October 16, 2012: Tigers 4 A's 1 (Tigers lead ALCS, 2-1)

Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder lead the charge as the Tigers take care of the A's in Oakland to take a 2-1 lead in the ALCS.

The A's got on the board first with the first 2 batters of the home half of the 1st when Coco Crisp singled and Stephen Drew doubled. The 1-0 lead held until the 5th, when the Tigers tied it at 1 with an Andy Dirks single and a Jhonny Peralta double. Then in the 6th, Cabrera and Fielder went back-to-back and gave the Tigers a lead that the A's could not overcome.

Verlander walked 6, but allowed just the one run in 7 1/3 for the win. Jose Valverde earned 5 outs for the save.

BOXSCORE: 2012 Detroit Tigers At 2012 Oakland Athletics            10/16/2012
 
  Tigers             AB  R  H RBI AVG     Athletics          AB  R  H RBI AVG
  A.Jackson CF        5  0  1  0 .343     C.Crisp CF          5  1  2  0 .323  
  Q.Berry LF          4  0  1  0 .313     S.Drew SS           4  0  1  1 .276  
  M.Cabrera 3B        4  1  2  1 .296     Y.Cespedes LF       5  0  1  0 .188  
  P.Fielder 1B        4  1  1  1 .226     B.Moss 1B           4  0  0  0 .200  
  D.Young DH          4  1  1  0 .167     J.Reddick RF        4  0  0  0 .226  
  A.Dirks RF          4  1  1  0 .379     J.Donaldson 3B      3  0  1  0 .172  
  J.Peralta SS        2  0  1  1 .259     S.Smith DH          1  0  1  0 .278  
  A.Avila C           4  0  1  1 .067     G.Kottaras C        3  0  0  0 .143  
  O.Infante 2B        4  0  0  0 .250     C.Pennington 2B     4  0  1  0 .227  
                     -- -- -- ---                            -- -- -- ---      
         Totals      35  4  9  4                 Totals      33  1  7  1
 
 
Tigers.......... 0 0 0  0 1 3  0 0 0  -  4  9  0
Athletics....... 1 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 0  -  1  7  0
 
Tigers (5-3)             IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
J.Verlander WIN(2-0)      7 1/3   7   1   1   6   6   0 141   2.01
J.Valverde SAVE(2nd)      1 2/3   0   0   0   0   3   0  19   4.50
Totals                    9       7   1   1   6   9   0
 
Athletics (5-3)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
A.Griffin LOSS(1-1)       5 1/3   7   4   4   1   5   2  95   3.97
S.Doolittle               1       2   0   0   1   0   0  30   0.00
P.Figueroa                2 2/3   0   0   0   0   2   0  25   0.00
Totals                    9       9   4   4   2   7   2
 
ATTENDANCE- 34,448 DATE- Tuesday, October 16th 2012 TIME- Night WEATHER- Bad
UMPIRES- Greg Gibson, Gerry Davis, Phil Cuzzi, Bruce Dreckman
T- 3:18
LEFT ON BASE- Tigers: 6  Athletics:11
DOUBLE PLAYS- Tigers: 0  Athletics: 0
DOUBLES- Q.Berry(1st), J.Peralta(1st), A.Avila(1st), C.Crisp(1st), S.Drew(3rd),
         J.Donaldson(3rd)
HOME RUNS- M.Cabrera(4th), P.Fielder(2nd)
RBIs- M.Cabrera(9th), P.Fielder(3rd), J.Peralta(3rd), A.Avila(1st), S.Drew(4th)
CAUGHT STEALING- Y.Cespedes
WALKS- J.Peralta-2, S.Drew, J.Donaldson, S.Smith-3, G.Kottaras
STRIKE OUTS- A.Jackson, Q.Berry, P.Fielder-2, D.Young, A.Dirks, A.Avila, S.Drew,
             Y.Cespedes-2, B.Moss-2, J.Reddick, G.Kottaras-2, C.Pennington
2-out RBI- A.Avila
RLISP 2-out- J.Reddick, C.Crisp, C.Pennington-2, A.Jackson, O.Infante-2,
             G.Kottaras, P.Fielder, B.Moss
 
Third baseman Miguel Cabrera homered as the Detroit Tigers topped the Oakland
Athletics by a score of 4 to 1 at O.co Coliseum.
 
Justin Verlander(2-0) earned his pay with a solid performance for Detroit.  He
went 7 and 1/3 innings and surrended up 7 hits and 6 walks dropping his ERA
from 2.40 to 2.01.  Oakland went down quietly in the bottom of the 9th.
 
Verlander got help from Jose Valverde who was credited with his 2nd save. A.J.
Griffin(1-1) was the losing pitcher.  He allowed 7 hits and 1 walk in 5 and
1/3 innings.