Monday August 17 at Tiger Stadium Milt Wilcox was the only Tiger pitcher to win a game this season as the Tigers start 1--6. He would be facing Jerry Koosman who also won his only start of the season. Neither would figure in the outcome. The Tigers got things going in the bottom of the first when Lou Whitaker tripled and Alan Trammell dropped a perfect suicide squeeze for a 1-0 lead. That was all Wilcox had needed in his first appearance, but today he would need more. The Twins charged back in the top of the second. Pete MacKinon singled home two, John Castino doubled him home and Gary Ward stroked theTwins third double of the inning to plate Castino.. the Tigers got two back in the third on Trammell's two run homer (1). In the bottom of the 5th, Koosman lost all semblence of control. A single and four consecutive walks gave the Tigers the lead then Kirk Gibson drove in two on a shot to right which was misplayed by Ward. Manager Sik later commented. "We wouldn't be bad if it weren't for all the walks and errors." The Twins would come back though, putting up three in the 5th on a double by Ward and a Roy Smalley two run homer (2). The Twins tied it in the 8th on a single by Mackanin and we went into extra innings. In the bottom of the 11th, Tom Brookens tripled with one out and Ricky Peters singled through a drawn in infield to end the game. Dave Tobik got the win )1-1. 2.70). Don Cooper took the loss (0-1, 15.63) Tigers 9 Twins 8
Tuesday August 18 at Tiger Stadium. Dave Rozema pitched a great game not allowing a run until two out in the ninth when he surrendered a two tun homer to Hosken Powell )1_. Rosie was clearly out of gas at that point and Ken Saucier finished off the Twis. The walk bug a boo continued to haunt the Twins as Al Williams walked the first two Tigers he faced in the first and both came around to score. The Tigers scored three in the first and added solo runs in the 4th and 8th . Rosie gets the win (1-1, 2.16_ and Williams took the loss (1-1, 3.46) Tigers 5 Twins 2
Wednesday August 19, at Tiger Stadium. Howard Bailey made his first appearance of the season and surprised the Tiger's manager by giving a very good performance. He have up only solo runs in the 5th and 7th, the latter coming on a Danny Goodwin home run (1), Aurelio Lopez finsihed out the game to earn his first save. The Tigers again scored three in the first, again keyed by two walks by Twin starter Roger Erickson. Alan Trammell squeezed home another run in the 2nd and the Tigers added an insurance run in the 6th. After the game, Tiger manager Tom Davis was asked about the two squeeze plays he called during the series. "These ain't your daddy's Tigers. We have more speed than power and we need to play a bit more small ball than Tiger fans are used to." Bailey was the winner (1-0, 2.70) Erickson took the loss (1-2, 1.35) Tigers 5 Twins 2 --submitted by Tom "Crash" Davis--
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