Detroit Tigers Baseball

For a team that is missing their best player in Albert Pujols, the Cards looked pretty damn good. Maybe perspective was a little skewed after playing the Giants and the Padres, but it looks like Detroit ran into the same team that quietly handed their asses to them in the “06 World Series.
Pujols is eligible […]

Jeremy Bonderman lasted 4 whole innings, giving up 6 hits, 4 walks and 5 earned runs. When Dontrelle Willis comes back, Dombrowski is going to have to do something with one of these starters - DL, or reassignment (or trade). I would like to place my vote that the one pitcher they need to keep […]

They just couldn’t get it going against Jared Weaver. Ordonez had the only hot hand, but The Tigers just couldn’t string anything together, and looked flat all game. Verlander had his good stuff today, but got rocked in the 6th inning. It defies logic, really. Detroit had their actual starting line-up in for the first […]

That was a fantastic baseball game. I wish Detroit would have won, of course. But anybody that watched it knows they saw a great game. Robertson pitched very well, although the bottom stat line won’t necessarily reflect it. Guerrero hit a pitch out that only a few players in baseball could have hit out.
They […]

Robertson looked serviceable for the first few innings, then fell apart.
Sheffield is out with a bum shoulder.
Polanco hasn’t hit well this year, and is out with a bad back.
Jacque Jones has proven nothing.
Cabrera will do well, along with Ordonez, Guillen and maybe Renteria. But we will see no “Murderers Row”, as I mistakenly predicted after […]