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Kansas City will look to start Runelvys Hernandez (3-4) today. Hernandez has started nine games for the Royals this year, most recently in a 12-4 loss to the Chicago White Sox in which he pitched 6 2/3 innings, giving up eight hits and five runs while walking two and striking out six.
Hernandez has received pretty solid run support from his offense, getting 6.6 runs-per-game in his favor. The Royals, however, have managed to win only four of those nine games.
The Tigers will pin their hopes on rookie Jason Beverlin (0-0). Beverlin, a 6-foot-5 220 pound right hander, has appeared in four games this season for Detroit, pitching a total of 7 1/3 innings, giving up nine hits and seven runs while walking four and striking out nine.
Beverlin's last appearance was on August 11 in a game against the Texas Rangers. He pitched two innings in a Detroit loss, giving up two runs on four hits in two innings while walking none and striking out one. His ERA stands at 7.36.
Kansas City is 2-10 this month and, with the win Saturday, erased a four-game road losing streak.
Detroit is 12-5 at home against Kansas City since the beginning of last season.
from Detroit paper:
Royal Oak's Beverlin is finally at home in majors
By Tom Gage / The Detroit News
NEW YORK -- His fifth team brought him home.
Jason Beverlin, whom the Tigers claimed on waivers from Cleveland last month and called up from Toledo after he went 3-0 with a 1.93 earned-run average for the Mud Hens in their drive for an International League division title, will soon start for the team he grew up watching.
A right-hander who went to Royal Oak Dondero High, Beverlin will start for the Tigers next Sunday at Comerica Park against Kansas City. It has been a long road for him to get to the Tigers, but he finally made it.
"I was really excited when the Tigers claimed me," he said. "As a kid, I watched them a lot on television. I remember the 1984 team. Those were exciting times."
Beverlin, 28, attended Western Carolina University and was drafted by Oakland after his junior year in 1994. He pitched two years for Class A West Michigan before it was a Tigers affiliate.
Beverlin was traded to the Yankees with Danny Tartabull in 1995 in a deal for Ruben Sierra, but he spent most of his five years with the Yankees at Double A. The Angels signed him as a minor-league free agent before the 2001 season. He spent one year in their organization, then he signed as a free agent with Cleveland last winter.
"I live in North Carolina now with my wife, but my parents still live in Royal Oak and I have other family members in St. Clair Shores. I've only seen Comerica Park from the outside, though."
Now he'll see it from the inside.
Kansas City will look to start Runelvys Hernandez (3-4) today. Hernandez has started nine games for the Royals this year, most recently in a 12-4 loss to the Chicago White Sox in which he pitched 6 2/3 innings, giving up eight hits and five runs while walking two and striking out six.
Hernandez has received pretty solid run support from his offense, getting 6.6 runs-per-game in his favor. The Royals, however, have managed to win only four of those nine games.
The Tigers will pin their hopes on rookie Jason Beverlin (0-0). Beverlin, a 6-foot-5 220 pound right hander, has appeared in four games this season for Detroit, pitching a total of 7 1/3 innings, giving up nine hits and seven runs while walking four and striking out nine.
Beverlin's last appearance was on August 11 in a game against the Texas Rangers. He pitched two innings in a Detroit loss, giving up two runs on four hits in two innings while walking none and striking out one. His ERA stands at 7.36.
Kansas City is 2-10 this month and, with the win Saturday, erased a four-game road losing streak.
Detroit is 12-5 at home against Kansas City since the beginning of last season.
from Detroit paper:
Royal Oak's Beverlin is finally at home in majors
By Tom Gage / The Detroit News
NEW YORK -- His fifth team brought him home.
Jason Beverlin, whom the Tigers claimed on waivers from Cleveland last month and called up from Toledo after he went 3-0 with a 1.93 earned-run average for the Mud Hens in their drive for an International League division title, will soon start for the team he grew up watching.
A right-hander who went to Royal Oak Dondero High, Beverlin will start for the Tigers next Sunday at Comerica Park against Kansas City. It has been a long road for him to get to the Tigers, but he finally made it.
"I was really excited when the Tigers claimed me," he said. "As a kid, I watched them a lot on television. I remember the 1984 team. Those were exciting times."
Beverlin, 28, attended Western Carolina University and was drafted by Oakland after his junior year in 1994. He pitched two years for Class A West Michigan before it was a Tigers affiliate.
Beverlin was traded to the Yankees with Danny Tartabull in 1995 in a deal for Ruben Sierra, but he spent most of his five years with the Yankees at Double A. The Angels signed him as a minor-league free agent before the 2001 season. He spent one year in their organization, then he signed as a free agent with Cleveland last winter.
"I live in North Carolina now with my wife, but my parents still live in Royal Oak and I have other family members in St. Clair Shores. I've only seen Comerica Park from the outside, though."
Now he'll see it from the inside.
