“He’s had better outings lately, of late, and hopefully we can keep working him in tighter games, tighter situations and he’s back where he started at the beginning of the season”, Ausmus said.
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BOMBS AWAY: Ian Kinsler and Miguel Cabrera each hit home runs off lefty Jose Quintana on Thursday. He walked one and struck out three. There’s a three-game series in Cleveland from September 16-18 and then a four-gamer in Detroit during the final week (Sept. 26-29, so, sadly, not the final series) of the season. He gave up six hits and three walks, and didn’t yield a homer. He was able to stay in initially and eventually came around to score a run, but he was removed when the White Sox took the field.
With Cleveland’s loss, that means the Tigers enter Wednesday just three games back in the AL Central, which is surprising for a team that was 24-27 at the end of May.
But, exhale, X-Rays were negative, the Sox broke loose with five runs in the second inning and went on to stop the Tigers’ eight-game winning streak.
Josh Donaldson helped the Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-1 win against the Houston Astros, the Seattle Mariners beat the Boston Red Sox by the same scoreline, the Chicago Cubs outlasted the Miami Marlins 5-4, the Pittsburgh Pirates lost 8-4 to the Atlanta Braves, the St Louis Cardinals edged the Cincinnati Reds 5-4, the San Francisco Giants fell 5-4 to the Philadelphia Phillies, while the Los Angeles Angels prevailed 8-6 against the Oakland Athletics.
As he rounded the bases and the Tigers took a 2-1 lead, his teammates couldn’t believe it.
It was the fourth shutout of the season for Cincinnati. Opponents hit just.171, second lowest.
Teixeira gave the Yankees the lead when he homered off Steven Matz (8-8) with two outs in the second. It was the second straight start in which Finnegan pitched six shutout innings. But lately, a lack of home runs for Jose Abreu has been the team’s bigger issue.
The trade deadline is now part of the past without the Tigers partaking in any of the action. Quintana is 3-0 with a 1.95 ERA in his last five starts, including 6 2/3 shutout innings against Detroit.
OUR PICK: The White Sox are winless at 0-4 in Quintana’s last four road starts versus the Tigers and have dropped five of his last seven starts overall versus Detroit. Kinsler is now tied with Ichiro Suzuki for the seventh-most leadoff home runs in Major League Baseball history. Cabrera’s one-out single pushed across a run to make it 3-1 and Adam Eaton followed with a sacrifice fly.
The Twins have won the first three contests of the four-game series, outscoring the Indians 35-16 and outhitting them 48-27. Trumbo leads the major leagues with 31 homers.
HOUSTON – J.A. Happ pitched six strong innings, guiding Toronto past Houston.
Martinez came into the game batting.259 (7-for-27) with two doubles and two home runs in his career against Sale.
“Everyday I’m hustlin’, hustlin”, boomed the speakers at Comerica Park during the Tigers match against White Sox. Seven innings went by and the usually hot offense had gone cold, limited to four hits with Sale mowing down the lineup.
Romine hit one of two triples in the fifth – Cameron Maybin had the other.
The crowd wouldn’t relent, wanting a curtain call from J.D. well after his home run trot ended. Garcia hit two home runs against his former club, the Tigers, on Tuesday.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – One day after being one-hit, Tampa Bay bounced back with 14 while holding Kansas City to two.
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ATLANTA – Adonis Garcia turned a base-running gaffe into the go-ahead run in Atlanta’s victory over Pittsburgh.
