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- Updated: May 18, 2016
DETROIT — Nick Castellanos has 21 hits in two-strike counts this season, 10 after falling into an 0-2 hole. Nearly all of them were hit harder than the blooper he delivered off Twins reliever Michael Tonkin in the seventh inning on Tuesday night.
Few, however, were bigger in terms of momentum than that loft he put into short right field. It was the softest-hit ball of the seven-run, eight-hit rally that lifted the Tigers to a 7-2 win at Comerica Park, but it was the hit that continued what they started against Phil Hughes that inning with Miguel Cabrera’s triple and Victor Martinez’s sacrifice fly.
“I was just pumped to get on base and keep the line moving,” Castellanos said.
Considering what had happened for six innings, the Tigers also had to feel like they were due.
Victor Martinez lined out hard to right field in the first inning, denied a two-out double with J.D. Martinez on first, before his sac fly finally opened Detroit’s scoring in the seventh. By the time he lined out hard to third to end the seventh as the 11th batter of the inning, Detroit had its second big inning in as many …
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