At the half way point of the season, the Tigers are on pace to go 40-122. What’s surprising is that the Tigers won their second game in a row against the Blue Jays. It’s only the 4th time this season they’ve had a mulitple game win streak, and it will be thier first series win at home this year.

Matt Roney gave up 1 hit in 7 innings of shut out ball. Actually, the hit he did allow went off the glove of Shane Halter and may have been an error. In the end it was probably better that it was ruled a hit so that Tram wouldn’t have had to pull Roney with a no-hitter on the line (he threw 96 pitches). It was a tremendous performance from Roney, who failed to go 4 innings in his first two starts. Granted, those starts were at Coors and Fenway, two places that aren’t the pitcher friendly park that Comerica is. However, Comerica’s spacious outfield wasn’t really a factor because 12 of Roney’s outs were ground balls (okay, so the long infield grass may have helped).

Offensively the Tigers deposited two home runs over the temporary fence in left. Those two homers came from Craig Monroe in the first, and shockingly Ramon Santiago. It was Santiago’s first home run since June 19th, 2002. Santiago has reached base safely in all 5 games since assuming the starting shortstop role from Omar Infante. Trammell rewarded him by moving him up to the number two spot tonight.

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