The teams play the second game in their weekend series Saturday evening, with Matt Boyd (2-2, 4.71) facing New York’s Logan Verrett (3-6, 4.20). The 3-1 victory was a hard-fought one. They finally scored two runs in the seventh with the Tigers gifted them the pair with Mike Aviles failing to make two plays -one an error – and Miguel Cabrera turning what should have been a double play into a run-scoring fielder’s choice when his throw hit off Neil Walker’s head.
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“I was kind of in a way anticipating it a little bit”, Martinez said. “Every pitch was in the right spot”.
The Mets greatly benefited from a baserunning blunder.
Cleveland, which remained two games ahead of Detroit, has dropped five of seven.
Sanchez gave up a run and four hits with no walks. Mets’ manager Terry Collins went to his lefty, Jerry Blevins, so Tigers’ skipper Brad Ausmus countered with pinch hitter Ian Kinsler. “He had a great fastball and he kept his pitch count down”.
Of course, it’s hard to feel good about anything Mets-related given the daily struggles of the team’s batters.
Sunday’s performance lowered his ERA to 5.88 on the year.
If you were to see how Noah Syndergaard started the season you wouldn’t think that he would be 1-4 with a 3.99 ERA in his last seven starts.
In the eighth, Detroit again had runners on first and second with two outs.
With Martinez on second, Justin Upton on first and two outs in the eighth, McGehee hit a soft ground ball toward the right side of the infield that somehow found its way past second baseman Neil Walker and first baseman James Loney, pinballing into the outfield.
“My first thought was: Not again”.
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Jay Bruce tested J.D. Martinez, and that was a bad idea. Michael Fulmer starts for Detroit. He hit a fly ball to the warning track in right field in the seventh. “There’s no blame here”. “If the situation comes where we need to pinch-hit, it’s easier to pinch-hit for the DH and if he’s catching you got to hit for him and you got to put the DH in the game”, Collins said. Detroit are 9-1 in their last 10 overall and are 9-1 in their last 10 games on grass while the over is 9-2 in their last 11 interleague home games. Addison Reed (3-2) got the win in relief, and Jeurys Familia pitched the ninth for his major league-leading 39th save in 41 chances. He had a decent showing against the New York Yankees, but he’s back to his season long slump. Luckily, Jacob deGrom was having equal success against the Detroit’s lineup, holding them scoreless through the sixth inning. Kinsler hit a high chopper that he was able to beat out for an infield single, allowing Upton to score and tie the game at one.
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Carlos Carrasco (7-6) also bounced back from a poor outing and turned in seven solid innings for the Indians, who tried to rally late. They didn’t have a bounty of free-agents-to-be like they had last season with David Price, Yoenis Cespedes and Joakim Soria, but there are still plenty of talented players who could be turned into prospects.
