Has anyone else struggled to keep up with the spring training Yankees during the World Baseball Classic, or is it just me? There\u2019s been some thrilling action across all four pools through Wednesday night, culminating in Italy, Canada, and the Dominican Republic\u2019s pool-clinching victories yesterday, and allowing Mark DeRosa\u2019s blunder to be forgiven as the U.S. also moved on with Mexico\u2019s loss. With no WBC on today, of course, the Yankees aren\u2019t televised. Boo.<\/p>\n
Will Warren gets the start in Lakeland, his fourth of the spring. The 26-year-old has only allowed one earned run in 10.1 innings while reigning in his command and limiting damage. A new release point has pitching models loving his stuff, but he\u2019s still struggling against lefties in a small sample. Detroit offers some good left-handed hitters, so it\u2019ll be a good test for him as he looks to build up past 50 pitches.<\/p>\n
An old foe is on the mound for Detroit today, as 43-year-old Justin Verlander has returned home to the Motor City to likely finish out a first-ballot Hall of Fame career. He rebounded in 2024 with San Francisco after a rough final year in Houston, making 29 starts with a 3.85 ERA (103 ERA+) and 3.85 FIP despite a continually declining strikeout rate. As much as he tortured the Yankees, especially in an Astros uniform, when he pitches against the Yankees this year, we\u2019ll have to appreciate the final games of his storied career.<\/p>\n
Ben Rice will lead off and play first base, followed by Jasson Dom\u00ednguez, J.C. Escarra, and Paul DeJong. Spencer Jones is back in the lineup, batting fifth and playing center field, while George Lombard Jr. bats eighth at shortstop. Max Schuemann, Seth Brown, and Yanquiel Fern\u00e1ndez round out the starting nin.<\/p>\n
Kerry Carpenter leads off a Detroit lineup with a good amount of regulars that includes Matt Vierling, Colt Keith, Spencer Torkelson, Dillon Dingler, Zach McKinstry, and Javier B\u00e1ez. Trei Cruz and John Peck wind out the lineup.<\/p>\n
Location: Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium \u2014 Lakeland, FL<\/p>\n
Radio broadcast: WXYT 1270 (DET)<\/p>\n
Online stream: N\/A (Audio available via MLB.tv)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Has anyone else struggled to keep up with the spring training Yankees during the World Baseball Classic, or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,4,594,38538],"class_list":{"0":"post-621443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroittigers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-tigers","14":"tag-yankees-game-threads"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116220751935149086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}