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Detroit Lions CB Carlton Davis OK after late injury scare; footing issues at Ford Field
Detroit Lions fans hyped as Jared Goff enters Ford Field before season opener
Jared Goff enters Ford Field for warmups just under an hour before kickoff, Lions fans respond by chanting his name before Rams opener, Sept. 8, 2024.
Carlton Davis simply got the wind knocked out of him.
Davis left the Detroit Lions’ 26-20 win over the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday on the second-to-last play of regulation after dropping an interception that might have kept the game from going to overtime at Ford Field.
Davis stayed hunched on the ground for about a minute and was tended to by trainers before walking off the field under his own power.
“Shoulda caught the ball,” Davis said after the game. “It hit my stomach and knocked the wind out of me.”
Ennis Rakestraw Jr. replaced him and played the final snap of regulation, when Aidan Hutchinson sacked Matthew Stafford, and the Lions won the overtime coin toss and scored a touchdown to end the game.
Davis would have been able to return had the Lions needed him on defense, and indicated he’ll be fine for next Sunday’s game against his old team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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An offseason trade acquisition, Davis made 10 tackles in his Lions debut but said he and the Lions’ new-look secondary need to be more opportunistic going forward. He dropped a would-be interception on an overthrown Stafford pass with 11 seconds to play. Had Davis held onto the ball, the Lions would have taken possession near midfield with one timeout.
Safety Brian Branch also dropped an interception, and the Lions allowed Stafford to complete 34 of 49 passes for 317 yards on a day he played behind a severely shorthanded offensive line, and lost Pro Bowl receiver Puka Nacua to injury.
“I thought we played good as a secondary for sure,” Davis said. “Like I said, we want to be perfect, we want to be the best in the league so we’ve got to be better and be more opportunistic, especially with the ball. We just had too many dropped picks. But overall we kept the score down, 20, we just got to get better, work on the little things. First game out, we’re still building on chemistry in the back end but it’s coming together.”
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Slip and slide at Ford Field
Several Lions players had issues with their footing Sunday, slipping at times on the Ford Field turf.
Jahmyr Gibbs stumbled as he ran open in the Rams’ secondary with just over a minute to play, causing Jared Goff to sail a would-be touchdown over his head. Amon-Ra St. Brown slipped on an in-breaking route later in the same drive, and Kalif Raymond lost his footing on a third-down incompletion before the Lions settled for the game-tying field goal.
Lions running back David Montgomery said he slipped on multiple occasions Sunday, but said it wasn’t an issue with the Ford Field turf.
“I definitely was slipping,” he said. “Got to get my feet under me, play more on my toes. That can’t be an excuse to why I slip. I just got to be sure I get my feet under me and I’ll do that.”
Wide receiver Jameson Williams said he thought some of the issue was the Lions playing on turf for one of the first times this preseason.
“I wouldn’t say it was slippery,” he said. “But it’s first game being on turf for a lot of us. Some of us didn’t play in the preseason so we just like getting back to the turf feel. We practice on grass a lot so that may be a thing. I’m not really sure about the turf. I think it was OK. I don’t really know. I didn’t slip.”
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DETROIT, MICH (WXYZ) — In partnership with The ALS Association, downtown Detroit parks will shine red May 10–16 in recognition of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) Awareness month.
A special kickoff event will take place from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 10, in Campus Martius Park. The event will allow families impacted by ALS to connect, learn about upcoming initiatives, and take part in a meaningful “END ALS” photo moment under the illuminated park lights.
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Detroit Tigers blow lead, lose to Kansas City Royals on walk-off hit.
The Tigers lost, 4-3, to the Royals on Kyle Isbel’s walk-off single in the ninth inning.
Kansas City, Mo. — The losing streak is now five games. The road record is now an MLB-worst 6-16.
The Kansas City Royals prolonged the Tigers’ misery Saturday night with a relatively breezy 5-1 win at Kauffman Stadium.
Oh, and the Tigers might’ve lost another player in the process.
Right fielder Kerry Carpenter left the game in the third inning. He banged his left shoulder running into the side wall chasing Bobby Witt Jr.’s first-inning, two-run, inside-the-park home run.
Witt, a right-handed hitter, sliced a drive inside the bag at first. Carpenter chased it toward the side wall, but the ball caromed past him. Witt never stopped running.
Carpenter stayed in the game and even rolled an infield single in the second inning. But he was replaced by Wenceel Perez when the Royals came to bat in the third inning.
BOX SCORE: Royals 5, Tigers 1
He was being evaluated during the game.
The two-run homer by Witt ended up being more than the Tigers’ sputtering offense could overcome. But, for good measure, Michael Massey added a three-run home run off Ty Madden in the fourth inning.
Madden ended up being one of the few bright spots in the game for the Tigers. He pitched six innings and allowed just one other hit. He set down the last 11 hitters he faced.
He entered in the third inning after opener Burch Smith and lefty Tyler Holton worked one time through the Royals’ batting order.
Holton made a nifty escape in the first inning. With runners at second and third and one out, and two runs already in, Jac Caglianone hit a hard ground ball to second baseman Zach McKinstry, who was playing in on the grass.
McKinstry got the out at first. The runner at second, Carter Jensen, mistakenly broke for third where Vinnie Pasquantino was holding.
Spencer Torkelson threw to shortstop Kevin McGonigle who threw to catcher Jake Rogers once Pasquantino broke for home — your basic 4-3-6-2 double-play.
Not much else went the Tigers’ way.
Royals right-hander Michael Wacha snuffed out the few scoring opportunities the Tigers mustered.
He worked around an error and a McKinstry stolen base in the third innings. He got Jake Rogers to pop to shallow right field with runners at first and third and one out and then got Matt Vierling to ground out with the bases loaded in the fifth.
Wacha allowed two hits in seven innings. The Tigers put 18 balls in play against him with a soft average exit velocity of 84.4 mph.
The Tigers broke through in the eighth against lefty reliever Matt Strahm. And it was left-handed hitters who did the dirty work. Riley Greene, who extended his career-high on-base streak to 20 games, doubled home McGonigle.
This season is a long way from over but Tigers, 18-22, are in serious need a course correction.
Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com
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4Warn Weather – SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy skies. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. A few storms could be strong with gusty winds and hail. High: 71.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy skies, becoming partly cloudy skies late. Low: 45.
SUNDAY (MOTHER’S DAY): Mix of sunshine and clouds, cooler temperatures. High: 61.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy skies. Another chilly night. Low: 41.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny skies, remaining chilly. High: 58.
After a beautiful end to the week on Friday with sunshine and a little cloud cover, with warmer temperatures moving into the region as well, some of us are waking up to some patchy dense fog on Saturday morning. Some places south of M-59 are seeing reduced visibilities down to around a mile. If you do run into some patchy dense fog, be sure to use your low beams.
That warming trend continues into the start of the weekend on Saturday, but it also brings a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Another cold front will work through the region by Saturday afternoon and early Saturday evening and that will bring our thunderstorm chance. High temperature is warming into low 70s by Saturday afternoon.
The Storm Prediction Center has placed most of the region under a Marginal Risk (1 out of 5) on our severe weather scale for the start of the weekend. Gusty winds and hail are the primary threats as we work through the start of the weekend, but this will not be a widespread threat for severe thunderstorms.
Behind that cold front for the end of the weekend on Sunday, we will keep a mixture of sunshine and clouds into the forecast. High temperatures running about 10 to 15° cooler to end the weekend. Expect high to warm into the upper 50s to lower 60s by Sunday afternoon.
Drier weather sticks around for the start of next week, before another chance of rain moves into the region by the time we get to Tuesday. The cooler-than-average temperatures will continue into the start of next week as well. Expect high temperatures to remain in the 50s for Monday and Tuesday.
Temperature start to warm up by the middle of next week, and Drier weather moves back in by Wednesday behind another cold front moving into the region. Expect high temperatures into the lower 60s on Wednesday to warm into the upper 60s by the time we get to Thursday. Above average temperatures move back into the region as we look ahead into the end of the week, expect high temperatures back into the lower 70s by the time we get to Friday.
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