In 50 games for Triple-A Toledo this year, Moya is hitting a solid.298/.326/.571 with 13 home runs and 38 RBI while also seeing a significant decline in his strikeout rate. “I didn’t have my best stuff”.
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X-rays showed Martinez suffered a “non-displaced fracture on the radial neck at the right elbow”, according to Chris McCosky of the Detroit News, who added a CT scan will be conducted Friday. Ventura easily has handled Nick Castellanos (1-for-11) but has struggled with Ian Kinsler (6-for-16) and has served up two homers to Victor Martinez (4-for-16).WALK-OFFS1.
The Kansas City Royals look for another win after winning five of their last six games.
Detroit Tigers first basemen Miguel Cabrera (24) reaches for the ball as Kansas City Royals base runner Jarrod Dyson (1) dives back safely during the sixth inning at Kauffman Stadium.
The Royals were in control until their normally staunch bullpen let them down. More home runs followed, including Martinez’s third.
Rightfielder J.D. Martinez left tonight’s game against the Royals with an apparent right arm injury after running into the rightfield wall on a triple by Paulo Orlando to lead-off the bottom of the second inning. But then the Royals’ relievers began throwing batting practice.
The Royals continue their home series with the Tigers Friday night at 7:15.
NOTES: DH Victor Martinez, who had not started since Sunday and received a cortisone shot in his right knee, returned to the Tigers lineup…. “But the most important thing was to put together a good game like that”.
He is likely to fill Martinez’s position in right field, a spot he’s familiar with and played 29 games at for the Mud Hens, but provides some versatility in the outfield in case Cameron Maybin’s quadriceps issue lingers.
He was a late arrival to the clubhouse after being called up from a rehab assignment Omaha as the Royals optioned Reymond Fuentes to their Class AAA team.
“These guys have an offense that if you make the slightest mistake they can put some runs up on the board in a hurry”, Royals manager Ned Yost said.
Tigers RHP Michael Fulmer has won five straight games, allowing one earned run over 34 1/3 innings, and has thrown at least six shutout innings in each of his last four starts.
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But they weren’t lacking any power without rightfielder J.D. Martinez, who will be sidelined for the foreseeable future with a broken right elbow, injured early in a 10-4 win over the Royals.
