Tigers Minor League Baseball Blog

The Flying Tigers got it done and they did it behind the arm of Charles Furbush.  The lefthander, who missed all of last year, gave up just three hits and a walk with four strikeouts in five shutout innings.  Furbush has now pitched nine innings split between two starts and he has yet to give up a run.   He also has a 10-1 strikeout to walk ratio so it looks like the rust is gone already.  Scott Green pitched a shutout ninth to pick up save number one while Robbie Weinhardt struck out four in two shutout innings in an impressive outing out of the pen.

Michael Bertram was the hitting star in the 5-3 win.  He went two for four with a double and three RBIs.  Kody Kaiser didn’t get a hit, but he picked up three walks in four plate appearances and he scored a run.