“You don’t expect that”. Duffy is now 10-1 with a 2.73 ERA, second best in the American League. Jarrod Saltalamacchia brought the Tigers within a run in the bottom of the inning, belting a solo home run of his own to deep center field. They have won seven of their last nine at Comerica and are still very much in the playoff hunt.
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Duffy (10-1) was terrific again in allowing just three hits and two walks and striking out five.
The Tigers are a game and a half back in the Wild Card but sits five back in the AL Central to Cleveland. The former MVP had a string of three straight wins come to an end in a no decision at Seattle on Wednesday despite yielding one run and seven hits in seven innings.
NEW YORK – Chad Green struck out 11 in six dominant innings, Aaron Judge delivered again with an RBI double and Dellin Betances escaped a big ninth-inning jam, leading New York over Toronto. Kennedy said after Kansas City’s 3-1 win.
Tigers starter Justin Verlander retired the first eight batters he faced, but before whispers of a no-hitter could start, he hung a breaking ball to rookie second baseman Raul Mondesi.
Eleven years after his career ended, his son is on the board. I’m just going with the hotter squad…
It’s interesting that McCann has been Verlander’s personal catcher for most of the year, yet Verlander shakes him off as often as any pitcher I’ve ever seen. “That was a great feeling”.
Kansas City’s second hit came in the fifth inning, when Gordon hit another slider into almost the same spot as Mondesi. Gordon came into the game with a.205 career average against the Tigers ace.
Cabrera left the loss after four innings.
When Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was the hitting coach for the Colorado Rockies, there was a 25-cent fine any time a guy hit a home run in batting practice and then didn’t hit the next pitch to the opposite field. The offense didn’t hit Justin Verlander particularly hard, but they made their hits count, socking three solo home runs before adding on insurance late. Since he did not suffer that inning, Verlander made it to the eighth where he loaded the bases. Lorenzo Cain doubled to give the Royals a four-run lead. Rougned Odor was hit by a pitch to drive in the winning run.
A consensus top-40 prospect in all of baseball, Mondesi is now hitting.217/.230/.317 through 65 plate appearances with the Royals this season.
With the extra-cushioned lead, Duffy returned to the game for the eighth, and he got two outs before being pulled prior to the lineup turning over for the fourth time.
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Tommy Pham and Jedd Gyorko each homered to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Houston Astros 8-5 on Tuesday night.
