DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers played their first game under the lights at Comerica Park on Wednesday. Of course, it’s summer in Michigan, so it didn’t really get dark until the eighth inning or so.
Even so, it was a good simulation of a real game; most of them will be played at night this year.
There was even fake crowd noise pumped in, although it was far more subtle and less obnoxious than feared. More of a background hum.
Check out the box score at the bottom of the page and read on for seven takeaways from Wednesday night’s intrasquad, the seventh of the summer.
1. Yeah, Boyd.
Tigers ace Matthew Boyd, pitching one day later than planned because of COVID scare, looked sharp. He struck out four and didn’t walk a batter in four innings of work. The only run came on a Grayson Greiner homer that dinged the foul pole in right field, perhaps traveling 335 feet.
But Boyd only threw 60 pitches. As this was his second-to-last start of “spring training 2.0,” it seems unlikely he’ll be able to go more than 75 pitches or five innings on Opening Day in eight days.
Of course, he’ll have plenty of company around the league, as pitchers have been forced to get ready for the season on an accelerated schedule.
2. Derek Hill continues to impress.
If only he could hit.
Ron Gardenhire hasn’t said that, but he must be thinking it every time he sees Hill make a great play in center field.
Hill does everything Gardenhire loves: He makes the big plays and the routine ones defensively, showing solid fundamentals and good game awareness. He takes extra bases, turning singles in doubles. He’s a real threat on the base paths and he loves to steal.
And, frankly, it’s obvious he came to summer camp to play. He’s treating these intrasquads like real games. He came here to make a statement and it’s worked.
A one-time prospect who is now 24 years old, Hill has never played above Double-A and he’s never hit really hit all that much at any level.
But Gardenhire made it sound like Hill had a chance to be back in Detroit at some point in 2020.
“The kid can really play some defense. This kid can really run it down. Now it’s about finding his swing and finding some way offensively to be more productive to go along with that defensive skill set he has,” Gardenhire said.
“He’s not overwhelmed by being in this camp, around these guys. He’s very confident in what he does. He’s not afraid to take a chance and dive for balls. Somewhere hopefully in these 60 games he’ll get an opportunity.”
3. Riley Greene taketh and giveth.
Two days after robbing a home run, Tigers rookie Riley Greene put one in the left-field bullpen, an opposite-field shot against fellow rookie Matt Manning.
Although Greene had played good defense this summer, he’s taken some time to get on track at the plate and has had some less-than-comfortable looking at-bats.
That’s to be expected. He’s only 19.
But he hit well against MLB or nearly-MLB competition in spring training, so it was only a matter of time before his bat heated up in Detroit.
4. Jeimer heating up
Jeimer Candelario has put some good wood on the ball over the last week but not always had the hits to show for it. He was the victim of Hill’s incredible play eight days ago and has other potential hits stolen from him over the course of the intrasquad season.
But he rapped two doubles on Wednesday, hustling into second base on one of them and pumping his fist in celebration, a rare show of emotion in a fake game.
Candelario has almost certainly made the team -- and won the starting third base job -- but he’s still playing like he’s in a fight, which probably pleases Gardenhire.
5. Injury watch
Center fielder JaCoby Jones was scratched from the lineup with left oblique tightness. He’s day-to-day.
Outfielder Travis Demeritte was expected to return Wednesday after being held out with groin soreness, but he’s still fighting it.
“We’re backing him off,” Gardenhire said.
Demeritte, who was considered a strong candidate for a bench job, has missed five games in a row.
6. Umpires disappear.
Two Major League umpires working Wednesday’s game suddenly disappeared after the seventh inning.
Gardenhire said it was getting late and the two Michigan natives -- John Libka and Bill Welke -- simply had to go home.
“They worked seven innings and they had to go get some rest,” he said.
7. Funkytown.
Kyle Funkhouser has quietly been quite good in intrasquad games, pitching five scoreless innings while striking out seven in three relief appearances.
It’s not clear that he’s a serious candidate for an Opening Day bullpen job, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility, either. With a 30-man roster, the Tigers will have a huge bullpen and Funkhouser has the advantage of already being on the 40-man roster.
On the other hand, if the Tigers decide to keep a large number of non-roster invitees on the big-league club (pitchers like Shao-Ching Chiang, Hector Santiago, Dario Agrazal or Nolan Blackwood), they’ll need to make cuts from the 40-man roster, and Funkhouser could be vulnerable, despite his solid outings this summer.
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| HITTERS | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | HR | AVG |
| Niko Goodrum | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .200 |
| Jonathan Schoop | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .261 |
| Miguel Cabrera | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .211 |
| Dillon Dingler | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| C.J. Cron | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 |
| Frank Schwindel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 |
| Jeimer Candelario | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .267 |
| Spencer Torkelson | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 |
| Austin Romine | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .100 |
| Jake Rogers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .429 |
| Jorge Bonifacio | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 |
| Brandon Dixon | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .176 |
| Derek Hill | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .231 |
| BATTING: 2B: Candelario 2 (2), Dixon (2), Hill (3) HR: Schoop (2, 9th inning vs. Castro, one runner on). |
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| FIELDING: E: Boyd (throwing error, 1st inning) |
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| HITTERS | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | HR | AVG |
| Willi Castro | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .316 |
| Victor Reyes | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .214 |
| Cameron Maybin | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .353 |
| Brady Policelli | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| Christin Stewart | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .318 |
| Harold Castro | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .350 |
| Jordy Mercer | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .286 |
| Grayson Greiner | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .250 |
| Eric Haase | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 |
| Dawel Lugo | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .105 |
| Riley Greene | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .167 |
| BATTING: 2B: Mercer 2 (3), Stewart (3). HR: Greiner (1, 2nd inning off Boyd, nobody on); Greene (1, 7th inning off Manning, nobody on). |
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| PITCHERS | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA |
| Matthew Boyd | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2.57 |
| Buck Farmer | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Matt Manning | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10.80 |
| Kyle Funkhouser | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 |
| PITCHING: Balk: Boyd (1). |
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| PITCHERS | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA |
| Ivan Nova | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.68 |
| Rony Garcia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.42 |
| David McKay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9.82 |
| Nolan Blackwood | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Anthony Castro | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6.00 |
| PITCHING: WP: Nova (1). HBP: Garcia (1), Castro (1). |
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