![]() ![]() TIGERS NEWSLETTER: Why opening acts are all the rage around MLB Live updatesĬan't see the chatter? Refresh the page or check it out on Twitter.Ĭontact Ryan Ford at Follow him on Twitter Read more on the Detroit Tigers and sign up for our Tigers newsletter. The Twins, meanwhile, get a division leader of their own, travelling to Atlanta to face the NL East kingpins for three games, also beginning Monday. Lorenzen has allowed one run with seven strikeouts and one walk in six innings spread over three relief appearances.Īfter today’s matinee, the Tigers ship out to Texas, where they’ll face the AL West-leading Rangers for four games beginning Monday night. 167/.333/.250 against him, but in just 15 plate appearances. Meanwhile, Lorenzen doesn’t have much of a track record against the Twins they’ve slashed. (Between those two place appearances, he popped out foul to the catcher on Aug. Short homered off an 0-1 pitch at Target Field in Minneapolis on July 10, 2021, then singled off Ober in the fifth inning at Comerica Park on Aug. The infielder is 2-for-3 in his career, with a homer and a single. One Tigers hitter who could be excited to face Ober: Zack Short. (The other two losses on his record came when he allowed four runs in five innings against the Giants on May 22 and four runs in 5⅓ innings against the Rays on June 8 - far from cardinal sins.) Minnesota is averaging just 2.63 runs per game when he pitches, with just 16 runs scored for him while he’s in the game - in 11 starts he has allowed three or less runs in nine of those starts, but is just 4-2 in them. That could mean he’s been a bit lucky, but with just 14 walks allowed over 62⅔ innings, he has made the most of said luck.īut, no, the Tigers’ advantage is that whenever Ober takes the mound, the Twins’ bats seem to go to sleep. 218 opponent batting average on balls in play (BABIP). Oh, not that the Twins’ starter is bad - far from it, as he’s mostly been dominant since his call-up from Triple-A in late April, with a 1.021 WHIP bolstered by a supremely low. Game notes: The Tigers (and starter Michael Lorenzen) could have a secret weapon in today’s series finale - Bailey Ober. DETROIT - Rookie starter Reese Olson struck out a career-high nine batters to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night at Comerica Park. ![]() ![]() The Tigers will then head down to Texas to face the Rangers, another team that feasts at the plate, while the Twins get a day off before facing, well, those Braves. The Twins’ offense doesn’t quite stack up to the Braves’, though as Friday night’s game in Detroit showed, they can hit mistakes a long, long ways.Īfter tonight, the Tigers and Twins wrap up the series with a 1:40 start Sunday on Bally Sports Detroit. Olson opened his big-league career with back-to-back games in which he allowed three hits or less over five innings, then was victimized for seven runs (six earned) by the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves. The Tigers will send rookie Reese Olson to the mound for his fifth career appearance the 23-year-old allowed four runs (three earned) over six innings on Monday against the Kansas City Royals, though he ended up with a no-decision in the Tigers’ 6-4 win. 297, a full 40 points higher than the Boston Red Sox at No. (The Texas Rangers lead the league in batting average off sweepers at. 226 off sweepers this season, which is actually seventh in the majors and well above the league average of. He throws a five-pitch mix with a 4-seam fastball (34.6%), a sweeper (21.7%) and a changeup (21.3%) accounting for the majority of his pitches. Still, López will be the one on the mound for the Twins, not Arraez, on Saturday night. 400 with multi-hit performances in 31 of his 70 games entering Friday. But while López has been inconsistent - four starts with one earned run or less allowed and four starts with at least five earned - Arraez has been almost metronomic in his pursuit of hitting. Game notes: The crooked numbers in Pablo López’s ERA can’t be fun to see for Twins fans the franchise, after all, picked up López from the Miami Marlins in the offseason for extreme contact hitter Luis Arraez in what seemed like a straightforward hitting-for-pitching swap. Tigers pitcher Reese Olson throws a pitch while playing the Royals in the first inning on Monday, June 19, 2023, at Comerica Park. ![]()
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