{"id":427486,"date":"2026-08-08T17:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427486\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:40:40","slug":"detroit-tigers-head-to-san-francisco-to-face-giants-starting-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427486\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers head to San Francisco to face Giants starting on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Detroit Tigers managed to take two of three from the Seattle Mariners with an 11-0 shellacking of the home team at T-Mobile Park on Thursday evening, making it seven of the last eight that they have scored eight runs or more. Framber Valdez gave his team seven shutout innings while Dillon Dingler and Kevin McGonigle both homered to help power the offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Motor City Kitties now move on to San Francisco, where they play the final leg of their West Coast road swing against the Giants. Right-hander Keider Montero gets the start in the opener on Friday night looking to claw his team closer to the .500 mark as the season hits the home stretch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 26-year-old\u2019s last start against the Athletics in Sacramento was a strong one, tossing six frames of scoreless ball on two hits and two walks while striking out two and hitting a batter. Montero\u2019s efforts earned him his eighth win of the 2026 campaign in another 11-0 final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants\u2019 starter for Friday\u2019s game has yet to be announced as of the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UPDATE: Right-hander JT Brubaker will serve as the opener tonight for San Francisco, making his first start of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit Tigers (56-59) vs. San Francisco Giants (48-67)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Time (ET): 10:15 p.m.<br \/>Place: Oracle Park, San Francisco, California<br \/>SB Nation Site: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccoveychronicles.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McCovey Chronicles<\/a><br \/>Media: Detroit SportsNet, MLB.TV, Tigers Radio Network<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Game 116: RHP Keider Montero (8-6, 3.17 ERA) vs. RHP JT Brubaker (0-0, 3.17 ERA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers managed to take two of three from the Seattle Mariners with an 11-0 shellacking of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[108282,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-427486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-detroit-tigers-game-information","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}