TV/radio: Thursday-Saturday — Bally Sports Detroit/97.1; Sunday — Roku/97.1. All four games will be broadcast in Spanish on the Audacy app.
Probables: Thursday — RHP Kevin Gausman (2-2, 4.89) vs. RHP Jack Flaherty (1-3, 3.79); Friday — RHP Alek Manoah (1-1, 3.00) vs. RHP Matt Manning (0-1, 4.88); Saturday — RHP Jose Berrios (5-3, 2.98) vs. TBA; Sunday — LHP Yusei Kikuchi (2-4, 2.64) vs. TBA.
Scouting report
Gausman, Blue Jays: It’s been a wobbly start to the season for the 33-year-old. Though he’s soldiered through all but two starts quite well, opponents are hitting .301 with a .821 OPS. Lefty-handed hitters especially have vexed him (.338 average, .533 slug, .918 OPS). The average velocity on his four-seamer is down nearly 2 mph, and it’s been getting hit (.376, 635 slug). The Statcast run value on it, plus-16 last year, is minus-7 so far this season.
Flaherty, Tigers: He’s on a run of four straight quality starts (2.49 ERA). He leads the American League with 72 strikeouts. His 33% strikeout rate ranks in the top 5 percentile and his 3.7% walk rate in the top 6 percentile in baseball. He has a 31% chase rate and 33% whiff rate overall — a 42% and 44.75 whiff rates with his slider and knuckle-curve, respectively.
MLB.tv is saying:
stay tuned event will begin shortly while below I can see that Gausman is pitching to Vierling with one out in the bottom of the first…
Not gonna lie, to this point I’m underwhelmed with Benetti, nice guy does a good job when the game is his focus. However, I think he goes off tangent too much, as Gibby says…there is a game going on…
Series: Four games at Comerica Park, Detroit