My sincerest thanks to billfer for entrusting me with the task of guarding the island.
Our Tigers take their 16-29 road record and one game win streak to the Trop. Scherzer has been brilliant in July thus far posting a 3-1 record with a 2.00 ERA and 25 Ks in 27 IP. Upon further inspection, did you know that Scherzer has 100 Ks in 105.2 IPs?
We all know that Valverde will be unavailable, so let’s get to Garza early and often. Tigers have had some success against Tampa as of late, going 8-3 since September of ’08, and are 10-4 overall versus the East this year.
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60 responses to “Game 2010.098: Tigers at Rays”
Let’s win one for the billfer.
looks like we failed.
Game Threads rule!
Here’s the Hengers lineup:
1. Austin Jackson, CF
2. Will Rhymes, 2B
3. Johnny Damon, DH
4. Miguel Cabrera, 1B
5. Brennan Boesch, RF
6. Ryan Raburn, LF
7. Don Kelly, 3B
8. Gerald Laird, C
9. Danny Worth, SS
I hope Scherzer brings his A+ game.
me too.
and A+ hitting.
So far so good for Scherzer!
Nice work Kevin; good to see the threads are back
I’m not home … Catching on the BB. Thanks for the thread. 0-0 so far
The Mendozas have spawned another bro, and all 5 of them are in the lineup tonight. Which brings to mind a quiz: which Tiger in tonight’s lineup is hitting .227 with runners on (any situation) and .203 with RISP?
Hint: it isn’t Cabrera, who is at .353 and .366 respectively 😉
Cool roll, Zobrist. Catch sure would have been lame without it…
Scherzer got squeezed on that full count pitch to Upton
And to make it worse they call Upton safe on that throw. What a joke.
WoW! Another Sucky Call!
Can’t help but think Leyland is telling the umps how sick to death he is of their crappy calls against the Tigers. I know I am.
We have to get 5 outs this inning.
boy, that was some pretty terrible umpiring.
That play there with Garza is what Porcello needs to work on.
Goodness gracious, we need some hits.
4 innings of baseball and no hits for either team
Does anyone know what the pitch count is for either pitcher?
After 5 innings, 68 pitches for Garza and 72 for Scherzer.
73-46 for Scherzer, 68-45 for Garza.
i cant believe they are cutting away from a double no-hitter for a steroid-laced milestone.
The Tigers’ broadcast isn’t doing that. Thank goodness.
Twins put up a 6-spot vs. Greinke in the first inning.
Click is not having a very good night behind the dish tonight.
Oh, man, Scherzer needs to only think about getting this guy out.
ugh. beaten by the former tiger
Don’t mean to be the black cloud around here, but…
ballgame.
OMG Matt Joyce!
And with one pitch, things turn change in a heartbeat. Very disappointing.
Matt Joyce, ex-Tiger, breaks up the no-hitter with a grand slam.
If only we hadn’t traded Joyce this wouldn’t have happened! The Max would’ve–oh wait, if we hadn’t traded Joyce we wouldn’t have Max…hmmm, this is getting too complicated.
Despite the Grand Slam.. I’ll still take Max over Matt..lol
I DON’T BELIEVE IN THE JINX!
JINX JINX JINX
By the way, the answer to my earlier quiz is ……… envelope please ……………Johnny Damon.
Although Mr. Mohawk is hitting .320 with the bases empty.
Re: Sixth inning
Ron Burgundy: Boy, that escalated quickly… I mean, that really got out of hand fast.
Champ Kind: It jumped up a notch.
Ron Burgundy: It did, didn’t it?
Brick Tamland: Yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart.
Ron Burgundy: I saw that. Brick killed a guy. Did you throw a trident?
Brick Tamland: Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident.
Ron Burgundy: Brick, I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you’re probably wanted for murder.
Raburn is hitting .224 with RISP, and about .208 overall. In other words, Raburn: clutch.
He’s just not comfortable in the 6-slot. Now that Damon is batting third, Leyland needs to move him back up to No. 2 where he belongs.
Congatulations, Billfer. That’s when it started. Billfer’s belief that losing Matt Joyce was a wrong decision. And now, here’s his justice. A Grand Slam. It just had to be Matt Joyce.
Truly, this is a memorable game. We are probably going to lose, but it has been a great game to watch.
Kelly/Laird/Worth = doomed to get no-hit. The guys on the bench don’t exactly improve our chances, either.
Check out our current OPS+ ratings. Right now the roster has 4 hitters above average (100). Of the other 9 players, only Santiago (!) approaches respectability at 84. The rest aren’t even close. We have a really bad bench. Unfortunately it is also really big. Too many gaping holes to fix IMO.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/2010.shtml
ugh. oh well, congrats to Garza. He pitched a great game.
doesn’t make me happy…but Congrats to Garza…Uggh!
Not sure how the Tigers are going to come back from this
Final nail in the 2010 season.
Right now, we all feel awful about the team. We may have to live with this until the ’11 season.
At this point I’m really looking forward to the 2011 season and the coming off-season moves. It’s obvious there are too many holes to fill and injuries to patch up this year and it’s time for D.D. to look towards next year and make adjustments for that seaon. (But you never know, maybe I’ll come eating crow come October 3rd)
I feel happy for them. They deserved the win, simple as that.
Might not be the last time this season we get no hit
Sometimes you just have to shake your head and smile. Sometimes you blame Kevin 🙂
Billfer posted, and he’s smiling! You can see it right there in his picture.
I think this is a sign from above. The baseball gods dodn’t like you slipping away into retirement… 😉
This has to be Kevin’s fault. No way this is a coincidence.
no doubt. a pox on your very soul, Kevin!
This isn’t Kevin’s fault. So A-Jax and Cabrera have an off night? The rest of the lineup has been getting no-hit regularly.
I’ve gotta admit, my first attempt at the post managed to shut down the site for about 4 min. I was petrified. If anyone logged in around 4:50pm central they saw it…
After a few minutes I got it worked out, but I can only guess that Ol’ Smokey logged in per usual to check the time of tonight’s game and get some lineup advice, saw the error, and suffered a brief lapse in judgment which caused him to bat 4 guys with a combined OPS south of 1.
We’ll all be back out there tomorrow. It’s a blessed curse like that.