Detroit Tigers (5-5) vs. Boston Red Sox (6-0) in a Grapefruit League game
When: 13:05 Monday.
Where: JetBlue field in Fort Myers, Florida.
TV: Nobody.
Radio: Nobody (Branches of radio “Tigers”).
Starting pitchers: Tigers RHP Matt Manning (0-0, 4.50 ERA) vs Red Sox LHP Chris Sale (0-1, 3.18 ERA in 2022).
• Box score.
SUNDAY PROMOTION: Jake Rogers goes deep, shows his cannon behind the plate in a 6-2 loss
JEFF SEIDEL:Tigers are ready to go to any extent to get better, even into a frozen river.
The composition of the tigers: to be specified.
Game Notes: The Tigers continue their two-day sojourn on Florida’s South Gulf Coast with a game against the Red Sox, who have had a confusing offseason to say the least. Gone are shortstop Xander Bogaerts and designated hitter JD Martinez, who have gone free (to the Padres and Dodgers respectively), now worn in red by third baseman Justin Turner, shortstop Adalberto Mondesi, right-hander Corey Kluber, outfielder Adam Duvall and closer Kenley Jansen. In case you’re wondering, Mondesi is the only one of that group under 20 and has just one completely healthy season in his career – and even that was just 59 games in the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign.
Speaking of healthy, often injured (and often angry) southpaw Chris Sale makes his first start in the spring. Sale has played just 11 matches since the end of the 2019 season. Tommy John’s surgery cost him all but nine of 2020 and all but nine starts in 2021. He missed the start of the 2022 season with a broken rib, returning in July for 5 2/3 innings – a five-inning start and then a two-out appearance. ended with a comebacker who broke his serving finger. While he was recovering from this, Sale died on the bike, suffering a right wrist injury that required surgery and cost him the rest of the season. Finally, someone whose injury history makes the 2022 Tigers look healthy! (Fine, almost.)
In that five-inning start against the Rays on July 12, Sale did what he always did, finishing in the top six in Cy Young’s vote seven times (albeit without winning): getting strikeouts instead of hitting because he had five K’s and just one walk, allowing for three hits and no earned runs. However, one of the batters he has struggled against the most is Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera. The batter, who is set to play for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic starting this week, has a .291/.409/.546 slash line in 66 games against Sale, though, again, none since 2019, which feels like a lifetime. back for both vets.
After today, the Tigers return home to Lakeland to host the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday and the Washington Nationals on Wednesday (in a game at Bally Sports Detroit). Meanwhile, the BoSox hit the road to face the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night.
JEFF SEIDEL:Detroit Tigers enter baseball’s new era, but still hail Jim Leyland, king of the old school
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This article originally appeared in the Detroit Free Press: Detroit Tigers vs. Boston Red Sox spring practice score: Time, TV
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