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Boyd struck out a career-high 13 hitters to push the Tigers back above .500."Tigers offense did just enough to eek out a 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Wednesday afternoon. The win gave Detroit a series win over the Yankees and moved them over .500 for the first time since Opening Day.After both teams threatened in the second Jon Niese Jersey , the Yankees struck first in the bottom of the third inning. DJ LeMahieu narrowly missed a home run, but settled for a double off the top of the left field wall. He scored just a few pitches later when Aaron Judge lined a single into right field. Boyd was fortunate to escape with just the one run allowed, though. He walked Gary Sanchez later in the inning, and gave up a sharp grounder to Gleyber Torres destined for center field. Fortunately for the Tigers, the ball deflected off of Judge, resulting in the third out of the inning.The Tigers tied the score in the next inning, but also could have had more. They loaded the bases with one out against Loaisiga, and tied the game on a Christin Stewart sacrifice fly — credit to Nicholas Castellanos for a great slide to avoid the tag on a close play. But John Hicks struck out with runners on second and third to end the threat.Other than that inning, it was all Boyd. He struck out 13 of the 27 batters he faced, a career high. He also set a career-best with 26 swinging strikes (the highest total by a Tigers pitcher in the Statcast era).The Yankees threatened a couple of times — they put runners in scoring position in the fifth and sixth — but Boyd shut the door to keep the game tied. He finished the day after 6 1鈦? innings with five hits and three walks allowed.The score remained tied until the eighth inning, when Gordon Beckham lined a 1-0 fastball from former Tigers prospect Chad Green into the short porch in right field. The solo home run was his first hit as a Tiger and just the team’s second homer of the season — yes, their first since Christin Stewart’s game-winner on Opening Day.From there, the Tigers bullpen did the rest. Buck Farmer recorded two outs in the seventh after Boyd departed, and Joe Jimenez and Shane Greene worked a pair of scoreless innings to close out the win.Matthew Boyd stat cityBoyd’s 13 strikeouts were a career-high Edinson Volquez Jersey , topping an 11-strikeout performance against the St. Louis Cardinals last September.This was Boyd’s second consecutive 10-strikeout game to open the season. He is the first Tigers pitcher to do this.Boyd now has 23 strikeouts on the season, which leads all MLB pitchers. Max Scherzer is second with 21 punch outs. Next best in the American League is Blake Snell, with 16 strikeouts.Boyd’s 13 strikeouts are the most by a Tigers pitcher since Scherzer struck out 14 Pirates hitters back in 2014. They are the most by a Tigers lefty since Mickey Lolich punched out 15 hitters in a start way back in 1972.Up nextAfter a seven-game road trip to open the season, the Tigers will head back to Detroit for their home opener against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday. Spencer Turnbull will start for the Tigers against Royals righthander Jake Junis. Whatcha readin’ this off-season?"Many people are making New Year’s resolutions this time of year, and if one of yours isn’t “read more books”, it should be! The off-season is the best time to catch up on reading, but what should you be putting in front of your eyeballs this winter? We asked a few Royals Review writers to recommend some of their favorite baseball-related books.Max Rieper - Ben Reiter’s AstroballIf there was a sequel to Moneyball, this would be it. Sports Illustrated writer Ben Reiter, who wrote the article for the famous 2014 cover piece predicting (correctly) that the Astros would be 2017 World Champions, reflected on how the Astros went from zeroes to heroes in his book Astroball. The book takes a great behind-the-scenes look at some of the cutting-edge philosophies that helped propel the Astros to the title, including in-depth profiles and interviews with key figures like General Manager Jeff Luhnow and Director of Decision Science Sig Mejdal. Like Moneyball, the book excuses away too quickly some of the mistakes made by the front office - letting J.D. Martinez go before he blossomed, offering to trade Dallas Keuchel to Miami for nothing, and blowing back-to-back first overall picks on Mark Appel and Brady Aiken. But if you’re a fan that wants to know how a successful Kendall Graveman Jersey , modern front office operates, this book is a must-read. Amazon.com: Astroball: The New Way to Win it AllSean Thornton - John Rosengren’s The Fight of their LivesThe book is about the infamous Juan Marichal/John Roseboro fight in 1965. Over the years neither player was able to leave the incident behind them, as whenever either player was brought up, so was the fight. Time painted Marichal as the bad guy and Roseboro as just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Over time Marichal would reach out to Roseboro, and the two men would even be able to bury the hatchet. For a number of years Marichal, despite having the numbers, wouldn’t be voted into the Hall of Fame, many citing the fight. This whole section of the book is a great view into the two former players relationship, as Roseboro feels the need to set the record straight and vouch for his friend, Marichal. Two men who at once were enemies on the field would grow a friendship that many former players never achieve, yet along two that were once at odds. Amazon.com: The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal And John Roseboro Turned Baseball’s Ugliest Brawl Into A Story Of Forgiveness And Redemptionsterlingice - Jim Bouton’s Ball FourThe book was written a little before my time so I can’t understand the cultural impact when it came out. However, its reputation is that of the first “behind the scenes” book into athlete life. It’s a daily diary of Jim Bouton’s 1969 season, sometimes interesting, sometimes boring Jose Canseco Jersey , much like I imagine the life of a ballplayer to be. While telling the events of each day, he weaves old stories into the narrative. It is often mundane or clich茅, however, I wonder how much was understood by the general public before this look behind the curtain. For instance, he talks a lot about the mystical Yankees and the tell-all about Mantle was quite scandalous. But I feel his portrayal was fairly even handed: sometimes painting him as a good guy and other times not. I think the scandal is that Mantle was supposed to be above reproach but Bouton pained him as a human. I don’t believe he was trying to be mean in the tell-all, just tell-all, from the uninteresting to the shocking. He shares personal politics, personal stories, and a pretty entertaining personal wit. In short, his season is ordinary by baseball standards but it’s a perfect primary source lens through which to view the life of a baseball player and that’s why it’s a historically significant (and entertaining) book.Amazon.com: Ball FourDo you have any baseball-related books (or even non-baseball-related books) you would recommend?