Minneapolis — Through the first 10 games of the season, the Tigers’ starting pitchers allowed just 10 earned runs. Those were the days. as When Jordan…
Minneapolis — Through the first 10 games of the season, the Tigers’ starting pitchers allowed just 10 earned runs.
Those were the days. as
When Jordan Zimmermann left the game Sunday after allowing five runs in three innings in the 6-4 loss to the Twins, the same starting pitchers had given up 17 runs in the last five games. Nine of those are on Zimmermann’s ledger.
BOX SCORE: Twins 6, Tigers 4
And the Twins hit him hard. Five of their hits left the bat at exit velocities better than 100 mph, including a two-run, line-drive home run by C. J. Cron that screamed off the bat at 113.5 mph.
For the second straight start, Zimmermann’s slider betrayed him. Seven of them were put in play by the Twins with an average exit velocity of 92 mph. Max Kepler in the first inning led off with a double on a ball that left his bat at 112 mph.
Of the eight hits he allowed in the three innings, five went for extra bases.
The Tigers, though, made a late run at the Twins, scoring twice in the eighth inning. Down 6-2, Jeimer Candelario poked his second hit of the game and Miguel Cabrera walked.
