Tigers still seeking power from star trio, earn home-opening win over Cardinals
Catcher Dillon Dingler slammed both of Detroit's home runs this season.
Tigers still seeking power from star trio, earn home-opening win over Cardinals originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . With Colt Keith, the Detroit Tigers ’ hottest hitter, on the bench to start Friday’s home opener against the St.
Louis Cardinals , Kerry Carpenter connected on a Michael McGreevy cutter that caromed off the right-field wall, the line-drive trajectory simply too low. The Tigers entered Friday with the MLB’s fewest home runs: one by catcher Dillon Dingler on Opening Day. Dingler doubled that total Friday with a fourth-inning blast off McGreevy (0-1).
The two-run shot scored what proved to be the game-winning runs as the Tigers earned a 4-0 win at Comerica Park before a sold-out crowd of 45,008. It proved to be the Tigers’ first homer in eight days. Like Carpenter, Keith, who entered Friday leading the tooth-less Tigers with a .
364 batting average, just missed a homer Wednesday when his drive hit the top of the wall at Chase Field. Dingler didn’t miss Friday, connecting on a 430-foot homer , the longest homer of his career. When will his teammates get in on the act?