Go EJAX!
Go Greinkeeee!

Tonight is his first 0-5 of the year.

(Tonight was the 1st time the Tigers reached 20 hits this season).

If you mean over Inge’s career, OK, that’s not as easy. But not hard…they had 1 20 hit game last year (Inge 1-5)…in 2007 games with 22, 21, and 20 hits (1-3, 3-4, 3-4); in 2006 games with 23 and 21 (2-5, DNP); none in 2005; in 2004 a 27 hit game [!] (2-6) and none in 2001-2003.

So today was actually the 1st time in Inge’s career the team had 20 hits and he had none (except for the one game he didn’t play in obviously).

The surprising thing is that there have only been 8 games with 20 hits over the Inge Era…

To bat in every inning I think would require a minimum of 17 runs; I’d put my money on 162-0 with a guaranteed 17 runs in each game.

Although, there would presumably be a lot of Rodney non-save appearances, so I guess you would have to take that into consideration…

I’m much happier now that I gave up on that. You should too. Just won’t happen–the Tiger way of making pitchers work is to keep getting hits and have more ABs, not getting more pitches per AB, so focus on that.

9. Polanco
16. Cabrera
19. Ordonez
24. Huff

These are the AL rankings of some of the Tigers in Pitches Per Plate Appearance–as in #1 = lowest/worst. So there are 4 Tigers among the worst in the entire league.

And I would be remiss to not point out that #1 Very Worstest = AJ Pierzynski

Overall team numbers Tigers are easily worst in the AL of course, with a 3.76 team PPA (league avg is 3.84…NY is at 3.88, BOS is at 3.94).

The difference between 3.76 and 3.84, or 3.76 and 3.94 doesn’t seem like much. Try this instead: number of pitches seen 2009:
DET: 21,921
NYY: 23,863
BOS: 23,696

So the Yankees have seen about 2,000 pitches more than we have this season. That’s an entire season of Seay (773) and Lyon (1069) and then some worth of pitches…I mean think of that, the Yankees have gone through an entire season’s Seay and Lyon’s worth of pitcher more than we have…

I planned a day trip to Austin today to watch UT wax UTEP and was looking forward to the return trip home. If the game ended just in time, Dan and Jim could sing to me for 3 hours (just the time it takes to get from Austin to Dallas) via the miracle of the iPhone. It was gonna be perfect.

That plan was derailed just south of Georgetown (that’s not very far from Austin) when Quentin hit the three run jack, so I flipped over to the KC game (love me some Denny Matthews) and was pleased to see an early 2-0 KC lead. Before I hit the next Dairy Queen that had mutated to a 5-2 deficit. Frustrated, I decided to give both games a 45 min break and resume Albert Camus’ The Stranger (fantastic book if you can handle the existentialism; I’m guessing that stephen considers it light reading, and Coleman reads it, dissects it, and Freakonomicses [new verb] it in a way so that he can debunk any claim stephen makes about it).

Anyway, the 45 min mark hit while I was on a phone call, so I flipped on XM radio (another baseball miracle) to check the scores off of the display while I was still on the call. KC was down 7-2 (sigh) so I pushed down a few stations and saw that our little Tigers were up 7-5!!! I immediately ended the phone call (I mean, it was my wife, like I’m not gonna talk to her again soon anyway) and spent the next 90 minutes sharing imaginary high fives with Dan and Jim and then flipping over the the SuX broadcast to point and whistle (Fresh Prince reference…) at the bad guys. KC even tried to add to the party with a brief 2 run showcase, but we all know what happened there. Not to worry, it was a good party anyway. My favorite DJ ended it with arguably my favorite song of all time…”One more time” (legitimately).

See everyone manana.

Our talent is much superior. We are fantastic at home. They face Cy Young 2 more times in 8 games. It’s very hard to rationalize a Twins comeback if you THINK about it.

i’d say if any team looked like that lately in the AL it’d either be the Indians or Orioles or Chi Sox

But!

1) We’ve won 5 out of our last 6 games
2) are two games up
3) have a much better group of players
4)play the rest of our games after tomorrow at home
5) and they face zack attack 2x and us in copa

need i say more?

Man it’s satisfying to hear Dickerson yell “LINE DRIVE BASE HIT INTO CENTER FIELD!”