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Game #141 of Season
Detroit Tigers (45-95) @ Boston Red Sox (90-50)
Pitching Matchup - Matt Boyd vs Martin Perez
The game was scoreless through 4 innings as Martin Perez and Matt Boyd were both pitching well early on. The Tigers would get on the board in the top of the 5th when they executed the hit and run perfectly as Victor Reyes was running with the pitch and Jacoby Jones would hit a fly ball high off the green monster for a RBI double as Reyes scored all the way from first to give Detroit a 1-0 lead. The Red Sox would answer in the bottom half of the 5th as the first two batters reached base and Kevin Pillar lined a RBI single to LF to tie the game 1-1. Boyd would get through the inning with no further damage and the game would head to the 6th inning with the score tied 1-1. Boston would take the lead in the bottom of the 6th when Mitch Moreland hit a flare into shallow CF for a RBI single to give the Sox a 2-1 lead. Ryan Brasier took over for Perez and retired the side in order in the top of the 7th. The Tigers were threatening in the top of the 8th when Maybin singled with 1 out off Brasier and Matt Barnes would come on to face Goodrum who went down to get the bat on a nasty splitter from Barnes and slapped a ground ball past the dive of Devers at 3rd base down the LF line for a double to bring up Miguel Cabrera with runners at 2nd & 3rd. The Red Sox would intentionally walk Cabrera to load the bases and hope for a strikeout or double play ball with CJ Cron coming to the plate in a huge spot. Cron would work to a full count but Barnes would go to the curveball and Cron would go down swinging for a huge strikeout for the 2nd out of the inning. Jonathan Schoop would step in with the bases loaded and 2 outs and hit the ball hard on the ground to the left side but Devers would make the play and throw to first for the 3rd out to end the inning as Barnes escapes the jam and the Red Sox still lead 2-1. Bogaerts would draw a lead off walk to begin the bottom of the 8th and JD Martinez would drive him in with a RBI double to extend the Sox lead to 3-1. Michael Chavis would drive in Martinez with a sac fly to add an insurance run and push the Red Sox lead to 4-1. The Tigers would come to bat in the top of the 9th trailing 4-1 with Brandon Workman coming on to try and finish it off and earnt he save for Boston. Workman would pitch a scoreless top of the 9th to record his 40th save of the season as the Red Sox win 4-1
* The Red Sox take the opener of this 4 game series with the Tigers by a score of 4-1
* The Red Sox improve to 91-50 and remain a half game back of the Yankees who won 7-4 at baltimore. The Tigers fall to 45-96
* Martin Perez pitched 6 strong innings allowing 1 run on 6 hits with 3 Ks to earn the win and claw back to .500 on the season at 7-7 with a 5.05 ERA as he has pitched well down the stretch and will likely be the #4 starter for Boston in the post season unless Collin McHugh gets hot over the final few weeks
* Matt Boyd pitched well for Detroit throwing 6 innigns allowing 2 runs on 7 hits with 8 Ks but took the loss to fall to 4-16 with a 4.73 ERA
* JD Martinez went 1 for 4 with a RBI double to pick up his 125th RBI of the season while Mitch Moreland went 1 for 4 with a RBI to pick up his 105th RBI of the season
* Kevin Pillar went 2 for 3 as he continues to hit in the second half of the season and has lifted his average to .279
* Matt Barnes pitched the Red Sox out of a jam in the top of the 8th and has been lights out in the second half of the season after a shaky first half and has lowered his ERA down to 2.98
* Brandon Workman bounced back from his blown save against the Yankees in the last game to pitch a scoreless 9th inning and record his 40th save of the season
* The Red Sox and Tigers will play the second game of this 4 game series tomorrow and Nathan Eovaldi will take the mound for Boston against Jordan Zimmerman for Detroit. Eovaldi is coming off his no-hitter against Detroit in his last outing and it will be interesting to see if the Tigers can figure him out this time around
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/osdyn.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td align="center" colspan="13">Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="40%">Sep 4, 2020</td><td align="right" width="5%">1</td><td align="right" width="5%">2</td><td align="right" width="5%">3</td><td align="right" width="5%">4</td><td align="right" width="5%">5</td><td align="right" width="5%">6</td><td align="right" width="5%">7</td><td align="right" width="5%">8</td><td align="right" width="5%">9</td><td align="right" width="5%">R</td><td align="right" width="5%">H</td><td align="right" width="5%">E</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Detroit (45-96)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">1</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Boston (91-50)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">X</td><td align="right" class="active">4</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" colspan="13"><b>W:</b> Martin Perez (7-7) <b>L:</b> Matt Boyd (4-16) <b>S:</b> Brandon Workman (40)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td colspan="5">Scoring Summary</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td colspan="3" width="84%">SCORING DETAILS</td><td align="right" width="8%">DET</td><td align="right" width="8%">BOS</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">DET</td><td align="center" width="7%">5</td><td width="70%">Jacoby Jones doubled to LF (Reyes scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">5</td><td width="70%">Kevin Pillar singled to LF (Chavis scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">6</td><td width="70%">Mitch Moreland singled to CF (Bogaerts scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">8</td><td width="70%">JD Martinez doubled to RF (Bogaerts scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">8</td><td width="70%">Michael Chavis sac fly to CF (Martinez scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#001641" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FC5B19">Detroit Tigers</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Maybin, RF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.255</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Goodrum, 3B</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.263</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Cabrera, 1B</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.318</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Cron, DH</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.246</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Schoop, 2B</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.229</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Lugo, SS</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.252</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Romine, C</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.239</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Reyes, LF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.278</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Jones, CF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.252</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">35</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Jones (26), Goodrum (20)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Jones (57)<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Lugo</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#ee1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Benintendi, LF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.262</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Devers, 3B</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.263</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Bogaerts, SS</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.296</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Martinez, DH</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.317</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Moreland, 1B</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.310</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Chavis, 2B</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.270</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Vazquez, C</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.270</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Pillar, RF</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.279</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Bradley, CF</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.217</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">31</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Bogaerts (49), Martinez (43)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Martinez (125), Moreland (105), Chavis (74), Pillar (34)<br /><b>HBP:</b> Chavis<br /><b>SF:</b> Chavis</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#001641" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FC5B19">Detroit Tigers</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Matt Boyd (L, 4-16)</td><td align="right">6.0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">4.73</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Tyler Alexander</td><td align="right">2.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">6.65</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">8.0</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Boyd - 84 Pitches / 70% Strikes</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#ee1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Martin Perez (W, 7-7)</td><td align="right">6.0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">5.05</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Ryan Brasier (H, 11)</td><td align="right">1.1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.10</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Matt Barnes (H, 19)</td><td align="right">0.2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.98</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Brandon Workman (S, 40)</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">3.25</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">9.0</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Perez - 76 Pitches / 68% Strikes</td></tr></table></body></html>
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