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DETROIT -- Wilson Betemit was originally slated to make his return to the lineup on Saturday night, eight days after tweaking his knee on a slide at home plate. However, the Tigers wanted to see him run through pregame drills and see how his knee responded before putting him back in the field.Thus Betemit spent batting practice taking ground balls at third base and testing his lateral movement. A free football streaming ssuming that he doesn't have any more discomfort, he has a good chance to start Sunday's series finale.The sooner he returns, the sooner the Tigers can get their rotation at third base back into some normalcy. With Betemit out, Don Kelly has received the majority of the starts over Brandon Inge, including Saturday's game. For Perry, confidence will follow consistency DETROIT -- Manager Jim Ley free football streaming land talks about Ryan Perry with some of the same keywords he uses to describe Ryan Raburn. Consistency is one word. Confidence is another.Perry is starting to gain the consistency. Leyland is hoping the confidence follows."He's a lot like a position player who doesn't have the confidence in himself that he should have," Leyland said. "Ryan Perry should be a real good pitcher up here, and he needs free football streaming to get more confidence in himself, a little more swagger, because he's got the equipment to do it."If you look, the last two nights, he's been pretty good. Those should be confidence things for him."For Perry, confidence will come when the consistency is there. Consistency, he believes, will follow from his mechanics."I've never been able to hit my spots as well as I have now," Perry said on Satu free football streaming rday. "I have better control now than I really ever have. I just really, really pushed to learn my mechanics and learn my body."Perry has had a turbulent season, alternating dominant stretches in which he didn't look hittable with plodding stretches of control woes. His last couple of outings have fallen into the first category.He nearly had an 11th-inning meltdown on his hands on Friday, having a free football streaming llowed a leadoff double on an 0-2 pitch to Nick Markakis and a four-pitch walk to Vladimir Guerrero. After a visit from pitching coach Jeff Jones, he fell behind on a 2-0 count. Two pitches later he was out of the inning.The first pitch, he said, was a straight fastball that Matt Wieters grounded to first hard enough to start a double play. The next was a sinker that Adam Jones grounded to short.J free football streaming ust like that, Perry had gone from what looked like a loss in the works to scoreless inning. Once the Tigers rallied in the bottom of the frame, Perry had his first Major League win since last September."I really feel like I've been throwing well over the last few weeks," Perry said. "The outing in Oakland [last Saturday], I really got more frustrated handling the situation. Instead of bearing dow free football streaming n, I just got mad and tried to throw harder. It's something I've been able to prevent over the last few weeks since I was recalled. That was the one time."But I'm really feeling good. I feel like I'm repeating my mechanics, my delivery, on a much more consistent basis than I ever have. So I'm really happy with where I'm at right now." Timetable for Guillen's return unclear DETROIT -- The diagn free football streaming osis on Carlos Guillen from team doctors -- a mild strain on his right calf -- didn't catch the Tigers by surprise. But the timetable for his return is unclear.Guillen felt better walking around than he has the last few days, but he still was limited to rehab and therapy on Saturday. A week from Saturday would be Game 2 of the American League Division Series. The Tigers aren't ruling out him makin free football streaming g the playoff roster, but his return is looking more likely for sometime during the playoffs than before."I don't know. We'll see how next week goes," Guillen said. "But I feel better today."One factor in Guillen's favor would be that his role would likely be as a bat off the bench. That would put less of an emphasis on running and more on just being able to swing. At this point, however, he can't free football streaming swing the bat. free football streaming
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