The St. Louis Cardinals have lost consecutive games to the rebuilding Detroit Tigers in walk-off fashion.The Cardinals
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salvage the series finale Sunday afternoon at Comerica Park. Right-hander John
Gant will start for them against Michael Fulmer.Gant has battled control
problems in recent starts. He has issued 13 walks in his last three outings,
including five in 4 1/3 innings at Washington on Tuesday. He gave up three runs
that night, though none were earned.Article continues below ...“Felt good with
the heater,” Gant told the St. Louis Post Dispatch. “My secondary stuff was
iffy.”Gant (6-5, 3.19 ERA) has allowed two or fewer earned runs in his last six
outings. He made one relief appearance against Detroit during his rookie season
with Atlanta in 2016 and tossed 1 1/3 scoreless innings.Fulmer will make his
fourth start since returning from an oblique strain. He gave up one hit, a
leadoff homer, in his last outing against the Chicago White Sox on Monday.
Fulmer threw 96 pitches in that 5 2/3-inning stint.“All the mechanical
adjustments we’ve made over the past couple of weeks, I didn’t trust them at
first, and I was still flying open (with his front shoulder in his
delivery)
Matt Garza Jersey ,” Fulmer told the Detroit News. “I came back inside and looked at the video and sure enough, I was flying open. So I closed it right off
and I started to get weak contact.”Fulmer wound up with a no-decision that
night. Detroit has lost 11 of his last 12 starts dating to late May. The lone
win was a 3-1 decision over Minnesota on June 14.Fulmer (3-10, 4.57 ERA) was
struck in the shin by a line drive at the end of his last start, but it turned
out to be just a bruise. He’s looking forward to his remaining starts.“I am very
excited where we’re going,” said Fulmer, who will face the Cardinals for the
first time. “I just have to stick to it and trust the process.”If the Cardinals
fail to make the postseason, they’ll look at this series as one of the big
reasons they came up short.On Saturday, Victor Reyes scored on a wild pitch in
the bottom of the ninth to give Detroit a 4-3 victory. Marcell Ozuna tied the
score with a two-run homer in the top of the inning, his third long ball in two
games.“They’re in a pennant race,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. “You can
tell how tense it is for them over there. We’re getting a piece of it from the
other side that we wouldn’t get if we weren’t playing teams that were in this
pennant race.“So our guys are pretty fired up in the dugout and they’re getting
after it pretty good. They’ve been doing it all summer long
http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-stephen-vogt-jersey , but there’s definitely a different emotion going on right now.”It has been a
rough weekend all around for the Cardinals. Infielder Jedd Gyorko was expected
to be activated off the disabled list Saturday but instead returned to St. Louis
for treatment on his left groin injury.Starting pitcher Michael Wacha was
scheduled to make a rehab start Friday night but had a setback with his left
oblique injury and it’s uncertain if he’ll return this season. TORONTO (AP) —
Rhys Hoskins and Carlos Santana hit back-to-back home runs, Maikel Franco and
Wilson Ramos each had two-run shots and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the
Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Sunday, avoiding a three-game sweep.Ramos had four
hits. He singled in the first, doubled home a run in the second, singled in the
sixth and homered off Tyler Clippard in the eighth, his 15th.Vince Velasquez
(9-9) allowed two runs and three hits in five innings for the victory as
Philadelphia won for the second time in eight games. The Phillies began the day
three games behind Atlanta in the NL East, and two games out in the wild card
race.Luis Garcia, Hector Neris, Tommy Hunter, and Seranthony Dominguez each
pitched one inning of relief.Kendrys Morales set a Blue Jays record by homering
for the seventh consecutive game
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