The Detroit Tigers will look to get their crime back on track when they start a 10-game homestand with opener of a four-game series against Kansas City Royals on Thursday evening.
The tigers lost their last two matches-with 5-0 and 5-1 points on Milwauke-with their only run on a Spencer Torkelson Homer on Wednesday.
Torkelson has team heights on six homers and 13 RBI, but Riley Greene, who is considered the team’s foremost offensive threat, has been in a decline. Greene has only one hit in its last 32 bats.
“I know he carries the importance of the last bat to the next bat,” Manager Aj Hinch told Detroit News. “And as you go through these distances everyone is looking for solutions and you have many people in the ear. We just try to grind him a little and make him turn on better pitch.”
Greene is not the only one fighting at the plate.
“Offensively the last pairs of games we haven’t done much,” Hinch said. “When teams start to go several rounds in a row without scoring points, you all see trying to do a little too much with their bats.”
The tigers were also limited to a run in their series finale against Minnesota on Sunday.
“We just haven’t had consistent bats back-to-back-to-back and then deliver the big punch we have for most of the season,” Hinch said. “We have to restore, go home to a division opponent that we know well. This is the first series we have lost for a while, so we will wash this, come home and come to better times.”
The right-wing dealer Reese Olson (1-1, 6.00 era) starts the series opener for Detroit on Thursday. Olson allowed four runs in 4 1/3 rounds against Minnesota on Friday in his last excursion, a 7-6 Tigers victory.
Olson has made five career starts against Royals and published an 0-2 record and a 3.80 era.
He will be opposed by former Tiger’s right-wing trader Michael Lorenzen (1-2, 3.71 era), which gave up three runs in 5 2/3 rounds in a 6-3 loss in Cleveland on Saturday. Lorenzen held Guardian’s goal -free in the first three rounds and then allowed a single run in each of the next three frames.
“It was a frustrating game,” Lorenzen said. “Just kinds of step back, I think they were 5-for-6 at first pitch that was played with the SAC-Flugan (from Jose Ramirez). I think when you have games like it, they are frustrating. But if you go back and say, if I can convert two or three to outs instead of hits). “
Lorenzen made 18 starts for Detroit 2023 before being awarded to Philadelphia. He had stints with Texas and Kansas City last season.
Lorenzen is 2-1 with a 2.11 era in eight career appearance to Detroit, including three starts.
Royals are also raised offensive questions. They have lost three straight and six of their last eight matches. They have 16 runs during the eight-game stretch. They lost 4-3 to the New York Yankees on Wednesday while only generated five hits.
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