Tigers vs. redsox Game Thread August 1

[kalinecountry]

Tigers lineup :
Jackson CF
Berry LF
Cabrera 3B
Fielder 1B
Boesch RF
Young DH
Avila C
Peralta SS
Santiago 2B
Porcello P

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_08_01_detmlb_bosmlb_1&mode=gameday&c_id=det
Gameday from mlb.com

More rain is forecast. It was pouring from 3:30ish to about 5:00. Now saying Radar in Boston looks promising until at least 10:30. Won't surprise if it rains before.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2012/BOS201208010.shtml
Tigers vs. redsox Game Preview.
from Baseball Reference

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/preview?gameId=320801102&teams=detroit-tigers-vs-boston-red-sox
Tigers vs. redsox Game Preview.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/29966/rick-porcello
Porcello vs. redsox.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/4762/aaron-cook
Tigers hitters vs. cook.
from espn
The Tigers are 8-30 in Boston since 2003.

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2012/8/1/3213176/game-105-preview-tigers-at-red-sox
Tigers vs. redsox Game Preview.

Porcello is on the hill at Fenway for 1st time since infamous scuffle with Youkilis in 2009. He reflects back on it on Tigers Live at 6:30.

Brennan Boesch and Delmon Young swap places in the batting order. Ramon Santiago gets a day at second base in place of Omar Infante. Jim Leyland said in his pregame talk today that he moved up Boesch to get another left-handed bat up in the middle of the order against Aaron Cook, who is giving up a .309 batting average to lefties this year. The same thought process played into playing Santiago today and getting a day off for Infante.
from Jason Beck

Brennan Boesch replaces Delmon Young in fifth spot in batting order.
Delmon Young has batted in the fifth spot in all 92 games he has started this season.
He will bat sixth tonight against the Boston Red Sox.
Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland has flip-flopped Young and Brennan Boesch in the starting lineup for the series finale against the Red Sox. Boesch will hit fifth behind Prince Fielder with Young batting sixth.
Young is hitting .263 with 11 home runs and 42 RBIs this season and has been less productive than expected, especially considering the fact that he hits behind Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder. He has an OPS below .700 for the season and has a .333 slugging percentage with runners in scoring position.
Boesch is hitting .246 with 11 home runs and 44 RBIs. He has a .671 OPS.
Young is 3-for-5 in his career against Red Sox right-hander Aaron Cook (2-4, 4.50 ERA). Boesch is 1-for-2 against Cook.
Rick Porcello (7-6, 4.56 ERA) will start for the Tigers. He is 0-2 with a 10.80 ERA in three career starts against the Red Sox. Porcello has pitched just 8 1/3 innings in those three starts.
from Mlive

 

[tigerfan2272]

White Sox win. We are starting to fall out, better get our heads out of our asses.

 

[tigermud]

White Sox win. We are starting to fall out, better get our heads out of our asses.

Hard to believe they was just in 1st a week ago, i yi yi. Well hopefully RP can keep the ball down tonight else it'll be a sweep and coming home 3.5 out. not good, not good at all.

 

[spockmaster]

whats the point of delmon not hitting fifth if he's just going to slot someone just as shitty there instead? no matter what order theyre in, they both ****ing suck. they shouldnt be 5-6.

 

[tigermud]

whats the point of delmon not hitting fifth if he's just going to slot someone just as shitty there instead? no matter what order theyre in, they both ****ing suck. they shouldnt be 5-6.

The problem is there are no good options.

 

[biggunsbob]

Man a week ago we were 1.5 up and now this garbage... Oh well maybe we can start another roll with Rick on the mound...

 

[biggunsbob]

The problem is there are no good options.

Yeah who do we try in these spots... Very frustrating that every player 5-9 has basically stunk all season with only a few good stretches...

 

[servinthed]

I think Peralta should be in the #5 spot with the current options the Tigers have, even though he isnt a huge upgrade. He has a better OBP, SLG, and is a significantly smarter hitter than both Boesch and Delmon.

 

[servinthed]

Once Dirks come back...

Jackson
Dirks
Cabrera
Fielder
Peralta
Infante
Avila
Boesch/Delmon DH
Berry (if hes still hitting)

 

[johnny2x2x]

Once Dirks come back...

Jackson
Dirks
Cabrera
Fielder
Peralta
Infante
Avila
Boesch/Delmon DH
Berry (if hes still hitting)

This.

 

[Thumb]

whats the point of delmon not hitting fifth if he's just going to slot someone just as shitty there instead? no matter what order theyre in, they both ****ing suck. they shouldnt be 5-6.

At this point you even have to try the bat boy batting 5th.

Granted we have no great options, but Delmon had his chance, and sucked at it.

Boesch will likely suck too, but I guess slow progress is better then no progress.

 

[kingofdetroit57]

I know it won't happen, but I wouldn't mind seeing Laird as the DH for a while since Boesch and Young suck.

 

[mhughes0021]

Question.....why does JV lose his consecutive games over 6+ innings streak if they called the game? Seems dumb eventhough i know he may not have gone back out....

 

[jas5lf]

Man a week ago we were 1.5 up and now this garbage... Oh well maybe we can start another roll with Rick on the mound...

I see what you did there.

 

[Thumb]

I know it won't happen, but I wouldn't mind seeing Laird as the DH for a while since Boesch and Young suck.

Yeah, but then you run into the problem if Alex gets hurt, Gerald has to switch to Catcher and the Pitcher has to bat.

If we had an NL style bench, that would be okay, but we don't really have much to PH for the Pitcher that would not be just as easy an out.

 

[kalinecountry]

The Red Sox placed Nick Punto and Carl Crawford on waivers today, according to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe.
Hundreds of players will be placed on waivers this month and only a small percentage of them will be traded.
mlbtraderumors

 

[grandy]

The sooner we leave this place, the better.

 

[kalinecountry]

Let's see if this bigbowelbrain ump jerry layne has the same k zone for Rick.

 

[kalinecountry]

Fielder's slugging average is down to .487

Tigers hitting .218 on the road trip per Dan Dickerson.

cook with 20 pitches.

 

[Thumb]

Did I hear Dickerson right? Cook has given up more HR's then he has K's?

How does this guy still have a job?

And of course, he shuts the Tigers down.

/sigh