The West Coast swing moved up to Seattle last night. Jhonny Peralta's bases loaded triple punctuated a 6-run 7th inning and propelled Detroit to a 8-3 victory.
The big inning made a winner out of Max Scherzer. Scherzer gave up 2 runs on 4 hits in 6 innings pitched but with a pitch count over 100 seemed destined to be coming out in a tie game and a no-decision. Instead he came out with a 6 run lead. He improved to 3-0 on the season.
Brennan Boesch was 2-3 with an RBI double and 2 walks. Miguel Cabrera was 2-4 with an RBI and scored 3 times.
Detroit continued its recent trend of scoring runs in "non-RBI" ways. They scored a number of runs on Oakland errors in the last series, and last night they scored on another error and scored twice on wild pitches. RBI or not it still goes on the scoreboard.
On the downside Victor Martinez had to leave the game with a strained groin in the second. He singled in his only at bat and hobbled to first. Then barely hobbled his way into second on a single up the middle.
He may have to go on the DL. That hurts on multiple fronts. It takes a big bat out of the lineup behind Migeul Cabrera. I figure Boesch will move there. Martinez is also the backup catcher too. So on Avila off days a new DH and new catcher has to be in there. Detroit brought up Omir Santos to be the backup catcher as they make the DL decision. Santos got some regular playing time for the Mets a couple seasons ago.
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