Tigers vs. cardinals Spring Training March 17

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Smyly on to pitch

 

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Brekman walks

 

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Roberson fly to center Berry handles and as I type DP to 3rd Tigers come to bat

 

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Having a little trouble keeping up as I'm useing only one hand typeing on my laptop in front of the TV. leadoff double

 

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Wow, Nice to come back to this...

Tigers 3-run fourth highlighted by RBI TRIPLE from prince. Stand-up triple by the way.

Delmon Young batting .480 heading into today's game. 1-for-1 with a walk thus far. Prince Fielder, new Tigers speedster, has a RBI triple.

Delmon Young off to a nice start this spring -- batting .500 (13x26) with four doubles, two home runs and 12 RBI.

Strong spring continues for Andy Oliver. Two scoreless innings.
Andy Oliver -- steadily 93-95 with fb, slider tight, no walks, one bloop hit through two innings. Very sharp.

Best sign Austin Jackson will be tough in 2012: Even his spring outs have been smashes. Today, scalded grounder to short, lined to short.
Austin Jackson doubles over RFer's head. Two weeks into spring games, he looks like a good, developing, 25-year-old who will hit .280-.300.

Sacrifice fly by Boesch scores Jackson to give the Tigers a 4-3 lead in the fifth inning.
Boesch rips one to CF into the wind for sac fly scoring Jackson. 4-3.

Delmon Young's quiet, passive Grapefruit League continues: 3-run jack onto the berm in left. Tigers up 7-3 in the fifth.
Delmon Young continues his torrid spring -- blasts a three-run home run to give the Tigers a 7-3 lead in the 5th.
Delmon Young crushed a 1-1 pitched..it landed on the berm. 7-3 Tigers Delmon mashing this spring.
Delmon Young batting .518 with a .962 slugging percentage in 11 Grapefruit League games.

Oliver replaced by Drew Smyly in the 6th inning. Smyly's turn to shine. Tigers lead 7-3.

 

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game on fox St Louis PBP Motte piitching for Cards

 

[kalinecountry]

Prince 3 for 3 today as the DH .345

Cabrera 2 for 3 .393

 

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Holiday walks after Kelly's double

 

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Berry just out at 1st on bunt

 

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Boesch up bingo error two runs in on out at first!

 

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Tigers and Cards in there green uniforms, is really crazy looking.

 

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AA up grounds out to Motte to end the ruff inning for the Cards. Tigers 9 Cards 3.

 

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Palm trees look good and Green at Kaline and Horton way

 

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Lead off walk given up by Smyly!

 

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flyout to Berry

 

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Big swing K ends the inning missed an out somewhere!

 

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JH hammers one down the line foul go to short
Mudhen hammers one outta here

 

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Drew Smyly not quite ready. But not far away. Two innings, no hits, two walks, two Ks. Fb 92-93. Everything moving. Cutter mean. 4 pitches.

 

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JH hammers one down the line foul go to short
Mudhen hammers one outta here
single au dp
Tigers 10 Cards 3
Cards come to bat

 

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Five home runs for Raburn, who just parked one into the beach towels and suntan lotion in leftfield berm. Also has a single today.
Tigers 10 - Cards 3.