Tigers' pitching is still missing
It wasn't the wrist, it was the wruns.The runs, rather.
In his first start since getting hit by a line drive on the right wrist last week, Jeremy Bonderman was shelled for nine runs (five of them earned) Monday night while lasting 3 1/3 innings in the Tigers' 10-8 loss to the Indians.
The wrist didn't bother him, though -- not nearly as much as giving up six runs in the first inning after the Tigers had scored five.
"This is six games in a row that we've been pounded," manager Alan Trammell said. "That doesn't sit well with anybody. We need to stop this."
The Tigers have allowed 58 runs in those six games. They were hoping Bonderman would lift them out of the rut, but he might have developed a bad habit.
"Physically I didn't see anything wrong with him," Trammell said, "but I think right now Jeremy is overthrowing."
Bonderman (14-11) agreed he didn't pitch well but was surprised at the comment that he overthrew.
"When you get five runs in the top of the first inning, and give up six in the bottom, that's pretty terrible," he said.
"No excuses. I have to pitch better than that.
"But I don't think I overthrew at all. I wasn't trying to throw 100 miles an hour. I wasn't trying to blow it by guys. I was trying to make them hit the ball and put it in play."
Staked to a quick five-run lead, due in large part to Dmitri Young's second grand slam in three days, Bonderman struggled through a 39-pitch first inning, caught a glimpse of dominance in a four-pitch third, but more trouble knocked him out in the fourth.
Wasted in the loss were a five-RBI night for Young and Carlos Pena's seventh home run in his last eight games.
Source: http://www.detnews.com/
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