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2019 Detroit Tigers First Week Recap To begin the 2019 season, it seemed that the Detroit Tigers offense had forgot to head north with the team. Throughout the first seven games, the young lineup has yet to break out and has struggled with the big league pitching they have seen. Miraculously, the Tigers head back to Comerica with a 4-3 record and that has been large in part due to the stellar pitching the team has received from their starters along with some timely hitting from very unlikely contributors. The Tigers offense has scored only 12 runs in total so far, but many of these hits have been extremely impactful including Christin Stewart’s game winning two run home run on Opening Day, Nicholas Castellanos’ game winning RBI single against Toronto and maybe the two most surprising results of this young season, Dustin Peterson’s game winning RBI double off of fireballing left hander Aroldis Chapman and Gordon Beckham’s game winning homerun to propel the Tigers to a series win over the depleted New York Yankees. The story of this team so far has been undoubtably its tremendous starting pitching, highlighted by Jordan Zimmermann and Matthew Boyd. On Opening Day, Zimmermann pitched 6 ⅔ perfect innings before giving up a single to Blue Jays left fielder Teoscar Hernandez, and went on to pitch seven scoreless on a very economically 70 pitches. He followed that up with another fantastic outing as he held the New York Yankees to one run over 6 and ⅔ innnings while racking up six strikeouts in a very hitter friendly Yankee Stadium. Not to be overshadowed however, Matthew Boyd pitched one of his best games in a Tiger uniform, as he bounced back from his subpar start against the Blue Jays with an absolute masterpiece on Wednesday afternoon in The Bronx. Boyd pitched 6 and ⅓ innings of one run ball with a career high 13 strikeouts. He mixed pitches beautifully, as his fastball and slider helped change eye levels and has Yankee hitters off balance all afternoon. After his start, Boyd leads the MLB with 23 strikeouts and will certainly be a centerpiece of any Tigers success this summer. To compliment the starting pitching, the Tigers bullpen has also been outstanding, led by Shane Greene who has closed out all four Tiger victories so far. Relievers such as Daniel Stumpf, Reed Garrett and even Buck Farmer have all had nice starts to their 2019 campaign, and apart from giving up 3 runs against the Blue Jays on Sunday, Joe Jimenez looks like he is carrying the momentum he had in the first half of his 2018 all star campaign. Although expectations are low for this rebuliding Tigers squad, if they continue to get similar results in their starting staff, along with a revival of their offense, this team may surprise some people this summer. Im looking up game logs rn

First zimm, Talk about big bats if there were any

Commented [1]: past tense Commented [2]: why dont we brainstorm first and gather data to prove what we want to talk about Commented [3]: crack a joke about how usually good our bullpen was on this stretch. Commented [4]: unusually* Commented [5]: I will

Then boyd Then bullpen combined and maybe 1 name that stood out ****** im gunna summarize that for the actual twitter post Edit it onto a picture and throw it on Shit this is gonna be longer than i thought havent even done pitching yet ****** gunna try to build a website rn