A day after enjoying his first three-hit game, Kim sat out the O’s 7-1 loss against the Chicago White Sox at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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Minnesota jumped out to a 5-2 advantage in the fifth inning as it roughed up Tigers starter Mike Pelfrey in his return to Target Field after three years that featured far more downs than ups in a Twins uniform. Joe Mauer went 3-for-5 with an R-B-I and two runs scored for the Twins, who have dropped four in-a-row. Collins directed an obscene gesture at fans after he lost a ball in the lights on a previous play in the inning which allowed the first run Tigers pitcher Jordan Zimmermann has given up this season. 387 with three homers during a seven-game hitting streak.
It’s unbelievable what a little hitting can do. Crosby pitched three games that season, but has not stepped on a big league mound since. “But facing him, we kind of know his M.O. Don’t make dinner reservations too early, all that kind of stuff”.
“We’re playing really well, but it’s not like we’re going to walk into Cleveland and they’re going to hand us the series”, Castellanos said. The Detroit Tigers sit 4.5 games above the Twins in the AL Central standings, the closest team to Minnesota. Nick Castellanos led off the second with his first triple of the season, sparking a four-run inning.J.D.
Saltalamacchia’s double into the left field corner scored Justin Upton from first base and broke a 5-5 tie in the top of the eighth inning.
DeGrom (3-0) overcame his first four walks of the season, pitching two-hit ball for six innings and leaving with a 1.02 ERA. Francisco Rodriguez pitched a scoreless ninth for his sixth save in seven opportunities.
Zimmermann (5-0) gave up one run and six hits with no walks and seven strikeouts over seven innings.
“This whole series he swung the bat well”, Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said.
When he exited the game in the fifth inning, he left Kyle Ryan with a bases-loaded, no-outs mess to clean up.
On his ill-fated decision to try for third on the final out, Sano said: “I knew I had a double, but I wanted to help the team win and I started running”.
The Detroit Tigers took a gamble this winter when the club signed Mike Pelfrey to a two-year, $16 million deal.
“At this point, there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t”, he said.
Fulmer was last season’s Eastern League Player of the Year, going 10-3 with a 2.14 ERA and 116 strikeouts in 21 starts between Binghamton and Erie. Ausmus said Fulmer was preparing to treat Thursday as a bullpen day, but the staff would discuss during Detroit’s off day whether to give the 23-year-old his second start. C James McCann was to catch nine innings at Toledo Friday as he works his way back from a right-ankle sprain. Nolasco, whose pitching performances have been a bright spot for the Twins this season, was good through five innings.
“It’s not just the bullpen, ” Melvin said. Zimmermann is the Tigers’ first Pitcher of the Month since Justin Verlander in April 2012. The Tigers had managed to score just five runs in four consecutive losses.
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Ricky Nolasco is scheduled to start at home Sunday, followed by Jose Berrios and Alex Meyer Monday and Tuesday in Houston.
