Detroit fell 6-3 to the Yankees today. New York hasn't lost a home opener since 1982. Curtis Granderson victimized his former team again, hitting a tiebreaking home run off Phil Coke in the 7th inning. Detroit and the bullpen got sloppy as a Brandon Inge throwing error led to a run scoring, and a wild pitch brought a run home. The final was 6-3. In addition to his homer, Granderson made 2 great defensive plays, robbing Will Rhymes of a single in the first inning and Brandon Inge of what would likely have been an RBI double later.
Inge was 2-4 with a double and RBI single. Miguel Cabrera drove in a run with a sac fly and scored twice. Jhonny Peralta had an RBI sac fly as well. But Detroit missed out on the big hits. They had the bases loaded and no outs against CC Sabathia in the second and came away with only that sac fly.
Justin Verlander threw 31 pitches in the first inning. He settled down but gave up a 3-run homer to Mark Texieria. He ended up giving up 3 runs on 3 hits in 6 innings pitched. He struck out 8 but walked 4, which drove his pitch count to 115.
Phil Coke took the loss, giving up the homer to Granderson in the first batter he faced. He gave up 2 runs, 1 earned. Coke is the 5th starter but with an off-day tomorrow Detroit won't need a 5th starter for a couple weeks, so that put Coke in the pen to get some work. He worked well out of the bullpen last year, and a lot of people think he was just too good there and will end up back in the bullpen before the year is out.
Brad Penny is getting the start on Saturday apparently.
New York hasn't lost a home opener since 1982??? Huh? They've won 13 of their last 14 home openers!
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