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Game 95 Tigers vs. twins July 21, 2017

Sanchez gets his 2nd win. He is currently 2 wins in a row without a lose the only Tiger starter to have 2 wins in a row without a lose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time for a double summersault back flip in the easy chair. This team can drive a person, O heck, Harry send me a cold one, just madding.


Cold one arrived in time. I'm ok now.
 
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Victor Martinez homered in back-to-back at-bats and the Detroit Tigers knocked Ervin Santana out of the game in the fourth inning to beat the Minnesota Twins 6-3 Friday night at Target Field.

Martinez's home runs came on consecutive at-bats in the second and fourth innings. Both were on 3-2 pitches.
Both were line drives to right field. Both went more than 400 feet.

Anibal Sanchez (2-0) allowed three runs on six hits over 5 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out five.

Daniel Stumpf, Shane Greene, Bruce Rondon and Justin Wilson combined to allow one hit and one walk over 3 1/3 scoreless innings of relief with four strikeouts. Rondon struck out a pair of hitters on nasty sliders, and provided a scoreless bridge to closer Justin Wilson, who recorded his 11th save of the season and first since taking the loss on Wednesday in Kansas City.
Greene made his AL-leading 47th appearance and got two outs, giving up just one hit. He hasn?t allowed a run in his last 10 appearances, a stretch of 8 1/3 innings.

Tigers are 14-1 in their last 15 games at Target Field.
The Tigers improved to 5-2 this season against the Twins and 23-18 in the American League Central Division.

NOTABLE
Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera left the game in the fifth inning with a right clavicle contusion. X-rays came back negative and he is listed as day to day. Cabrera took a hard grounder off his chest in the bottom of the fourth. According to Statcast?, the groundout had an exit velocity of 103.1 mph. Andrew Romine replaced Cabrera, who went 0-for-2 with two strikeouts.

Tigers catcher and potential trade chip Alex Avila is 6-for-41 (.146) with 11 walks and 15 strikeouts in July. He's 1-for-16 since the All-Star Break, including 0-for-4 on Friday night.
He did have a sacrifice fly in the ninth to give the Tigers an important insurance run.

Mikie Mahtook jammed his foot into the bag at second base as he trying to scamper back after rounding the bag on a single by Alex Presley in the second. He was called out after he popped off the bag.
Mahtook doubled over in pain, but remained in the game and even waited out the subsequent replay delay while standing on the field.
Mahtook singled and tripled on Friday and is 9-for-20 (.450) in his last five games He also drew only his fourth walk of the season in 165 plate appearances.

Martinez, Nick Castellanos, Mikie Mahtook and Jose Iglesias each had two hits.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...535#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=491535
Boxscore.

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/det/video/search?team_id=116&tagName=Detroit Tigers
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers win over the twins.

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
V-Mart doubles up: Martinez's first homer in the second came on a 3-2 fastball and was crushed; it was his hardest-hit homer of the year, leaving the bat at 104.2 mph and traveling a projected 408 feet, per Statcast?.
After a leadoff double from Nicholas Castellanos in the fourth, Martinez again homered on a 3-2 pitch, yanking a changeup a projected 411 feet to right, leaving the bat at 98.1 mph. It was the 11th multihomer game of his career.
Martinez's homers were the 234th and 235th of his career, passing Molitor on MLB's all-time list.

"It's great. Obviously he comes to work every day and puts together good at-bats," Tigers center fielder Mikie Mahtook said. "He's had some bad luck lately, but he got those two balls pretty good. I don't think they're going to stay in any park in the league."

Sanchez gets Sano: After a two-out double from Joe Mauer in the fifth, Sano came to the plate as the potential tying run, and had hit Sanchez hard to that point, going 2-for-2 with an RBI single that left the bat at 109.8 mph in the fourth. But Sanchez wriggled his way out of the jam, striking out Sano on a splitter in the dirt.

ROARS
Victor Martinez went yard twice for his seventh and eighth home runs on the season. He?s hitting 11-29 since the All-Star break and has reached safely in each game.

Anibal Sanchez didn?t pitch deep enough for the quality start, but he kept the ball in the park and preserved the lead. So far, he?s performed as well as you could ask of your fifth starter.

HISSES
The slow decay of human bodies: Mikie Mahtook turned an ankle trying to return to base, and Miguel Cabrera took a ground ball to the collarbone on a bad hop. Mahtook stayed in the game, but Cabrera came out for Andrew Romine the next inning and is day-to-day. Sometimes the injury reaper will take you by a thousand cuts.
 
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