Detroit Tigers: 48-39, 1st Place (2.5 ahead of Cleveland).
Well the Tigers made what looked like a potential blowout game interesting, only to have a bullpen fail that left them a few runs short. The 11 runners left on base didn’t help, former Indian Jhonny Peralta being the biggest offender (6).
At any rate, the Tigers still have an 8-3 lead in the season series, and have a chance to win the road series with a victory tonight, which would bring them to a very nice 7-4 on what looked to be a difficult 11-game road trip.
Tonight Magic Max looks to round off his charmed first half with a perfect 14-0 on his way to being the All-Star game starting pitcher (if I may make a wild prediction). The record, by the way, for consecutive wins to start a season is 15-0, set by Cleveland’s Johnny Allen in 1937 and tied by Baltimore’s Dave McNally in 1969.
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The Home Run Derby teams will be chosen tonight, too late for this post. I will be shocked if reigning champ Prince Fielder is not on the AL team. No word on whether Brandon Inge will get an invitation for the NL team.
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I mentioned yesterday that this season will be Miguel Cabrera’s first All-Star game start. Since someone asked me who the starters were on the other years he went, I figured I would list them:
- 2004 NL RF Sammy Sosa
- 2005 NL LF Carlos Beltran
- 2006 NL 3B David Wright
- 2007 NL 3B David Wright
- 2010 AL 1B Justin Morneau*
- 2011 AL 1B Adrian Gonzalez
- 2012 AL 3B Adrian Beltre
*Cabrera actually started the game, since Morneau was scratched with a concussion.
You’ll note the gap in 2008-2009, which goes to show the difficulties in adjusting to a new league, if only in reputation–Cabrera’s numbers were actually quite good, even in the first half:
- 2008 first half .284/.837, 16 HR 57 RBI
- 2009 first half .321/.926, 18 HR 50 RBI
2009 of course is the famous season when Brandon Inge made the All-Star team and Miguel Cabrera did not.
Today’s Player of the Pre-game: Torii Hunter. Torii is heading into the All-Star game in style: he is on a 7-game hitting streak in which he is batting .419.
Today’s Mash-For-Max Lineup:
- Jackson, CF
- Hunter, RF
- Cabrera, 3B
- Fielder, 1B
- Martinez, DH
- Peralta, SS
- Tuiasosopo, LF
- Pena, C
- Santiago, 2B
Comments
29 responses to “Game 2013.88: Tigers at Indians”
The Tiger Official site show Tui and Pena starting ….. what gives?
That was just a temporary placeholder until I saw the official list. It’s nice to know we have on-the-ball readers here!
Probably never should have started this game…waste of a Max outing.
Sloppy, rainy day. That double steal cost the Tigers a run.
Loved the write-up Coleman. Interesting stuff.
Let’s go Max.
A disabled Tui ain’t so disabled.
He should be playing a lot more. Chances are that after this game he sits for another week.
If Tui hit 3 HR in his first 3 AB and in his fourth trip to the plate he would be facing a RH, Leyland would pinch hit for him.
In that situation, which player do you bat?
Vs. RH:
A) .256/.316/.354/.670
B) .333/.400/.704/1.104
Sometimes baseball is a simple game,
Having tons of problems with MLB.com and At Bat. The gameday audio for Cle seems to be working.
Yeah, it never quite came back after the rain delay.
We shoud be hammering Kazmir, but the top of the order is on vacation.
Scherzer is getting stronger. He’s at least got 1 more in him. Let’s get him a few runs here and take the series.
Scherzer can only get a W or no decision now. Let’s go Tigers.
A quick inning for Rondon. That’s good.
The typical 7-8-9 Show returns.
Hey Smokey ….. where’s Al Al ….. he’s due for a good inning?
The only difference I see between Rondon and Valverde is that Rondon’s fastball is faster. Big deal. Neither one of them has a second pitch they can count on, which makes them incredibly vulnerable at the ML level.
We don’t need the clown show to come in now!
Extra innings:
Det 2-9
Cle 5-0
Plus, what is the Tigers record for getaway games?
Atta-boy VMART!
Yes!!
Good come from behind win and great road trip!
OK, a winning road trip.
Even with a little hiccup there, I think I could get used to the Smyly/Benoit 1-2 punchout thing.
this series was a dagger to the Indians….we might look back on this win as a big one.Even though its early for those…
Infante to DL. Hernan Perez called up from Erie.
That took long enough.