Tigers Blank Rockies 11-0 on Keider Montero’s 1st Shutout

Tigers Blank Rockies 11-0 on Keider Montero’s 1^st Shutout. The Tigers kept their playoff hopes alive on Tuesday night as they clobbered the Rockies 11-0 in the opener of their three-game set at Comerica Park. Not only did they have a breakout game offensively, they also got the finest start of right-hander Keider Montero’s young career.

Keider Montero Records First Shutout

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As much of a story as the Tigers’ bats were on Tuesday night, the headliner was Keider Montero. The 24-year-old hurler delivered the best start of his MLB career, hurling a complete game shutout with five strikeouts.

Montero scattered just three hits on the night – all of them singles – and didn’t walk a batter. Each time that the Rockies had someone reach base, he induced a double play to erase them. He faced a minimum of 27 batters in this magnificent outing.

Montero got 17 swings and misses on 96 pitches in the ballgame – six on his slider, five on his knuckle curve, five on his fastball, and one on his changeup – and registered a strong CSW of 31 percent. He now sits a 5-6 with a 4.88 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, and a 65/26 K/BB ratio over 83 innings in 15 appearances (14 starts) on the season.

Tigers Bats Explode

With Montero’s dominance, the Tigers didn’t need much from their offense on Tuesday night, but they got an explosion anyway. Parker Meadows started the game off with a bang, lining the second pitch that he saw from Bradley Blalock for a solo homer that gave the Tigers an early 1-0 edge they’d never relinquish.

They added on four more runs in the second inning – three of them on a bases-clearing triple off the bat of Riley Greene. Matt Vierling also added a run-scoring single in the frame.

The party wasn’t over though, as the Tigers added on six runs during an uprising in the sixth inning that featured a two-run single by Parker Meadows, an RBI knock by Matt Vierling, a sacrifice fly by Kerry Carpenter and a two-run single by Andy Ibanez to cap it off.

News and Notes

With the victory, the Tigers move to three games over the .500 mark at 74-71. Unfortunately, the Twins defeated the Angels on Tuesday so the Tigers remain three games back in the race for the final Wild Card spot in the American League.

Casey Mize will take the mound on Wednesday against Tanner Gordon as the Tigers look to extend their winning streak to four straight games.

Dillon Dingler and Spencer Torkelson were scratched from the team’s starting lineup on Tuesday night as both were battling an illness that has been traveling through the clubhouse. Torkelson is tentatively scheduled to return to action on Wednesday, though Jake Rogers is once again starting in place of Dingler. Wenceel Perez smacked a two-run homer in his latest minor league rehab game at Triple-A Toledo on Tuesday. He could be ready to rejoin the Tigers for their weekend series against the Orioles.

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Article originally written Dave Shovein