But Victor Martinez, after pulling a couple of hard line drives foul, connected off Tazawa to give the Tigers the lead for good. With Ian Kinsler on base, he left a splitter up to Victor Martinez, and visibly cringed as Martinez crushed it well out to right, once again leap-frogging the Red Sox.
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As for the Ortiz at-bat, Ausmus said of Rondon: “You don’t want to just groove one to David Ortiz in a one-run game”.
“You want to square the ball up every time you go to the plate”.
The Tigers hit three home runs in their 8-6 win versus the Royals on Thursday, their 12th game this season with at least three home runs after totaling 10 such games in the entire 2014 campaign.
C Bobby Wilson had a two-run double in his first at-bat Friday, giving the Rangers a 2-0 lead while recording a hit for the third time in as many games with Texas this season. According to Rob Bradford of WEEI.com, the Red Sox’ first baseman was dealt to the Texas Rangers on Friday for a player to be named later or cash considerations.
Johnson lost his starting job with the Braves this season and has a. 235 average with 2 home runs and 11 RBI.
Right-hander Bruce Rondon pitched the ninth to earn his first save of the season.Kinsler went 3-for-4 and scored twice for Detroit (54-56), and catcher James McCann also had three hits. Blaine Hardy (4-2) won in relief.
LHP Martin Perez, who missed the first 3 1/2 months of the season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, is scheduled to make his fifth start of the year Saturday.
Daniel Norris (2-2) gave up three hits in a 39-pitch first inning, including Ramirez’s double that staked Joe Kelly (4-6) to an early lead.
The Tigers, meanwhile, have gone through a tumultuous couple of weeks. The trade came after MLB’s deadline for trading players without putting them on Waivers. J.Iglesias grounded out, first baseman T.Shaw to pitcher Ross Jr.
Detroit fell behind 2-0 on Saturday but eventually prevailed in an entertaining, back-and-forth game.
In the bottom of the fifth, with a runner on base, Davis knocked out his third homer of the season to left field off Miley to tie the game at two.
J.D. Martinez tied it within the backside of the sixth with an RBI double and later got here house on a wild pitch. He roped a single to score Blake Swihart and Castillo to put the Red Sox up 6-5. “I think I earned it, and come back next year”.
Alfredo Simon, who had a couple extra days to rest a sore groin, allowed six runs on nine hits and one walk over 6 2/3 innings with one strikeout for the Tigers. It was his 21st home run at Comerica Park, the most of any visiting player. Today, he got two strikes with Hardy and he battled until he got a pitch he could hit.. He walked four, but allowed just one run and three hits. Swihart struck out. Rutledge was intentionally walked. “In retrospect, I wish I hadn’t done that”.
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Detroit optioned RHP Shane Greene to Triple-A Toledo and will purchase the contract of LHP Tom Gorzelanny on Sunday. And Tazawa, roughed up for four runs in his last two outings, made sure the Sox never needed to figure out whether newcomer Jean Machi would be a viable choice to close the game.
