2019 Detroit Tigers First Week Recap

To begin the 2019 season, it seemed that the Detroit Tigers offense had forgot to head Commented [1]: past tense
north with the team. Throughout the first seven games, the young lineup has yet to break out Commented [2]: why dont we brainstorm first and
and has struggled with the big league pitching they have seen. Miraculously, the Tigers head gather data to prove what we want to talk about
back to Comerica with a 4-3 record and that has been large in part due to the stellar pitching the Commented [3]: crack a joke about how usually good
team has received from their starters along with some timely hitting from very unlikely our bullpen was on this stretch.
contributors. The Tigers offense has scored only 12 runs in total so far, but many of these hits Commented [4]: unusually*
have been extremely impactful including Christin Stewart’s game winning two run home run on Commented [5]: I will
Opening Day, Nicholas Castellanos’ game winning RBI single against Toronto and maybe the
two most surprising results of this young season, Dustin Peterson’s game winning RBI double
off of fireballing left hander Aroldis Chapman and Gordon Beckham’s game winning homerun to
propel the Tigers to a series win over the depleted New York Yankees.

The story of this team so far has been undoubtably its tremendous starting pitching,
highlighted by Jordan Zimmermann and Matthew Boyd. On Opening Day, Zimmermann pitched
6 ⅔ perfect innings before giving up a single to Blue Jays left fielder Teoscar Hernandez, and
went on to pitch seven scoreless on a very economically 70 pitches. He followed that up with
another fantastic outing as he held the New York Yankees to one run over 6 and ⅔ innnings
while racking up six strikeouts in a very hitter friendly Yankee Stadium.

Not to be overshadowed however, Matthew Boyd pitched one of his best games in a
Tiger uniform, as he bounced back from his subpar start against the Blue Jays with an absolute
masterpiece on Wednesday afternoon in The Bronx. Boyd pitched 6 and ⅓ innings of one run
ball with a career high 13 strikeouts. He mixed pitches beautifully, as his fastball and slider
helped change eye levels and has Yankee hitters off balance all afternoon. After his start, Boyd
leads the MLB with 23 strikeouts and will certainly be a centerpiece of any Tigers success this
summer.

To compliment the starting pitching, the Tigers bullpen has also been outstanding, led by
Shane Greene who has closed out all four Tiger victories so far. Relievers such as Daniel
Stumpf, Reed Garrett and even Buck Farmer have all had nice starts to their 2019 campaign,
and apart from giving up 3 runs against the Blue Jays on Sunday, Joe Jimenez looks like he is
carrying the momentum he had in the first half of his 2018 all star campaign.

Although expectations are low for this rebuliding Tigers squad, if they continue to get
similar results in their starting staff, along with a revival of their offense, this team may surprise
some people this summer.

Im looking up game logs rn

First zimm,
Talk about big bats if there were any
Then boyd
Then bullpen combined and maybe 1 name that stood out

****** im gunna summarize that for the actual twitter post

Edit it onto a picture and throw it on

Shit this is gonna be longer than i thought havent even done pitching yet

****** gunna try to build a website rn