Upton, who signed a six-year, $132.75 million contract this offseason, is hitting just.231 with 15 home runs and 52 RBIs this year.
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Justin Upton drove a ball to deep center field and started celebrating the game-tying homer, but it hit inches from the top of the fence, 420 feet away.
“I haven’t been told anything yet”, Fulmer said. “At the end of the day, no one wants to struggle, and I was kind of buried in it”.
“They’ve always been there to pick me up”.
Upton has been a major disappointment for the entire season, but hopefully Sunday’s performance against the Boston Red Sox are a major step in the right direction for Upton and his team. As he has done so often lately, Martinez got the better of Owens, poking a two-run double into right field. J.D. Martinez went 2-for-4 to extend his hitting streak to 10 contests for Detroit, which has lost nine of 12 to drop 3 1/2 games out of the second wild card.
Trailing 2-1, Cleveland tied it when Ramirez hit an 0-2 pitch from Toronto closer Roberto Osuna (2-2) over the right field wall.
“This was a big game, especially against a team we’re trying to catch, ” Verlander said.
The Red Sox jumped on Fulmer early, scoring four runs on a pair of two-run bombs in the first inning.
Eduardo Rodriguez was expected to return from a hamstring injury to pitch, but felt discomfort during Saturday’s game, so Owens was summoned from Pawtucket.
Detroit’s first run came after a crucial reversal in the second.
On Sunday, he came up in the third with two on and tagged Boston emergency starter Henry Owens (0-1) for his 14th home run of the season.
“Once again, he’s the difference in this one, offensively”, Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
– Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Danny Duffy quietly improved to 11-1 on the season after allowing just one run in 6 2/3 innings in a 2-1 win against the Minnesota Twins.
There was nothing magical that occurred during Justin Upton’s three-day layoff, nor are there any hard feelings about getting benched. However, in what became one of life’s great lessons for me, one should never make assumptions.
Neither side would manage much offense until the bottom of the fifth, when Cabrera’s two-out single triggered a double from Martinez and a three-run homer from Upton to make the score 8-0.
Detroit Tigers’ James McCann rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Boston Red Sox during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, in Detroit.
J.D. Martinez is red. I just want to perform.
“When you strike out five straight times, you have time to think about how the pitchers are attacking you”, Benintendi said. Justin Wilson blanked the Red Sox in the 9th.
“We’ve had a lot of battles, ” Verlander said.
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Unfortunately, nothing doing for the Tigers in the middle frames, just a pair of singles in the 5th that were quickly erased on two ground balls, one for a double play. In a moment of respect, the crowd applauded David Ortiz’s final at-bat in Comerica Park as he gounded into the shift. He tipped his cap to the crowd as he walked off. He would then progress to a simulated game before reporting to the minors for rehab games.
