PREGAME: My buddy Russ said I shouldn’t write about the Tigers 5 game winning streak, so I won’t.
Tonight it will be a battle of southpaws with Mike Maroth taking on Odalis Perez.
Perez has been pretty consistently not-bad this year. He’s allowed either 3 or 4 runs in each start, and pitched 5 to 6 innings in every start but one.
Game Time 7:10pm
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Let’s do this.
In an hour.
“I have a bad feeling about this…”
OK, who jinxed this game with talk of a winning streak?!? 😉
Rod just said “Leyland doesn’t use a whole lot of lineups.” Didn’t he use 120+ last year?
Good start to the 5th inning with a double from Monroe. The Tigers have looked a little sluggish tonight but maybe they can get something goin in this inning. Maroth hasn’t been exactly stellar.
Yeah, Thames got greedy. He was the tying run with nobody out… no reason to risk going to third.
Whoa ho Magglio!!!!!!!!!!!1
Leyland’s used 16 lineups this year so far: http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/2007_lu.shtml
KC has used 26.. that’s quite a lot.
Grilli sux. Period.
I don’t know how much more proof we need, or how many more situations he blows to prove it.
I wouldn’t say he sucks but he is having some serious issues so far this year. The last few outings for him have been just plain embarrassing.
Glad how I come in right at the bases-loaded-two-outs-almost-walk situation. Not cool guys.
Change almost to…not almost.
And where is Sheffield? Sit him right during his hot streak? I don’t get it.
Sheffield is attending his grandfather’s funeral. Should be back tomorrow, I believe.
“Pitcher Change: Jose Mesa replaces Wilfredo Ledezma.”
I never want to read that again. Ever.
Ah, funeral. That explains it.
MAGGLIO!!!
C-MO!!!
Magglio…so hot right now
Baltimore dimantled Cleveland tonight, so even more reason to want a win here.
zumaya has hurt himself warming up.
Baltimore dismantled Cleveland tonight, so even more reason to want a win here.
Bobby with an H. I like this game.
Nice job by Seay.
Any word on Zumaya? The MLive forum is going crazy.
Don’t try to go home on Teahen…his arm…is so good…
And why, what’s wrong with Zumaya?!
I heard he hurt himself warming up in the bullpen. Trainers were looking at his hand or something.
From sluggish to slugfest!. Go Tigers!!
Been busy traveling so haven’t had a chance to post this season.
Just looking at the pitching stats and I was surprised to find that the bullpen is responsible for 8 of the 11 losses so far this year. Regardless of what you think of Maroth and Durbin, the starters collectively are only responsible for losing a little over 10% (3 out of 29) of their starts.
Cool to see bobby seay take care of his business, throwing strikes in meaningful PT. Memories of his duty in last years’ eight-runs-allowed eighth inning bloodbath vs. Toronto fade slowly…Walker-Rodney-Jones-Seay…*shudder*
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR200606090.shtml
In line for another sweep, and Jones gets his third save in three games!
As Baseball Tonight ended on ESPN just now, they said “Joel Zumaya injured in the bullpen, apparently seriously. We’ll have more on the next edition of Baseball Tonight.”
Hopefully they’re jumping to conclusions.
Joel hurt his hand while warming up in the bullpen for the 8th inning. The trainer ran over to him and the next thing we saw was Zoom walking back to the dugout holding his right hand up. Someone said he heard a “pop” in his middle finger. He looked like he was in dreadful pain. Doesn’t look good.
Great win tonight. Hitters didn’t panic early and took care of business late.
6-0 in Maroth’s starts now. My theory is that the baseball gods still owe him from the 20-loss season.
Good to get this one, as Greinke vs. Durbin is no sure thing tomorrow.
FSN’s postgame said Zumaya was taken to the hospital. We’ll probably be left with no good information until tomorrow.
Knobler says finger dislocation. That doesn’t sound like a big deal in the scheme of things, but I assume it’s a fairly big deal for a pitcher.
http://blog.mlive.com/tigersinsider/
Someone must owe Maroth something, Kyle, because this was not a very good outing for him. However, a win’s a win, I’m glad for this one. Another good example of Leyland’s mantra “nine full innings”.
And as far as Zumaya, I’m guessing a dislocated finger is serious, but less serious than say, a broken finger. Hopefully the recovery time will be shorter. Still, either one sounds painful to me.
The AP on Zumaya’s injury:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — While winning a wild ballgame, Detroit may have lost a valuable pitcher before he could even get onto the field.
Joel Zumaya, whose fastball can exceed 100 mph, was warming up in the bullpen during Saturday night’s 7-5 victory over Kansas City when he “felt something pop” in the middle knuckle of his pitching hand. He was hurried to the hospital.
“He threw a pitch in the bullpen, a fastball, and this joint, this [middle] knuckle, he felt something pop,” said manager Jim Leyland. “He’s being checked out at the hospital. That’s all the information I have for you at this time.”
A key member of the bullpen, Zumaya is 1-1 with a 3.63 ERA in 17 1/3 innings for the defending AL champions.
“I don’t want to make any comments yet because I don’t want to be premature,” Leyland said. “But I can tell you this, if it is a situation where we’ve lost Joel for a period of time, then that tests the character of your team and other guys have to step up. I’m assuming he’s going to be out for a while. I would guess. But I just don’t know.”