It can’t be worse than last night right? Jeremy Bonderman and R.A. Dickey will be hurling the leather for their respective teams.
It can’t be worse than last night right? Jeremy Bonderman and R.A. Dickey will be hurling the leather for their respective teams.
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26 responses to “Game 2010.070: Tigers at Mets”
I remember us erupting on Dickey in 2006. He may have given up 7 or 8 in an inning plus.
Unfortunately tonight they seem to have sent out Cy Dickey
Nice job by Bondo, it’s not often you give up a leadoff triple and don’t allow a run.
Dang, looked like it was going to be a good sacrifice by Bondo.
Great, now I get to listen to Jerry Seinfeld do play-by-play from the Mets broadcast. Time to find the radio…
Arrggh, the R3L2O fail
Over the last 4 weeks OBP:
Boesch .432
Avila .422
Inge .407
Frustrating night at the plate.
Did Zunaya get squeezed on that Dickey walk? Looked pretty bad on gamecast.
this is so frustrating to watch: Tigers gotta be the only team totally incapable of scoring anyone from 3rd base with less than 2 outs. Everybody we play gets ’em home….Tigers get someone to third and invariably he dies there. I’m quite sick of this…. 🙁
Remember Last year I wager we are better this year.
Check this out.
http://stickandballguy.com/blog/2009/08/27/your-team-is-not-bad-at-hitting-with-a-runner-on-third-base-and-less-than-two-outs/
Dickey hasn’t thrown a complete game in seven years!
Seriously, with a knuckleballer you have to wait him out–the whole point of a knuckler is that he usually has no idea where it is going. Dickey is a bit different because he throws it with a touch more velocity so he can “control” it a bit more. But c’mon, make him throw some pitches, get behind in the count, and make him throw a juicy 85 mph fastball. Our boys? Swing at the first pitch. Nice one. He has thrown less than 100 pitches thru 8 innings. Great strategy.
Statistically we could still win, but my heart ain’t feelin it.
Did you hear the visit with DD in the booth? If I’m not reading too much into it, he seemed a bit perplexed also–he said something like “I guess our plan was to attack early, but…”
it’s starting to look like 3rd place.
I mean, some of his “fastballs”, or rather, straight, letter high just waiting to get clobbered “straight-balls” were just waiting to get crushed, but our boys could not look for them in a hitter’s count because they were swinging at the first pitch and were down in the count, or getting on their front foot, rolling over the top of them and grounding out. Make a knuckler throw you a strike with his knuckleball. If he gets the first two over for strikes, tip your cap, choke up on the lumber, and try and stay alive/ slap something in the hole. But if he gets behind, he is going to serve up some BP in order not to walk you. Feast away!!
It won’t hurt as much if the Brew Crew can hang on to win.
It does not look good. Check out our schedule from July 19th to the end of August. N.A.S.T.Y. And then we have two series with the Royals in September, which always means trouble. The Sox on the other hand have the Mariners/Orioles/As seemingly throughout, with a smattering of the top teams spread out nicely in their favor.
I hope this whole love fest with Miggy (he deserves it, but still) on ESPN does not jinx him. Back in 2007 when we were rolling, we had the game of the week and ESPN lauded us as the best team in baseball, and we all remember what happened from mid-season on. Man I hate jinxes.
Wow, this team is really bad on the road… The wins against the bottom feeders was just that, not some new trend apparently… At least it the Twins are currently losing…
Games such as the two played the past two evenings at Citi Field are exactly why its hard to see us staying inthe race for the division title. Contenders don’t get dominated two nights in a row like the Tigers have experienced in New York. Losing both games in a non-competitive fashion has once again made me realize that the last hoemstand (while nice) was fool’s gold.
There was a team that lost two straight games in a non competitive fashion last year too.
4-15 @ whitesox
5-10 @ whitesox
That Team the Yanks….Everyone has series/ days like this. Let’s not make a mountain of a mole hill here.
The White Sox just finished sweeping the Braves (who the Tigers play next) and the Twinkies just got swept by the Brewers… who saw that coming?
AL Central looks to be a 3-team race, with the White Sox having the best starting five among those teams.
NOTE: unless Detroit changes their performance against those two teams (twinkies and sox), they may end up the 3rd place finisher in that race… the twinkies and w-sox have had their way with the Tigers over the past few years.
Persistent rumors here about Twins going for Cliff Lee. Who might the Tigers add?
Twins? Sox? Would be nice, but I’ll settle for dominating the Royals someday…
Twins can have Cliff Lee if that makes some combination of Denard Span, Nick Punto, and Carl Pavano go away.