LHP Matt Boyd, coming up on a loose innings limit, will make just two more starts for Detroit this season…. Dave Reginek, Getty ImagesCarlos Santana #41 of the Cleveland Indians swings and makes within the third inning towards the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park on September Four, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan.
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Tim Hudson is set to retire at the end of this season, and it looks like he’ll be baseball’s active wins leader when he does. Kansas City would rally back and tie the game again. He became the second player with 15 total bases in a game this season. Dixon Machado then lined a 2-2 slider down the left-field line for the winning run.
■Oh, that bullpen: Blaine Hardy gave up a run on one hit in two-thirds of an inning. Medlen is 1-1 with a 4.38 ERA and eight strikeouts in his career against the Tigers. It appeared that Verlander, who had already warmed up for the first inning, lobbied the umpires to start the game – the field was still bathed in sunshine – but he didn’t get his wish. Contrary to what Cardinals fans often say, Molina is not the single most valuable or indispensable player in baseball, but his loss for any length of time would hurt the Cardinals.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on.
Morales hit his 19th home run leading off the three-run third, belted his 20th with nobody on and two out in the fifth and clubbed his 21st to open the eighth.
“Everybody else is helping us out”, manager Ned Yost said. “That’s really not what you want at any time when you’re pitching”.
It was maybe a width of a hair, manager Brad Ausmus guessed, but it was enough for both clubs to return to the field and resume play for extra innings. Gose walked on a full count. He has reached base in his past 16 games, hitting largely out of the leadoff spot. On a sharp flyout by Andrew Romine, Kinsler went for home and was called safe.
“It’s definitely a huge downer”. “It’s a, ‘What comes first, the chicken or the egg?’ sort of thing”.
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, you’re saturating me. Yes, Cueto was in the NL then, but his home games were in Cincinnati’s bandbox. Detroit’s Kyle Ryan (2-3) faces Jeff Samardzija (9-13) in the opener, and Randy Wolf (0-3) starts for the Tigers against Erik Johnson (2-0) in the second game.
All signs still point to Cueto taking the ball in Game 1 of the Division Series for a Royals team that has had the AL Central locked up for months now, and another strong performance next time out would go a long way in easing concerns. Cabrera has 73 RBIs this year despite missing six weeks with a calf injury.
Ausmus pulled him to tremendous boos with a 3-1 lead and two out in the ninth after Eric Hosmer’s single. On Saturday, the Tigers won their second straight extra-inning game versus the Royals, 6-5. While he will struggle with occasional bouts of walk-happiness, he’s been an integral cog in the Royal machine throughout the season with his 3.62 ERA, 1.31 WHIP and 140/67 K/BB ratio across 186 1/3 innings.
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-RHP Joe Nathan (UCL tear, flexor pronator tear in right elbow) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 7, and he was transferred to the 60-day DL on May 8.
