Tigers vs. indians Game Thread August 5

[kalinecountry]

Tigers lineup :
Jackson CF
Infante 3B
Cabrera DH
Fielder 1B
Young LF *** no Dirks??
Peralta SS
Boesch RF
Laird C
Worth 2B
Scherzer P

Gameday here soon.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2012/DET201208050.shtml
Tigers vs. indians Game Preview.
from Baseball Reference

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/preview?gameId=320805106&teams=cleveland-indians-vs-detroit-tigers
Tigers vs. indians Game Preview.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/28976/max-scherzer
Scherzer vs. indians. Beware choo and krotchman.
Tigers have never faced seddon.
from espn
CLE starter Chris Seddon's stats at AAA Columbus this year: LHH hit .194, RHH hit .261, and 15 of 16 HRs allowed were by RHH.

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2012/8/...8-preview-cleveland-indians-at-detroit-tigers
Tigers vs. indians Game Preview.
from blessyouboystigersblog

Leyland said Miggy's ankle has been bothering him since he fouled a ball off it a few games ago. Had been considering Omar in LF. decides on the statue called delmon.
Leyland's Sunday lineups....Tigers are 14 - 3 on Sundays.
from mattmowery

 

[kingofdetroit57]

Dammit Smokes, why is Young back hitting 5th and playing LF again?

 

[hellifino]

if Berry ain't hitting 2nd, then Dirks would be your best option. but way to go sparky.

 

[Slick]

Indians are throwing a Lefty....hence Smokes goes with mostly his RH hitters

 

[grandy]

Don't really mind Delmon hitting today, he's been above average against lefties this season.

However, Boesch has been awful against lefties this season.

 

[kalinecountry]

Yes, Ryan Raburn is batting just .165 off left-handed pitching this year, but the fact remains that he?s a right-handed hitter. The way the Tigers roster lines up, he?s the only right-handed hitting outfielder the Tigers had on their bench, so his move to the DL Sunday ? and Danny Worth?s return to replace him ? forced some juggling on Jim Leyland?s part to put in some right-handed bats against Chris Seddon, who was allowing a .194 average to left-handed hitters this year at Triple-A Columbus before the Indians called him up for this start.

?I was actually going to play Omar [Infante] in left and DH [Delmon] Young,? Leyland said. ?But I said, you know what, this is a good opportunity to get [Miguel] Cabrera off his feet.?

That last part is the bigger news out of all this. Cabrera fouled a ball off his left shin earlier in the week, head athletic trainer Kevin Rand confirmed Sunday morning, and the drainage is causing soreness in his left ankle. That?s why Leyland used a defensive substitution to replace Cabrera in the ninth inning the last couple nights with the outcome pretty well secure.
from Jason Beck's Tigers blog this morning

 

[biggunsbob]

Go Tigers!!!!!

 

[tigermud]

Dirks is hitting .208 against LHP's this year
Boesch .238

Choo is hitting .611 against Max this year, yikes

 

[jas5lf]

Brown eye.....

 

[grandy]

Oh boy

 

[spockmaster]

looks like brown eye showed up today.

 

[manchild98]

We're going to need some runs today.

 

[tigermud]

7 of 9 in their order today LH, going to be a long day for max. Hope we score a bunch off the AAA Guy.

 

[jas5lf]

3 hits and a walk to this shit lineup. Jesus.

 

[dpinsea]

Ugly start...

 

[jas5lf]

Good start off AAA shaggy.

 

[manchild98]

Nice bloop hit for Omar...return the favor.

 

[jas5lf]

That shit single makes up for Hafner's shit single.

 

[dpinsea]

Capitalize here

 

[dpinsea]

Why did he hold him?