A love letter to Leyland.
Tigers 9, Twins 3
The Tigers honored Jim Leyland on Saturday, so of course, they played a perfect Jim Leyland game. It opened with a Don Kelly home run robbery and continued with a a power heavy offensive assault that featured home runs from the two biggest bats in the lineup. Max Scherzer (8 GS, 53 IP, 2.04 ERA, 2.78 FIP, 1.5 fWAR) threw a bad pitch to Brian Dozier which ended up in the seats and kept him from going deep into the game, but he was otherwise able to keep the Twins at bay. They pushed across three runs in the second and then Cabrera launched a three run bomb which Martinez would match later on in the game. Al-Al and Joba threw scoreless innings in relief and then it was time for a #PhilCokeInning in which the only runner was erased on a fine 3-6-3 double play. The Tigers will go for the series win on Sunday with Robbie Ray (1 GS, 5.1 IP, 1.69 ERA, 1.77 FIP, 0.2 fWAR) taking the mound for his second career start.
The Moment: Don Kelly robs a home run in the first.
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1. If that Don Kelly play doesn’t make the Capital One Plays of the Day, then I am just going to stop watching MLB Network.
2. I had to work all night, 3:00 am until about noon. I was just finishing up when the game started and I was asleep by the bottom of the second. When I woke up Dan Dickerson was sounding disappointed about the Tigers’ hitting and I freaked. Then I checked saw the score was 6-3 and settled down, but then I freaked because Al Al was starting the 7th, I feared Scherzer was hurt.
3. Decent case for killing the Win when you look at Max’s line today and Justin’s line yesterday.