500 for the first time this season when they host the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series.
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The Blue Jays (42-40) lead the majors in runs (447) and slugging percentage (.447) but face David Price, who is 6-0 with a 3.07 ERA in his last eight starts against them.
Cabrera’s RBI single put the Tigers ahead in the first, then broke open the game in a five-run fourth.
The runner on first base was Tigers superstar Miguel Cabrera, and when Cabrera broke for second, he came up lame and was later diagnosed with a strained calf muscle. Of course, Cabrera will still have all of September (generally his favorite month of the year) to get the Tigers back in the pennant race should he have to. “Right now, he’s not on the radar”, Ausmus said…. You can’t get down about it. If anything you look at it as a challenge and say, ‘Let’s go.’. Ryan Tepera came in to close out the sixth and pitched 1.1 innings.
While Dickey didn’t exactly settle down after that, he got out of trouble more effectively thanks to a couple double plays and heads-up plays by the infielders.
Detroit jumped on Blue Jays starter R.A. Dickey for four runs in the first inning, highlighted by Martinez’s two-run homer and James McCann’s run-scoring triple.
Cabrera is leading the AL with a. 350 batting average and has 15 homers and 54 RBIs.
That being said, the Detroit Tigers without Miguel Cabrera are hardly the Detroit Tigers that have been perennial playoff contenders in years past.
Sanchez walked two batters, including Jose Bautista in the seventh, and has thrown 90 pitches. He allowed two runs and three hits in 6 1/3 innings. “We can score a bunch of runs in the blink of an eye, but it is tough to dig yourself out of that hole”.
Joakim Soria gave up a two-out single to Goins in the ninth, but recorded his 18th save. “That’s all that counts”. That spelled the difference for Koehler (7-4), who allowed five hits and an earned run in his six innings while striking out four and walking one for the Marlins, who have won four straight games.
The season has been shaky enough, between a sorry-looking bullpen and Tigers bats that go silent far too often. With the bases loaded, Nick Castellanos lined a ball into shallow left-center and it bounced out of Carrera’s glove as the left fielder tried for a diving catch. It proved to be a costly out when Yoenis Cespedes followed with a single to left field and scored Anthony Gose. “There’s been stretches over the years where he’s had to sit because we were trying to get him healthy for the end of the year”.
“He’s run into the top dogs, that’s for sure”, Gibbons said.
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DETROIT (AP) – The Detroit Tigers have designated veteran relievers Joba Chamberlain and Tom Gorzelanny for assignment and activated catcher Alex Avila off the disabled list.
