Detroit, MI
Detroit Tigers waste Reese Olson’s run support in 6-5 loss to Angels in extra innings
Jake Rogers ducked out of the way.
A wild slider from Los Angeles Angels right-hander Griffin Canning nearly hit Rogers in the face, but the Detroit Tigers’ catcher — batting in the nine-hole — leaned back at the last second to avoid getting hit by the pitch. Rogers responded by crushing the next pitch for a two-run home run with two outs in the sixth inning.
It was a cool moment, but the Tigers lost to the Angels, 6-5, on Saturday in the third of four games at Angel Stadium, marking their fourth loss in a row and their 16th loss in 22 games. In the latest loss, Kevin Pillar hit a walk-off single off right-handed reliever Jason Foley in the bottom of the 10th inning.
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Rogers has a .444 batting average with three home runs in 10 plate appearances against Canning in his MLB career. In Saturday’s game, Rogers smoked Canning’s middle-middle fastball for a 443-foot home run to left-center field.
His homer extended the Tigers’ lead to 5-2 in the sixth.
But the Tigers (37-46) — falling nine games below .500 and 16 games behind first place in the American League Central — couldn’t stop a comeback from the Angels.
After Rogers’ home run, the Angels scored two runs in the seventh inning and one run in the eighth to tie the game at five runs apiece before Pillar’s walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth to end the game.
The Angels trimmed their deficit to 5-4 with a two-run double from Taylor Ward off right-handed reliever Beau Brieske’s first-pitch fastball with one out in the seventh inning. In the eighth, Logan O’Hoppe, who blasted a clutch home run in Friday’s game, smoked a first-pitch slider from right-handed reliever Will Vest for a solo home run to left-center field, making it 5-5.
The game went into extra innings, but the Tigers — despite the free runner on second base — failed to score in the top of the 10th against flame-throwing right-handed reliever Ben Joyce, whose fastball averaged 100.4 mph.
The Angels, of course, scored in the bottom of the 10th.
Facing Foley, Luis Guillorme dropped down a sacrifice bunt to advance the free runner to third base. After that, the Tigers called Matt Vierling from center field to create a five-man infield in search of a ground out to keep the runner at third base, but Pillar smacked Foley’s first-pitch sinker into left field for a line-drive single to end the game.
The Tigers have a 1-5 record in extra innings since winning three times in extra innings during their first five games of the season.
Reese’s piece
Right-hander Reese Olson, who flashed the best version of his slider, allowed two runs on five hits and three walks with nine strikeouts across six innings, throwing 98 pitches.
The Angels, though, had at least one runner on base in five of their six innings against Olson.
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The leadoff hitter reached safely in all five of those innings: Nolan Schanuel’s single in the first, Willie Calhoun’s double in the second, Schanuel’s walk in the third, Schanuel’s double in the fifth and Calhoun’s walk in the sixth.
The Angels scored both runs in the third for a 2-1 lead. The first run scored on a wild pitch with the bases loaded, and the second run scored on a groundout with two runners in scoring position.
Otherwise, Olson worked his way out of trouble.
Olson struck out three batters in a row — Zach Neto (swinging strike, slider), Mickey Moniak (swinging strike, slider), Jo Adell (called strike, fastball) — to strand runners on the corners in the second. After Calhoun’s walk, O’Hoppe struck out swinging, Neto flew out and Moniak struck out swinging to end the sixth.
That’s how Olson ended his 16th start.
He owns a 3.32 ERA in 89⅓ innings.
The early runs
The Tigers scored one run in the first inning and two runs in the fourth inning.
The first run scored as a result of singles from Wenceel Pérez and Vierling, along with Riley Greene reaching safely on a fielding error. With one out, Colt Keith grounded into a force out with the bases loaded for a 1-0 lead.
In the fourth inning, Colt Keith and Gio Urshela collected back-to-back singles. Thanks to those hits, the Tigers ended up taking a 3-2 lead when the runs scored on Zach McKinstry’s groundout and Rogers’ sacrifice fly.
Canning allowed five runs (four earned runs) on six hits and two walks with four strikeouts in six innings, throwing 102 pitches. He has a 4.71 ERA in 17 starts.
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Boston — Not a bad place for big-league debut.
The Tigers on Friday placed Zach McKinstry on the 10-day injured list and called up infield prospect Hao-Yu Lee from Triple-A Toledo. He was in the lineup against the Red Sox, batting eighth at Fenway Park.
“We’re excited for Lee to get his feet wet in the big leagues,” manager AJ Hinch said. “He’s a good player. We’ve had him in big league camp the last two years. He hits the ball hard and can play good defense. Now he’s getting his first look at one of the cathedrals in our sport for his debut.”
Part of the decision to call up Lee, and not Jace Jung or Trei Cruz, Hinch said, was where the Tigers are in the schedule. Including Friday against Ranger Suarez, the Tigers will be facing six lefties in the next 12 games.
The right-handed hitting Lee slugged .558 with a .969 OPS against lefties last season.
Coming off an oblique injury this spring, which kept him from playing for Chinese Taipei in the WBC, he’s off to a slow start at Toledo (4 for 26).
“He’s been swinging it better than his numbers indicate,” Hinch said. “Results are so finicky this time of year. He’s coming off a good day (Wednesday). He hit a home run. So it’s good timing for that. He’s been hitting it hard and making good decisions on what to swing at.
“And that is key in transitioning from Triple-A to the big leagues.”
McKinstry exited Wednesday night’s game against the Royals ahead of the eighth inning of the Tigers’ 2-1 victory. He fell hard on the hip twice. Once on a head-first slide at the plate and the other after he was tripped up by Royals’ Jac Caglianone.
“He’s pretty beat up,” Hinch said. “We didn’t want to play short-handed but we’re also hoping to get him back quickly.”
McKinstry stayed back in Detroit and is expected to undergo further evaluations.
“He was doing better today than he was yesterday,” Hinch said. “But he clearly needed a break to heal up.”
Lee, 23, was not made available to the media until after the game. He is No. 6 among the Tigers’ top 30 prospects, according to MLB Pipeline, and was acquired by the Tigers in an August 2023 trade that sent starting pitcher Michael Lorenzen to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Around the horn
Justin Verlander (hip inflammation) did not make the trip to Boston. “We have to respect the soreness and inflammation that he’s dealing with,” Hinch said. “He’s working out and he’s doing everything. It’s just going a little bit slower. We’re going to respect it and give him the time he needs.”
… Lefty reliever Bailey Horn (elbow), who has had his throwing program paused, received a cortisone shot Thursday.
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The Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the discussions,” says the Trump Pentagon has urged leaders in the U.S. automotive industry to do more for the war effort. America’s national weapons cache has, it seems, begun to look a bit depleted from all the arms we’ve shipped abroad, and rounds we’ve squeezed off lately—particularly in Ukraine and Iran.
CEOs including Mary Barra of General Motors and Jim Farley of Ford have been among the executives who have sat for talks with high-ranking defense officials about upping the production of arms in what are currently car factories, with labor from people currently employed as automotive workers.
GM, it should be noted, already makes a military vehicle called the Infantry Squad Vehicle or ISV.
In a speech in November of last year, Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth described the industrial effort he’d like to see, but sounded a bit more like ChatGPT than he probably intends:
“We’re not just buying something. We are solving life and death problems for our war fighters. We’re not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing.”
The Pentagon’s statement to the Journal said the Department of Defense/War is “committed to rapidly expanding the defense industrial base by leveraging all available commercial solutions and technologies to ensure our warfighters maintain a decisive advantage.”
Earlier this month, President Trump requested a $1.5 trillion military budget, with an explicit push for an expanded industrial base.
For no particular reason, here’s a flashback to high school history class: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1940 “Arsenal of Democracy” speech, one of the all-time masterpieces of U.S. war propaganda.
In it, FDR makes the case that the Nazis are a threat to the American way of life, and that our allies need our help fighting them off. We’re not being asked to lay down our lives, he explains, just to come together as government, industry, and workers.
“We must have more ships, more guns, more planes—more of everything. And this can only be accomplished if we discard the notion of ‘business as usual.’ This job cannot be done merely by superimposing on the existing productive facilities the added requirements of the nation for defense.”
It’s utterly convincing, and listening to it today will stir up feelings of determination and patriotism you might have forgotten you could feel. If you feel inclined to listen to it in the current context, and play a little game of compare and contrast, that’s your business.
This Saturday is Record Store Day, an industry holiday created in 2008 to support independent record stores when the record industry was in shambles. Every year, music fans and collectors flock to their local shop to see what’s going on, enjoy live music and DJ’s, discounts, and exclusive new releases.
After more than 15 years, we wanted to know how Record Store Day has changed since its inception, and the state of record-collecting today.
To find out The Metro’s David Leins caught up with Dave Lawson, prolific record-collector and host of The Shake Out on WDET, Tuesday nights from 8 to 9 p.m.
He says there is something to enjoy at most every independent record store in Southeast Michigan. In addition to your local shop, these stores are independently owned and have something special on offer.
Detroit
- Third Man Records in Cass Corridor Detroit – WDET Broadcasting Live 11am-6pm (Ann Delisi, Rob Reinhart, Jon Moshier). Exclusive WDET/TMR Collaboration RSD Release
- People’s Records in Eastern Market, Detroit – Live DJs All Day (DJ Dez, DJ Riff, DJ Head, plus staff and friends)
- Ginkgo Records in Corktown (within 27th Letter Books) – 30% off used records, $1 records are 3/$1, Live DJs 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Haven’t You Heard, Whodat and more)
- Circle Game Records in Brightmoor, Detroit – Large collection of rare jazz LPs hitting the shelves
Downriver / West Side
- Hello Records in Lincoln Park – 50% off used stock, 20% new stock, Live DJs all day.
- Dearborn Music (two locations: Dearborn and Farmington)* – Always one of the largest carriers of RSD titles
Oakland County
- Street Corner Music in Oak Park* – Live DJs from Passenger Radio 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Adam Stanfel, Josh Lange, Pierce Reynolds, Ewolf, Stashu, Kevin Lang).
- Found Sound in Ferndale* – Concert Ticket Giveaways. Live music at 5pm from the Custodians and the Idiot Kids. Book signing with Lisa Peers “Motor City Love Song” 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Solo Records in Royal Oak – 15% off all store stock
- Flipside in Berkley – 20% off used vinyl, games, DVDs, and CDs. Raffle giveaways for concerts and a record player.
- UHF in Royal Oak* – Large collection of used stock hitting the shelves
East Side
- Ripe Records in Grosse Pointe Park* – 10% off all records (excludes RSD titles), Live bands 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Ricky Rat, Leonard King Orchestra, Sandbox, Surfing Hemi’s, Ethan Marc Band, The Science Fair, Custard Flux, Hush + Bobby J from Rockaway, Severn Road Stardust Collective, Gee Wally, Penarth, The Walktalkers)
- Blast from the Past in Roseville* – Open 8 a.m. 30% used vinyl celebrating 30th anniversary
- Melodies and Memories in Eastpointe* – Open 8 a.m.
- Village Vinyl in Sterling Heights* – Open 8 a.m. 20% off used, 10% off new (excludes RSD titles)
- Trax n Wax in St. Clair Shores* – Open 9 a.m. Live DJ Mayume, Coffee from Circa Coffee Co
Ann Arbor
- Wazoo Records in Ann Arbor* – Store-exclusive RSD releases, mixtapes, contests and snacks.
- Underground Sounds in Ann Arbor*
- Your Media Exchange in Ann Arbor*
- Encore Records in Ann Arbor*
- Ann Arbor District Library, Record Fair – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Multiple independent record dealers, Live DJs (Dave Lawson and Aaron Batz). Free admission.
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