Detroit Tigers Baseball Blog » Francisco Cruceta http://www.tigershomeplate.com A blog about Detroit Tigers Baseball Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:00:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Tigers fall to the Athletics 3-2 http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-fall-to-the-athletics-3-2/ http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-fall-to-the-athletics-3-2/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:38:20 +0000 TrammelFan92 http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-fall-to-the-athletics-3-2/ It was a low scoring game on Monday night as the Detroit Tigers fell to the Oakland Athletics by the score of 3-2.  A Bobby Crosby rbi single in the ninth inning off of Francisco Cruceta gave the A’s the win.

Cruceta took the loss and is now 0-3 on the season.  Starting Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers piched seven innings and gave up six hits and two runs.  Cruceta just let his team down, and hopefully he will come out better next time and throw the ball better and get the job done.  The Tigers need to start winning these close ballgames if they want to get back into contention.

Both of the Tigers runs came in the sixth inning.  Curtis Granderson had a solo home run and then Jeff Larish had a rbi single that scored Carlos Guillen.  The Tigers offense only had five hits in the game as they struggled against Rich Harden and then the Athletics bullpen.

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]]> http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-fall-to-the-athletics-3-2/feed/ 2 Tigers score early then lose to the Royals 3-2 http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-score-early-then-lose-to-the-royals-3-2/ http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-score-early-then-lose-to-the-royals-3-2/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 03:11:31 +0000 TrammelFan92 http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-score-early-then-lose-to-the-royals-3-2/ The Detroit Tigers scored two runs early in the game but then were not able to push across another run in the game as they went onto lose to the Kansas City Royals by the score of 3-2.  The Tigers were much more less dead after the second inning and that allowed the Royals to come back and win the game.

Starting pitcher Nate Robinson three seven innings and allowed ten hits and two runs.  He took the no decision from the game as Francisco Cruceta took the loss after allowing a run in the eighth inning on a infield single.

The Tigers got rbi’s from Carlos Guillen and Matt Joyce in the game.  Guillen had a rbi single in the first inning and then Joyce had a solo home run in the second inning.

The Tigers continue to struggle this season.  I thought they would come out things and start winning games but it sure looks like I was wrong about that.  What do you think Tigers fans?  Are they going to turn things around before it is too late? Or is too late already?

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]]> http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-score-early-then-lose-to-the-royals-3-2/feed/ 0 Tigers come back to beat Papelbon and the Red Sox 10-9 http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-come-back-to-beat-papelbon-and-the-red-sox-10-9/ http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-come-back-to-beat-papelbon-and-the-red-sox-10-9/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 03:37:15 +0000 TrammelFan92 http://www.tigershomeplate.com/tigers-come-back-to-beat-papelbon-and-the-red-sox-10-9/ The Detroit Tigers scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Boston Red Sox and their closer Jonathan Papelbon by the score of 10-9.  Curtis Granderson had a RBI groundout and Placido Palanco had the game winning hit in the ninth inning for the Tigers.

The Tigers were led by Palanco who finished the game with three RBI.  Ivan Rodriguez wasn’t too far behind as he had two rbi in the game.  Carlos Guillen, Magglio Ordonez, Gary Sheffield, Matt Joyce, and Granderson all had one rbi in the game.

Todd Jones got the win for the Tigers as he pitched the ninth inning.  Jones is now 1-0 on the season.

Tigers starting pitcher Armando Galarraga was pulled out of the game after 5 1/3 innings as he gave up seven hits and five runs.  Zach Miner and Francisco Cruceta both gave up two runs as they pitched in relief.

It wasn’t the best outing by the Tigers pitchers that is for sure, they were lucky that the offense put up 10 runs on the scoreboard and pulled out the win.  We will have to see if this win will give them any momentum to carry forward into the next series.

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