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- Updated: May 6, 2016
CLEVELAND — The batting average on balls in play is unsustainable. The strikeout-to-walk ratio seems untenable. And yet, Nick Castellanos continues to hit. And more than any of the bigger-name stars in Detroit’s lineup, he continues to hit the Indians.
Castellanos couldn’t slug the Tigers out of their hole at Progressive Field over the three-game series sweep. But he came closer than anyone else in a Detroit uniform.
The Tigers had five hits in each of the final two games of this series, including Thursday’s 9-4 loss. Castellanos had two hits in each game. He drove in four of the Tigers’ seven runs in this series, and he has scored twice and tallied six RBIs as part of Detroit’s 12 runs against Cleveland through six games this season.
As lopsided as this rivalry has been for the Tigers this season, it actually would’ve been worse without their third baseman. More important, as good as the Indians have pitched against a Tigers lineup that buried them for years, they’re still struggling with Castellanos.
“Castellanos is hitting everybody right now,” Indians manager Terry Francona said. “He’s driving the ball to right field. He’s hitting the ball out of the ballpark. He’s hitting line drives to left.”
He did all of that on Thursday. It took a highlight catch from Michael Brantley in the …
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