Peter Gammons

Wednesday night, Bonderman shut down the A’s with eight brilliant innings and this line: 8 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K. He threw in the 90’s with a dominating curveball and when Matt Anderson escaped the ninth, the Tigers had their second win of the season, 4-1. “It was a tremendous feeling,” Bonderman said. “It was especially meaningful because the first call I got in the clubhouse was from Billy Beane, who congratulated me and told me how proud he is to have had me in the organization.”