Boston, MA (Wed., Sept. 10, 1975) - The Tigers blew leads in both ends of a twi-night doubleheader and were swept by the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park Wednesday evening.
In Game 1, the Tigers scored five runs in the first inning but were shutout the rest of the way in losing, 6-5. In the nightcap, the Tigers held a 2-0 lead midway through the game but ended up on the short end of a 5-3 score.
In the opener, the Tigers pounced on Red Sox starter Roger Moret for five runs in the first inning, courtesy a three-run homer by hot-hitting Willie Horton and a two-run shot by Aurelio Rodriguez.
But Moret got stingy and went seven innings, giving up no more runs after the first frame. Meanwhile, the Red Sox chipped away against Tigers starter Vern Ruhle, tying the game in the eighth inning and winning it in the bottom of the ninth on a two-out single by Carl Yastrzemski, scoring Rick Burleson.
In Game 2, the Red Sox scored three runs in the seventh inning to erase a 2-1 deficit and they held on from there.
Horton hit another homer in the second game, no. 25 on the season to go with 92 RBI. In his past 41 at-bats, Horton has seven home runs and 19 RBI.
Tom Walker got a spot start for the Tigers (56-89) in the nightcap. He pitched six innings and only allowed one run. Rookie Ike Brookens (0-2) was tagged with the loss, surrendering the three runs in the seventh in just 1/3 inning.
Detroit has one more game left in Boston, where the Tigers are 1-6 this season.
Yastrzemski had three hits in each game, going 6-for-10 with three RBI.
The Major Said: "No lead is safe in this ballpark, and especially when you score five runs in the first and nothing afterward. That's a recipe for disaster against this team in this place. And they didn't hit the ball out of the ballpark in either game."
Game 1
Tigers 500 000 000 5-8-0
Boston 010 003 011 6-11-1
HR: Horton (DET, 24); Rodriguez (DET, 6)
WP: Drago
LP: Arroyo (3-2)
Game 2
Tigers 010 100 001 3-9-1
Boston 000 010 31x 5-12-0
HR: Horton (DET, 25)
WP: Pole
SV: Willoughby
LP: Brookens (0-2)
Tigers record: 56-89 (actual 55-90)
Home: 27-44
Away: 29-45
Last 10: 4-6
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Game 136: Tigers Use Longball to Overcome Yanks, 9-6
Detroit (Wed., Sept. 3, 1975) - The Tigers hit four home runs, including two from Willie Horton, and were able to out slug the New York Yankees, 9-6 Wednesday night.
The Tigers fell behind 1-0 in the fourth but scored three times in their half of the frame, highlighted by Horton's first homer of the night, a two-run shot. Detroit added two more runs in the fifth, on a two-run homer from hot-hitting Dan Meyer.
After the Yankees pulled to within 5-3 in the top of the seventh on Bobby Bonds's two-run homer, the Tigers responded in their half with a four spot, three of those runs coming from Horton's second homer and 20th of the season. That outburst made the score 9-3, Detroit, and the Tigers held on from there.
The Yankees managed to get the tying run to the plate in the ninth, but rookie right-hander Ike Brookens got Walt Williams to fly out to left field to end the game.
Horton finished the night with five RBI, giving him a team-leading 78 for the season.
Ben Oglivie added a solo homer (8) for Detroit, his third four-bagger in two nights.
The Tigers (53-83) are 9-6 vs. New York this season.
Mickey Lolich (13-14) went eight innings for the victory.
The Tigers roughed up Yankees ace Jim Hunter, who was raked for eight runs and 12 hits in 6-plus innings. Hunter surrendered three of the four Tigers homers.
Detroit banged out 14 hits in winning just its sixth game of the past 25.
The Major Said: "I have no idea why we've had success against New York. That's baseball. Sometimes you have a team's number. Hunter leads the league in complete games, so to knock him out in the seventh inning is quite a feat."
New York 000 100 221 6-11-0
Tigers 000 320 40x 9-14-2
HR: Horton (DET [2], 20); Meyer (DET, 11); Oglivie (DET, 8); Bonds (NY)
WP: Lolich (13-14)
LP: Hunter
Tigers record: 53-83 (actual 53-83)
Home: 26-44
Away: 27-39
Last 10: 4-6
The Tigers fell behind 1-0 in the fourth but scored three times in their half of the frame, highlighted by Horton's first homer of the night, a two-run shot. Detroit added two more runs in the fifth, on a two-run homer from hot-hitting Dan Meyer.
After the Yankees pulled to within 5-3 in the top of the seventh on Bobby Bonds's two-run homer, the Tigers responded in their half with a four spot, three of those runs coming from Horton's second homer and 20th of the season. That outburst made the score 9-3, Detroit, and the Tigers held on from there.
The Yankees managed to get the tying run to the plate in the ninth, but rookie right-hander Ike Brookens got Walt Williams to fly out to left field to end the game.
Horton finished the night with five RBI, giving him a team-leading 78 for the season.
Ben Oglivie added a solo homer (8) for Detroit, his third four-bagger in two nights.
The Tigers (53-83) are 9-6 vs. New York this season.
Mickey Lolich (13-14) went eight innings for the victory.
The Tigers roughed up Yankees ace Jim Hunter, who was raked for eight runs and 12 hits in 6-plus innings. Hunter surrendered three of the four Tigers homers.
Detroit banged out 14 hits in winning just its sixth game of the past 25.
The Major Said: "I have no idea why we've had success against New York. That's baseball. Sometimes you have a team's number. Hunter leads the league in complete games, so to knock him out in the seventh inning is quite a feat."
New York 000 100 221 6-11-0
Tigers 000 320 40x 9-14-2
HR: Horton (DET [2], 20); Meyer (DET, 11); Oglivie (DET, 8); Bonds (NY)
WP: Lolich (13-14)
LP: Hunter
Tigers record: 53-83 (actual 53-83)
Home: 26-44
Away: 27-39
Last 10: 4-6
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Game 129: Tigers Get 10 Hits, But Lose, 2-1
Arlington, TX (Mon., Aug. 25, 1975) - The Texas Rangers and Detroit Tigers each scored in just one inning, but the Rangers put up two runs, the Tigers one, and Texas won, 2-1, at Arlington Stadium Monday night.
The Rangers scored twice in the first inning on three singles and a force out, while the Tigers pushed across a run in the eighth when hot-hitting Dan Meyer doubled, plating Gary Sutherland.
In between, Tigers starter Ray Bare (4-8) and Texas lefty Jim Umbarger dueled. Umbarger was relieved by Steve Foucault, who picked up the save after taking over following Meyer's hit.
The Tigers (51-78) got a lead-off single from Aurelio Rodriguez in the ninth, but he was erased when Leon Roberts bounced into a double play. Undaunted, Ben Oglivie stroked a single before Foucault got pinch-hitter Gates Brown to ground into a 6-4 force out, ending the game.
The loss ended Detroit's modest three-game winning streak.
Meyer had two doubles, making him 7-for-16 in his last four games.
After the game, the Tigers placed right-handed reliever Bob Reynolds, who pitched a scoreless eighth inning, on waivers and recalled rookie righty Ike Brookens from Toledo. Reynolds, 28, struggled since being acquired from Baltimore in late-May, posting a 5.94 ERA in 36.1 innings and giving up six home runs.
Brookens, 26, will be making his second tour of duty with the Tigers this season. He has pitched 12 innings for Detroit in 1975, yielding just one earned run.
The Major Said: "You get 10 hits, you should score more than one run. That's all I have to say, really. Ray (Bare) pitched his butt off. Umbarger was just a little better, I suppose."
Tigers 000 000 010 1-10-1
Texas 200 000 00x 2-9-0
WP: Umbarger
SV: Foucault
LP: Bare (4-8)
Tigers record: 51-78 (actual 51-78)
Home: 24-41
Away: 27-37
Last 10: 3-7
The Rangers scored twice in the first inning on three singles and a force out, while the Tigers pushed across a run in the eighth when hot-hitting Dan Meyer doubled, plating Gary Sutherland.
In between, Tigers starter Ray Bare (4-8) and Texas lefty Jim Umbarger dueled. Umbarger was relieved by Steve Foucault, who picked up the save after taking over following Meyer's hit.
The Tigers (51-78) got a lead-off single from Aurelio Rodriguez in the ninth, but he was erased when Leon Roberts bounced into a double play. Undaunted, Ben Oglivie stroked a single before Foucault got pinch-hitter Gates Brown to ground into a 6-4 force out, ending the game.
The loss ended Detroit's modest three-game winning streak.
Meyer had two doubles, making him 7-for-16 in his last four games.
After the game, the Tigers placed right-handed reliever Bob Reynolds, who pitched a scoreless eighth inning, on waivers and recalled rookie righty Ike Brookens from Toledo. Reynolds, 28, struggled since being acquired from Baltimore in late-May, posting a 5.94 ERA in 36.1 innings and giving up six home runs.
Brookens, 26, will be making his second tour of duty with the Tigers this season. He has pitched 12 innings for Detroit in 1975, yielding just one earned run.
The Major Said: "You get 10 hits, you should score more than one run. That's all I have to say, really. Ray (Bare) pitched his butt off. Umbarger was just a little better, I suppose."
Tigers 000 000 010 1-10-1
Texas 200 000 00x 2-9-0
WP: Umbarger
SV: Foucault
LP: Bare (4-8)
Tigers record: 51-78 (actual 51-78)
Home: 24-41
Away: 27-37
Last 10: 3-7
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Game 58: Livonia Kid Carbo Helps Sink Hometown Team
Detroit (June 18) - Bernie Carbo grew up watching the Tigers, and as a kid he marveled at the right field upper deck at (then) Briggs Stadium, so often reached by the likes of Norm Cash and Charlie Maxwell.
Tonight, Carbo himself deposited a baseball into that same upper deck, and in doing so, provided the margin of victory as his Boston Red Sox beat the Tigers, 3-2.
Carbo, a Livonia native, slammed a solo homer in the eighth inning to give Boston a 3-1 lead, and the Tigers couldn't make up the small deficit.
It was a local kid who hurt the Tigers with his bat, but it was a Cuban who baffled them on the mound.
Luis Tiant twirled eight innings of six-hit ball for the victory. Tiant walked one and struck out four.
Dick Drago pitched a fairly uneventful ninth for the save.
Carbo led off the eighth by drilling the first pitch from rookie Ike Brookens about five rows into the upper deck in right field.
"You have to be careful," Carbo said afterward. "That porch looks so close. It's easy to overswing. Fortunately I stayed within myself and got a good rip at it."
Carbo delivered for the 15 or so friends and family in the Tiger Stadium stands
Was the home run extra special because it came in his hometown?
"I had about 15 people in the stands tonight," Carbo said of friends and family. "So, yeah."
Joe Coleman (3-9) took the tough loss, despite seven strong innings.
The Tigers (23-35) dropped the final two games of the series after winning Monday night, and are now 10-22 at home.
The New York Yankees come calling for a four-game set to complete the 12-game home stand, on which the Tigers are 2-6.
"Another strong pitching start wasted," manager Ralph Houk lamented. "That's pretty much the long and short of it. Joe (Coleman) deserved better."
Especially since Coleman wasn't the one who grooved a fastball that Carbo crushed, as Brookens did.
It's one of baseball's odd scoring rules that gives the loss to Coleman, even though the eventual margin of victory was achieved off Brookens.
But any way you slice it, the Tigers are 3-8 in the 11 games after their five-game winning streak out west.
Thanks, in part, to a former kid fan of the Tigers.
Notes: Ron LeFlore (2-for-4 tonight) raised his average to .301, on the strength of a 14-for-29 hot streak...In the ninth, Drago walked Jack Pierce with one out but then retired Aurelio Rodriguez (ground out) and pinch-hitter Ben Oglivie (fly out) to earn the save...The Tigers committed two more errors, giving them 58 for the season. "That's not helping," Houk said of his team's leaky defense.
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Tigers record: 23-35 (actual 25-33)
Home: 10-22
Away: 13-13
Last 10: 3-7
Tonight, Carbo himself deposited a baseball into that same upper deck, and in doing so, provided the margin of victory as his Boston Red Sox beat the Tigers, 3-2.
Carbo, a Livonia native, slammed a solo homer in the eighth inning to give Boston a 3-1 lead, and the Tigers couldn't make up the small deficit.
It was a local kid who hurt the Tigers with his bat, but it was a Cuban who baffled them on the mound.
Luis Tiant twirled eight innings of six-hit ball for the victory. Tiant walked one and struck out four.
Dick Drago pitched a fairly uneventful ninth for the save.
Carbo led off the eighth by drilling the first pitch from rookie Ike Brookens about five rows into the upper deck in right field.
"You have to be careful," Carbo said afterward. "That porch looks so close. It's easy to overswing. Fortunately I stayed within myself and got a good rip at it."
Carbo delivered for the 15 or so friends and family in the Tiger Stadium stands
Was the home run extra special because it came in his hometown?
"I had about 15 people in the stands tonight," Carbo said of friends and family. "So, yeah."
Joe Coleman (3-9) took the tough loss, despite seven strong innings.
The Tigers (23-35) dropped the final two games of the series after winning Monday night, and are now 10-22 at home.
The New York Yankees come calling for a four-game set to complete the 12-game home stand, on which the Tigers are 2-6.
"Another strong pitching start wasted," manager Ralph Houk lamented. "That's pretty much the long and short of it. Joe (Coleman) deserved better."
Especially since Coleman wasn't the one who grooved a fastball that Carbo crushed, as Brookens did.
It's one of baseball's odd scoring rules that gives the loss to Coleman, even though the eventual margin of victory was achieved off Brookens.
But any way you slice it, the Tigers are 3-8 in the 11 games after their five-game winning streak out west.
Thanks, in part, to a former kid fan of the Tigers.
Notes: Ron LeFlore (2-for-4 tonight) raised his average to .301, on the strength of a 14-for-29 hot streak...In the ninth, Drago walked Jack Pierce with one out but then retired Aurelio Rodriguez (ground out) and pinch-hitter Ben Oglivie (fly out) to earn the save...The Tigers committed two more errors, giving them 58 for the season. "That's not helping," Houk said of his team's leaky defense.
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Tigers record: 23-35 (actual 25-33)
Home: 10-22
Away: 13-13
Last 10: 3-7
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