Nick Castellanos went 3-for-5 with one homer and five RBI as the Detroit Tigers drilled the Cleveland Indians, 12-2, Wednesday afternoon at Progressive Field. Tigers C James McCann has thrown out 57.7 percent of attempted base stealers (15-of-26). Schoenfield stated, ” If we hypothesize that these teams are otherwise equal (Detroit’s winning percentage when not playing the Indians is over.600), the odds of one team winning 11 in a row over the other would be.00049 percent”. Cabrera was out on the play.
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Such is the situation a couple of Detroit Tigers fans found themselves in Wednesday as their team was facing the Cleveland Indians.
Cleveland Indians’ Mike Napoli swings on an RBIsingle off Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Buck Farmer during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, July 5, 2016, in Cleveland.
Here are 13 Walk-Off Thoughts on the Indians’ 12-1 win against the Detroit Tigers Tuesday night. They also moved within 6.5 games of the AL Central lead, instead of falling 8.5 back.
The Indians dominance of the Tigers this season has been astonishing. “Going into a brand-new series having won the last game you played as opposed to going into a brand-new series after getting swept. If you do it good enough people start asking those kind of questions”.
Lonnie Chisenhall was 4 for 5 with three RBI while Carlos Santana and Tyler Naquin homered. He pitched six innings allowing five hits, walking two, and striking out two. Cabrera was named as reserve to the AL All-Star team earlier Tuesday.
Tigers manager Brad Ausmus joked that Castellanos should get sick more often, given his performance. “It’s not like we haven’t played good baseball”.
“I think they just made a better adjustment than I did”, said Tomlin of his effort after the third inning.
Lackey (7-5) allowed six runs, five earned, six hits and five walks in six innings, dropping to 0-3 in his past five starts.
Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera was ejected in the sixth after grounding out.
Chen (5-3) tossed seven innings of three-hit ball, spoiling Jose Reyes’ return to the Mets in his first major league game since a 59-day domestic violence suspension. Two of the cutters were close, but they were correctly called by plate umpire Tim Timmons. Rajai Davis pulled a double down the left field line, scoring Ramirez and moving Chisenhall to third. Cabrera, thinking the ball hit off his leg, never left the batter’s box and was called out at first. Granted, this was in garbage time, but McAllister was pummeled for four earned runs off three hits. “I didn’t see him but as soon as I felt that I wasn’t going to throw to first base”. Over the last 10 days, he has produced three four-hit games while batting.474 (18-for-38) with three homers and 10 RBIs. “It’s the second game of the series, we lost the first one, none of that helped”.
Though the latter pitcher’s injury was not believed to be serious, the Tigers seemed far more concerned with the right neck strain that was ailing Zimmermann. He was hitless in three at-bats before being ejected.
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Nick Castellanos: Three hits, five runs, and a run scored. He had surgery for a torn right labrum in November and began the season on the DL. “I was hoping it would hook foul, but it didn’t”, Tomlin said.
