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Cleveland looking for second straight win over Detroit
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The Cleveland Baseball Club is looking for the second straight win over the visiting Detroit Tigers Saturday night at Progressive Field.
Friday night provided the Cleveland Baseball Club with some optimism heading into their series with the Detroit Tigers as they looked dominant in a 4-1 victory. The combination of Franmil Reyes and Zach Plesac proved too much for Detroit as Cleveland has improved to 3-3 on the year, tying the Kansas City Royals in the record department on the year.
The Cleveland Baseball Club will send Aaron Civale to the mound looking to build off his first start against Detroit last week. Civale allowed 3 runs on 2 hits and 3 walks over 7 innings as he came away with a win. It was the offense that carried Civale in that game as they scored a season-high 9 runs in the contest and avoided a sweep.
Detroit’s pitcher will be the one who was on the wrong side of their loss last week in Detroit, Tarik Skubal. Skubal gave up 2 earned runs in 5.1 innings allowing 4 hits and walking 2 while striking out 4. It was Eddie Rosario who drove in both runs with Skubal on the mound, a RBI single in the 1st and a RBI groundout in the 6th. The Tigers could find themselves in trouble though due to Julio Teheran being a late scratch Friday. Detroit had to use the combination of Derek Holland, Buck Farmer, and Michael Fulmer to get through the game. Fulmer bailed the Tigers out of a full on bullpen game by lasting 4 innings. This should take some pressure of Detroit’s bullpen to perform Saturday and Sunday.
First pitch is scheduled for 6:10 P.M. at Progressive Field.
With a sweep possible, Cleveland looking for 1st win
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It has been far from a stellar start for the Cleveland Baseball Club as they are looking to avoid being swept by the Detroit Tigers.
The opening series between the Cleveland Baseball Club and Detroit Tigers has clearly belonged to the home team. The Problem? This series is being at Comerica Park in Detroit. It was a 3-2 loss on Opening Day for Cleveland followed up with a 5-2 loss Saturday and things are not looking good. It is still very early in the season, but things are not starting off on the right foot. With Cleveland searching for their first win of the season they will also be attempting to avoid being swept by the Detroit Tigers and fall to 0-3 to start the year.
Aaron Civale is Cleveland’s starter Sunday as they try to regroup. Civale finished 2020 with a 4-6 record, 4.74 ERA, 1.324 WHIP, 8.4 K/9 in 12 starts last season. There are times when things look really impressive when Civale is on the mound and there are others that still show he’s a young pitcher who needs to develop. There are a couple of Tigers hitters with some success against Civale in the past, but in a very small sample size. Victor Reyes leads the charge going 4-8 with 1 double and 1 triple. JaCoby Jones is 2-6 with a double and Jeimer Candelario is 2-3 with 1 triple. Candelario is someone to watch Sunday as he started off 2021 with 4 hits in 8 at-bats.
Detroit’s starter will be Tarik Skubal, someone who struggled in his first season in the big leagues. Skubal had a 5.53 ERA, 1.219 WHIP, 3.1 BB/9, and 10..4 K/9 in 32 innings pitched last season. Cleveland had 12 at-bats against Skubal last season slashing .433/.433/.933/.1.367. This is an extremely sample size and necessarily indicative of how things will go in the future for when Cleveland faces Skubal.