Will the Tigers adjust? They managed to chase other frequent foe Sonny Gray after just four innings on Thursday night in their victory, so perhaps - for one night - it’ll be Ryan who’s trapped in the AL Central with the Tigers, rather than the other way around. (The cumulative stat hit minus-21 for Ryan last season, so he’s well on his way to topping that.) And sure enough, his four-seamer has been elite, with a minus-13 run value already this season. "But from that arm slot, it plays up a little bit, and then he has some good off-speed to go with it."Īt least this season, Ryan’s mastery has spread to other teams, as he’s in the top 10% of nearly every metric offered by MLB’s StatCast, including the two that are generally obvious when watching a game: Chase rate (97th percentile) and barrel percentage (92%). As Spencer Torkelson put it in April 2022 - back before we really understood how occasionally lousy the Tigers' bats could get - "You look on the board, and (his fastball is) only 92-93 (mph), not overwhelming," Torkelson told reporters. So what’s his secret? According to the Tigers of last season, it’s his four-seam fastball. Against the rest of the majors, meanwhile, Ryan posted a 4.09 ERA with 51 strikeouts over 123 1/3 innings. the Tigers and gave up two runs in 23 2/3 innings (a 0.76 ERA), while striking out 33 and issuing just three walks. Detroit in 2021, when he allowed six runs in 4 2/3 innings. But that’s inflated - a bit - by his first start vs. In his third season since joining the Twins from the Rays (in a rare trade loss for Tampa Bay, who got a couple months of Nelson Cruz in exchange for Ryan), the 27-year-old has a 2.54 ERA in 28 1/3 innings vs. Game notes: If there’s one pitcher who should be happy to share a division with the Tigers, it’s Minnesota’s Joe Ryan. I think we come back tomorrow - obviously some guys threw more than others, so they won’t be up for whatever it may be - but I don’t think it changes, approach-wise.THURSDAY'S VICTORY: Matthew Boyd bounces back, Spencer Torkelson delivers in Detroit Tigers' 8-4 win vs. The Twins aren’t used to seeing every reliever fail in the same game, and both Duffey and Baldelli sounded baffled at how Sunday’s game took a hard turn south once Hill departed. The bullpen has been effective for most of the season, entering Sunday with a 3.53 ERA that was sixth-best in the majors. It seemed like really regardless of what we did, it didn’t go the way we wanted.” They just kept putting the ball in play and having good swings. “Some of it didn’t play out great and some of it was probably just not being as sharp as we would want,” Baldelli said. Rosario hit a solo homer in the eighth - capping a game in which he ran the stop sign and forgot the ground rules on Jonathan Schoop’s drive down the line in the eighth, leading to a triple - but the Twins saw their five-game winning streak end. Smeltzer replaced Romo with two outs and the first four batters he faced reached, with two scoring. Romo went out for the eighth and gave up the tiebreaking homer to Greiner, a backup catcher who came in hitting. After Rosario’s RBI single gave the Twins a 7-5 lead, Duffey gave up two-out RBI singles to Jeimer Candelario and Castro in the seventh that tied the score. Willi Castro clubbed a two-run homer and Grayson Greiner added an RBI single off May in the sixth to get within 6-5. “We played a pretty good ballgame for about half the ballgame, maybe a little bit beyond that,” Baldelli said, “but it went in a direction that we haven’t seen very often.” The Twins led 6-2 at the time, with Rich Hill getting through five innings. 12, and it came on a day Baldelli didn’t start Byron Buxton, Nelson Cruz, Josh Donaldson or Marwin Gonzalez.Īnd it was an avalanche of runs against a Tigers team that had held the Twins to 15 runs over the season’s first six meetings. The Twins scored four runs in the fifth inning Sunday - and might still be batting if Eddie Rosario hadn’t ran through third base coach Tony Diaz’s stop sign and gotten thrown out trying to score from first on Brent Rooker’s bases-loaded double.Įven then, the four-run inning was the Twins’ biggest inning since Aug. The Twins have a chance to win four of the five games, but Detroit leads the season series 4-3 and has not looked overmatched facing the defending AL Central champions. The Twins and Tigers will wrap up this five-game series Monday with a Labor Day afternoon affair. “Every guy that came in seemed to give up something whether you wanted to or not,” Duffey said.
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