Eddings ejected Ausmus, who kicked dirt, threw his hat and removed his sweatshirt and laid it over home plate.
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He’ll serve the suspension Tuesday night in Detroit while his team plays the Twins. Gene Lamont will manage in his place. “Usually when I get around 60-70 pitches, it’ll get a tick or two of velocity off my fastball”.
The young right-hander gave up 7 runs and was pulled after getting just two outs in the first inning.
Zimmermann (6-2) had only allowed eight earned runs in his seven starts this season, but gave up seven more, plus an unearned run, on 11 hits in seven innings. “I thought he did a good job of sticking up for his player and obviously, he put on a little show”. With the score tied at 2, Trevor May came on and allowed hits to all four hitters he faced, including the two-run single by Iglesias, a two-run homer by Kinsler and a solo shot by J.D. Martinez. That proved to be crucial, as Castellanos hit a go-ahead home run in the seventh after the Tigers squandered an eight-run lead.
“It’s one thing to go out there and control it and back off so I can get deeper into the game but then I’m going out there without my best stuff”, he said.
Tigers starter Mike Pelfrey gave up a pair of solo homers and seven hits overall through 5.1 innings with three relievers putting up zeros. Someone’s gonna get fined, I think.
Kurt Suzuki homered in the second to pull the Twins within six, and Miguel Sano’s home run cut the margin to 8-3 in the third. Detroit has now won all four games against the Twins this season, with the two hitting the over in three of the four meetings.
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Mauer broke the scoreless deadlock with two out in the fifth when he yanked a 1-2 pitch over the right-field wall. He threw two-thirds of a scoreless inning in his major-league debut April 14 against the White Sox. He said he was on the hot seat when the club hit the road last week riding a six-game home losing streak. “I thought he went to the restroom or something”.
