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Game 2009.163: Tigers at Twins continued

10.06.2009 140 comments

Trying to speed up the page loading, let’s use this overflow thread for additional comments.

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Game 2009.163: Tigers at Twins

10.05.2009 264 comments

Of all the years for MLB to do away with their asinine coin-flipping scenario for deciding home field advantage for tiebreaker games. Of course if the Tigers could have managed 1 more win at some point they wouldn’t even be in this situation. But this situation isn’t so bad, the Tigers are still playing and they’ll be the only game around tomorrow afternoon.

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Game 2009.162: White Sox at Tigers

10.04.2009 178 comments

Justin Verlander came up big. He was unusually efficient. Whether that was Verlander or a White Sox lineup that saw Scott Podsednik DH’ing remains to be seen. Regardless, and despite the fact that Jim Leyland left him in a couple batters too long, Verlander only enhanced his status as a staff ace and an elite arm in the American League.

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Game 2009.160: White Sox at Tigers

10.02.2009 185 comments

The buffet featured prime rib which delicious and marbled beautifully. Next to the prime rib was a personal favorite of mine, chicken oscar. You put asparagus and crab with anything and I’ll try it. Unfortunately the first batch was a little dry, I think it had been sitting under the lamp too long and the crab dried out. Fortunately they put out more that was delicious.

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Game 2009.159: Twins at Tigers

10.01.2009 238 comments

Those gritty Twins who play the game the right way made 4 errors, walked 6, and hit a guy…and still won easily. That’s in large part due to the fact that the Tigers were once again left longing for that big hit.

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Game 2009.158: Twins at Tigers

09.30.2009 199 comments

PREGAME: Let’s do this again. After a very long day of baseball, it’s just a regular night at the ballpark. Except that it is the immovable force named Carl Pavano that the Tigers will be going up against.
Pavano’s mastery of all things Tigers and few things not-Tigers is one of those epic mysteries. It’s the [...]

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Game 2009.157: Twins at Tigers

09.29.2009 182 comments

So….are you freaking out a little? Do you have chills? Are you sweating? Me, not yet. I’m a little grumpy but panic won’t set in until the Tigers are looking up at the Twins. Then I’ll be shriveling lump of despair. Until then, let us cast our gaze upon one Justin Verlander.

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Game 2009.156: Twins at Tigers

09.28.2009 276 comments

PREGAME: The Twins and Tigers lock up in what has been dubbed the Tigers biggest series since 1987. That dubber is Lee Panas, man of metrics and not a purveyor of hyperbole so I tend to agree with him.
By now you know the drill. If the Tigers take 3 (or better) the division is theirs. [...]

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Game 2009.155: Tigers at White Sox

09.27.2009 61 comments

PREGAME: It’s Daniel Hudson and Edwin Jackson doing battle in the rubber game of the series.
Hudson has 4 appearances this season, but he made his first start on Monday against the Twins. He went 5 innings and held the Twins to 3 runs (1 earned) on 4 hits with 4 K’s. He also walked 4. [...]

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Game 2009.154: Tigers at White Sox

09.26.2009 156 comments

The offense will get a lot of attention (and rightfully so) for awaking from a 13 inning scoreless slumber. It turned into a blow out thanks to some hard hit balls, and some weakly hit balls hit to the right spot, and some routinely hit balls that went between infielders.

But could it be that on this night the star is a mop-up man who threw 2.2 innings of scoreless ball to keep the game from getting out of hand and allowing the offense the opportunity to get back into it? Alfredo Figaro’s 1 hit performance tonight was huge, huge I say.

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Game 2009.153: Tigers at White Sox

09.25.2009 103 comments

I can’t really add much that won’t show up in a regular game story. Eddie Bonine allows 2 hits and takes a loss because the offense can’t get anything done. Heck the offense could barely put balls in play with 12 K’s. And Inge made an error. And Adam Everett was used as a pinch hitter for the designated hitter.

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Game 2009.152: Tigers at Indians

09.24.2009 57 comments

It wasn’t the slam dunk that I thought this game would be, but it is still a W, still a sweep, and still a 4 game winning streak.

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