle.
It was a gritty-not-pretty effort by Boyd. He wasn?t razor sharp, but his battle level was off the charts. He fell behind nine of the first 13 hitters he faced, pitched in hitter-friendly counts most of the day, and yet, after six innings he had allowed just two runs and four hits ? and he posted a career-high eight strikeouts.

Tigers right fielder Alex Presley extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a single to lead off the seventh inning. He scored on Iglesias' home run.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...565#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=491565
Boxscore.

http://m.mlb.com/det/video/search?team_id=116&tagName=Detroit Tigers
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers win over the twins.

Twins third baseman Eduardo Escobar's home run in the third inning bounced off the facade of the third deck at Target Field. The game-tying, two-run homer was estimated at 438-442 feet.

Boyd was hit on his left throwing hand by Zack Granite's sharp come-backer in the fifth inning. Although he appeared to be in game, Boyd remained in the game after successfully testing his grip with four warm-up pitches.

Tigers first base coach Omar Vizquel gave Jose Iglesias a comically exaggerated stop sign when he singled in the third inning. Iglesias was thrown out trying to stretch a single into the double in the ninth inning Saturday night.
Iglesias, who hit a two-run home run to snap a 2-2 tie in the seventh, finished 3-for-5 with three RBI and two scored for the Tigers.

Kinsler went 3-for-5 a walk, two RBI and run scored.

Upton finished 2-for-4 with a RBI, a run scored and a stolen base.

Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera returned to the lineup after missing one game with a right clavicle contusion. Cabrera went 0-for-5 with three strikeouts today and 3-for-23 (.130) during the road trip.

Tigers catcher James McCann continues to rake in Minneapolis. He's now 20-for-47 (.426) in his career at Target Field with seven doubles, a triple and four home runs. He went 3-for-4 on Sunday.

ROARS
Matt Boyd: A career-high eight strikeouts across six innings, with four hits and three walks.

Shane Greene: Struck out the side with no earned runs in one of the highest-leverage situations of the season.

James McCann: 3-4 with two doubles and a great throw from his knees to cut down Zack Granite during the third-inning threat.

Jose Iglesias: three hits including the go-ahead home run in the seventh, his third knock of the year.

CONCERNED MEOWS
It hurts my heart to say it, but Miguel Cabrera is clearly not having any fun at the plate, going 0-5 with three more strikeouts today.

STREAKS AND STATS
Today was the longest nine-inning game in Target Field history at four hours and 19 minutes. The top three longest games have all been against the Tigers.

 

[kalinecountry]

Post game;

Tigers announce they have optioned Jim Adduci back to Toledo.

Tigers recalling Drew VerHagen from Toledo prior to tomorrow's game.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/07/23/daniel-norris-toledo-mud-hens/503169001/
Daniel Norris (groin) exits Toledo Mud Hens rehab in first inning as precaution.
Freep

 

[tigermud]

Seriously tigers, you need to just sit miggy for at least a week, what is the point in just keeping on running him out there when the season is already over as it is? I see no reason to not give him a few days off. He's obviously banged up and completely lost mentally as well

 

[lonesometiger]

Seriously tigers, you need to just sit miggy for at least a week, what is the point in just keeping on running him out there when the season is already over as it is? I see no reason to not give him a few days off. He's obviously banged up and completely lost mentally as well

Seem like the Cubs did this to Alfonso Soriano. Got to get there money return. This one of the big problems of signing a player to, too long of a contract. But he needs to sit for a while. This is what the 10 day DL is for. And really Tigers put up good numbers today with Cabrera going 0-5!

 

[kalinecountry]

June 22 - since Miguel Cabrera finished a game with his batting average .270 or higher. It was .271