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- Updated: August 29, 2016
DETROIT — The view from the top of the Tigers’ batting order has been a scenic one this season for Ian Kinsler, who entered Monday ranked fifth in the American League in runs scored. The last few weeks, however, the numbers haven’t been all that pretty.
So on Monday, for the first time this season, manager Brad Ausmus decided to change the view. When Kinsler batted second behind Cameron Maybin vs. the White Sox, it marked the second baseman’s first start anywhere but leading off since the last game of the 2015 season, when he hit second behind Anthony Gose.
“Just change his luck, maybe,” manager Brad Ausmus said. “He’s been barreling the ball up, getting under it a little sometimes, sometimes hitting it right at people. So we’ll see if it helps. There’s no mathematical formula behind it.”
Nobody in baseball has more games (124) or at-bats (514) in the leadoff spot this season, and …
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