Cardinals 11, Tigers 4: Death by a thousand paper cuts

After a series win in Toronto, in which each game was decided by a run, the Detroit Tigers in St. Louis rolled with the best baseball record for the start of a three player series. Well, as you say: “You have to play the games”, and the cardinals convinced the game on Monday evening with 11: 4 in a game that got out of their hand late.

Casey Mize Wende in the rotation appeared tonight (see below), and AJ Hinch opted for a small chaos with Sean Guenther as an opener. The former excursion of the Lefty was a goalless two-inside stay against the Red Sox a week ago, which gave up a harmless hit. In the second half he was a fantastic, albeit underestimated member of the Tiger 'Bullpen last year, with a tiny ERA of 0.86 ERA and Bonkers 0.524 whip in 21 innings over 17 excursions. This was his seventh appearance and the first, um, “start” this year.

Sonny Gray started for the cardinals, his tenth of the year. He has long been in Oakland, Cincinnati and finally Minnesota with unforgettable and successful years. (This guy goes around more than certain diseases that we can all call it!) So far it has been going decent in 2025, but two of his previous three outings were pretty bad, a sensational seven-in-in appearance with two hits against the pirates. As you will see, he mastered the ship tonight.

Guenther had a hard lot: a doubles and a single from Lars Nootbaum and Masyn Winn, which runners placed in the corners with no out. Dillon Dingler threw Winn theft on the second, which was practical because Brendon Donovan scored with a single NOotbarar for a 1-0 lead from Cardinals. After Guenther three batteries and two left-handed and not very good, Guenther was a place for Keider Montero, who was the sixth starter. Montero excluded Willson Contreras and then looked and then got that the Red Hot-IVán Herrera jumped out to the Shortstop and ended the inn.

In the second, Montero had a little difficulty with a walk and a double to put the runners in second and third place with two outs, but a flyout from NOotbarar suppressed the threat for the third time. He settled in third place for a 1-2-3 inning, which is beautiful.

In the meantime, Gray drove through the first four inner rings against the tigers and gave a single and a double, but nothing else and beat five. I guess he directed the ship from his previous start of start. He used a variety of sweepers, sinks, change and curve balls and kept the tigers out of balance.

After a few singles in the fourth runner had brought to the corners for St. Louis, Montero caught his spikes on the hill as he delivered a field and a wild one who scored Herrera from the third for a 2-0 lead. However, Riley Greene prevented another run (at least) with a nice diving catch for the third.

The hits off Montero always came with a trio of singles to start the inning and loaded the bases without it. A soft size of Shortstop achieved NOOTBARAR for a 3-0 point number, another to second Basi another The soft floor ball to Shortstop could not be transformed into a double game at the end of the inning and yes, a fifth run. Montero then took the matter in his hand and emphasized Nolan Arenado for the third, and baseball is stupid and I hate it.

A dough after the seventh Inning route, the game got into a rain delay; Afterwards, Montero traveled with a last line of 5 ⅔ Innerings, 7 goals, 4 runs, two walks and three strikes. He didn't give up much hard contact, but the cardinals kept putting the ball in the right place to cause damage. You know for a few days? You do a good job, but Lady Luck is just not on your side. Shake out, dresser. After Olson wants to miss a few starts, Montero will have a few more chances before the rotation will hopefully be completely put together again.

John Brebbia came in and the cardinals only lifted the thing: a few singles, a double and a thing and it was 10: 0. A sharp double later was Brebbia outside and Tomás Nido – yes, our backup catcher – was brought in to save the rest of the bullpen. He gave up a victim fly to make it 11-0, but received a strength to graciously end seventh place.

The tigers finally climbed in the eighth board with two singles and an Akil Baddoo double. They don't want to be excluded. It looks ugly. I mean, 11-1 looks pretty terrible, but 11-0 is almost embarrassing, isn't it? To lighten the mood here, we listen to Don Drysdale's call by Kirk Gibsons Homerun in the 1988 World Series.

I had never heard this call, just Vin Scully. How Scully lets Drysdale entertain the stadium after describing what happened. I wish that more baseball announcements would follow this approach.

Nido's eighth inning from Nido was three three-up three-up inning, which means that it is the best pitcher that the tiger ever had, and that is math, and they cannot argue.

In the ninth time, the tiger really made it a real nail: after a mistake and a single individual, double Andy Ibáñez to limit the lead to 11-2. Trey Sweeney hit a victim fly to achieve Spencer Torkelson for an 11: 3 number of points, and a Dingler RBI Groundout completed the rating.

The second game of the series is at 6.45 p.m. CDT (7:45 p.m. Edt) and it will be a Skubal Day ™. We hope that you can go a little better than this one.

Injury report

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Numbers and so on

• People have shared entertaining statistics about Tigers Rookie Jackson Jobe: He started eight times for the Tigers this year, and Detroit won all of these games. Admittedly, one of them was not exactly a great excursion in Colorado, but I think Sandy Kouffax himself had difficulty moving there.
• Sonny … GRAY? GREY looks more sensible to me. Is this the difference between Canadian and American spelling? Anyway, his actual first name is Sonny; It is not a nickname.
• Happy Victoria Day to everyone who celebrates! Her birthday was May 24th, but in many countries, the vacation will be observed on Monday before her birthday (or on May 24th on a Monday). In Canada, because it is the unofficial prelude to summer and there are often excursions for cottages and the like, and because these excursions often contain 24 packs of certain drinks for adults, and these packs in Canada are sometimes referred to as “two four”, and because it is in May, the vacation is sometimes unofficially referred to as “May two four). learned if they are not from here.