DETROIT TIGERS GAME NOTES WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS: 1935, 1945, 1968, 1984 Detroit Tigers Media Rela ons Department • Comerica Park • Phone (313) 471-2000 • Fax (313) 471-2138 • Detroit, MI 48201 www. gers.com • @ gers, @TigresdeDetroit, @DetroitTigersPR Detroit Tigers (76-64) vs. BalƟ more Orioles (76-64) Saturday, September 10, 2016 • Comerica Park, Detroit, MI • 7:10 p.m. ET RHP Jordan Zimmermann (9-5, 4.44) vs. RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (6-11, 6.19) Game #141 • Home Game #69 • TV: FOX Sports Detroit/MLB Network • Radio: 97.1 FM RECENT RESULTS: The Tigers opened their series numbers against the Orioles. Cabrera is ba ng .377 TIGERS AT A GLANCE against the Orioles with a 4-3 win on Friday night at (81x215) with 41 runs scored, 10 doubles, one triple, Overall ............................................................. 76-64 Comerica Park. With the game ed 3-3, Victor Mar nez 20 home runs and 59 RBI in 56 games vs. Bal more. He Current Streak ...................................................W1 hit a solo home run, his 24th of the season, to put the leads all ac ve players with a .458 on-base percentage At Comerica Park ...........................................40-28 Tigers in front. J.D. Mar nez drove in two runs and was and a .712 slugging percentage vs. the Orioles, while he On the Road...................................................36-36 3x3 with a walk, while Ian Kinsler and Cameron Maybin is second with a .377 ba ng average. Cabrera has hit Day games .....................................................31-21 each had two hits. Alex Wilson picked up his third win safely in 23 of his last 26 games vs. Bal more, including Night games ...................................................45-43 vs. AL East ......................................................19-13 of the season, allowing a run on two hits with two 15 mul -hit games. In 76 career games vs. Bal more, vs. AL Central .................................................29-30 strikeouts in 1.0 inning out of the bullpen. Francisco Kinsler has a .352 (109x310) ba ng average with 61 vs. AL West ....................................................16-16 Rodriguez pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his 40th runs scored, 19 doubles, one triple, 12 home runs and vs. NL ...............................................................12-5 save of the season. The Tigers and Orioles play game 48 RBI. Kinsler ranks third among ac ve players with a Tigers score fi rst ............................................49-16 two of their three-game series tonight. Following this .414 on-base percentage and fi h with a .352 ba ng Opponents score fi rst ....................................27-48 weekend's series against the Orioles, the seven-game average. Kinsler has hit safely in 32 of his last 37 games Scoring fi ve-or-more runs ..............................50-11 homestand con nues with four games vs. Minnesota vs. Bal more, including 19 mul -hit games. Scoring four-or-less runs ................................26-53 (September 12-15). Extra innings ......................................................5-3 AT COMERICA PARK: The Tigers are 1-0 on their One-run games ..............................................26-15 VMART'S CLUTCH BLAST: Victor Mar nez broke a current seven-game homestand, which includes Two-run games ..............................................12-11 3-3 e with a solo home run in the eighth inning of three games vs. Bal more (1-0) and four games vs. Tigers get quality start ...................................45-19 last night's game. The homer was his 12th career go- Minnesota (September 12-15). Detroit has compiled Tigers starter works 6+ innings ......................50-27 ahead home run in the eighth inning-or-later and his a 40-28 record at home and has posted a 35-19 Lead a er 6th/7th/8th inning ....... 57-7/60-6/66-1 third this season (last, August 9 at Sea le). home record since May 16. The Tigers are hi ng .270 Trail a er 6th/7th/8th inning ...... 11-47/7-52/3-55 (609x2254) as a team at home, while the pitching J.D. STAYS HOT: J.D. Mar nez reached base in all Tied a er 6th/7th/8th inning .............8-10/8-6/6-8 staff has compiled a 3.91 ERA (617.0IP/268ER) at Tigers out hit opponent .................................59-11 four plate appearances last night, going 3x3 with Comerica Park. Opponent out hits Tigers ...............................12-46 two RBI and a walk. Mar nez has now hit safely in Tigers and opponent have equal hits ................5-7 30 of his last 34 games. Since being ac vated from NOTES ON THE SKIPPER: Brad Ausmus is in his third Tigers hit home run .......................................62-38 the disabled list on August 3, Mar nez is ba ng season at the helm for the Tigers a er being named Tigers do not hit a home run .........................14-26 .400 (52x130) with 27 runs scored, 12 doubles, eight the 37th manager in Tigers history on November 3, Come-from-behind wins .....................................39 home runs and 19 RBI in 34 games. Mar nez ranks 2013. second in the American League with a .400 ba ng - Enters tonight's game with a 240-223 (.518) record average during that stretch, while he is ed for as the Tigers manager. TIGERS VS. ORIOLES second with 12 doubles, third with a .455 on-base - Led the Tigers to a 90-72 record and a postseason 2016 Record: 2-3 percentage, fourth with 52 hits and a .677 slugging berth in his fi rst year as manager in 2014, joining 2016 at Home: 1-0 percentage and fi h with 27 runs scored. Hughie Jennings (1907), Mickey Cochrane (1934) and 2016 at Bal more: 1-3 Jim Leyland (2006) in accomplishing the feat. All-Time Record: 1050-954-11 STREAKING: Ian Kinsler enters tonight's game with - Became the 14th manager in Tigers history to have All-Time at Home: 567-441-3 an eight-game hi ng streaks. Kinsler is hi ng .438 also played at the major league level for Detroit, All-Time at Comerica Park: 27-28 (14x32) with seven runs scored, one double, two home All-Time at Bal more: 483-513-8 joining Alan Trammell, Dick Tracewski, Billy Mar n, runs and six RBI over his last eight games. Kinsler's Bob Swi , Billy Hitchcock, Fred Hutchinson, Mickey streak is ed for the sixth-longest ac ve streak in the Cochrane, Del Baker, Bucky Harris, George Moriarty, 2016 Game Log American League. Date Site Result Winner/Loser/Save Ty Cobb, Hughie Jennings and Bobby Lowe. 5/12 BAL L, 7-5 Worley/J. Wilson/Bri on FULMER HOUSE: Michael Fulmer pitched 7.0 strong - Managed Team Israel in the 2013 World Baseball 5/13 BAL L, 1-0 Tillman/VERLANDER/Bri on innings in last night's game, allowing two runs on Classic. 5/14 BAL L, 9-3 Wright/Sanchez/Brach three hits with one walk and fi ve strikeouts. In his fi rst - Spent 18 seasons as a catcher at the major league 5/15 BAL W, 6-5 Saupold/O'Day/Rodriguez eight career starts at Comerica Park, Fulmer has a 2-2 level with the Padres (1993-96), Tigers (1996, 1999- 9/9 DET W, 4-3 A. Wilson/Brach/Rodriguez record with a 2.90 ERA (49.2IP/16ER) and 38 strikeouts. 2000), Astros (1997-98, 2001-07) and Dodgers (2009- 9/10 DET According to the Elias Sports Bureau, over the last 25 10)...made eight postseason appearances as a player, 9/11 DET years, only two other Tigers pitchers have had an ERA including two trips to the Na onal League STREAKS under 3.00 over their fi rst eight MLB starts at their Championship Series and one to the World Series. Last fi ve games: 3-2 home park. Mike Maroth had a home ERA of 2.44 a er - Ranks third all- me among catchers with 12,839 Last 10 games: 7-3 eight starts in 2002 and Jeff Weaver had a 2.76 home putouts, while he is ninth with 15,840.2 innings Last 15 games: 10-5 ERA in 1999. played and 10th with 1,766 games started. Last 20 games: 13-7 K-ROD PICKS UP 40TH SAVE OF 2016: Francisco Rodriguez REPLAY RUNDOWN: The Tigers have been involved worked a scoreless ninth inning in last night's game to in 67 instant replay challenges this season. Detroit #VOTEMIGGY FOR notch his 40th save of the season. Rodriguez has recorded has challenged 31 plays with four calls confi rmed, 10 40-or-more saves in a season for the sixth me in his plays standing as called and 17 plays being overturned. ROBERTO CLEMENTE AWARD Opponents have made 26 challenges with fi ve calls Miguel Cabrera is the Tigers nominee for the career, which is third most 40-save seasons in MLB history, confi rmed, four plays standing as called and 17 plays 2016 Roberto Clemente Award, which is the most trailing only Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoff man, who each overturned. There have been 10 crew chief ini ated prominent individual player award from Major had nine seasons of 40-or-more saves. Rodriguez is ed for reviews with seven plays being confi rmed, two plays League Baseball. The Roberto Clemente Award is the the American League lead with 40 saves, while he is ed standing as called and one play overturned. annual recogni on of a player from each MLB club for fi h with a 90.9 save percentage, having successfully who best represents the game of baseball through converted 40-of-44 save opportuni es. 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