OT - Tigers try to avoid sweep by BoSox
Couple interesting things:
Delmon dropped to sixth in the order. Boesch moved up to 5.
Porcello looking good so far.
Win puts us 2.5 back, loss 3.5.
Absolute moon shot by Cabrera followed by another bomb from Fielder - all with two outs.
Tigers up 6-1!!!
Mama dare goes that man again
Throw ém the heater Ricky!
well, no outs with bases loaded could have ended up worse I suppose
see the offense come alive. This has been a perplexing road trip to say the least, given how well the homestand went prior. What can you say about Cabby, he isclearly the best pure hitter in the game IMO, and still doesn't get the credit he deserves nationally. Personally I think he is the AL MVP at the moment, though I suspect he will get overlooked.
Delmon and Boesch was due to the starter's splits against right and left handed hitters. They mentioned on the radio that lefties had hit over .300 against Cook this year. Neither one has had a good road trip (like most of the lineup). The bottom line to me is that the Tigers are going to need more out of Delmon, Boesch, Avila and Peralta if they want to win the division and have a reasonable chance to go deep in the playoffs. The AL is just stacked this year.
Ugh.... Tigers doing there best to blow it... Lead down to 2.
In general, Coke is fine in the role he is in now.........until something bad happens behind him. God forbid if there's an error, a blown double play, or something of that nature. After that, he has no ability to recover adjust or recover mentally, and before you know it, 4 runs are in. That's what killed him as a starter.
Uh-oh...
Andrew Miller sighting!!! Nice beard!
August 1st, 2012 at 10:13 PM ^
need some guys (Boesch, Peralta, Avila, Delmon) to get going a little bit/ be more consistent. There not asking anybody to do more than they are capable of, they just need to play at the level that they have demostrated in their careers. Not to mention the fact hat V-Mart could be back for the last month of the season. I not sure why you don't think this team can win the division, when the same group of players won it by 15 games last season.
It has certainly been a head stratching roadtrip, but that is baseball. It is a funny game. My concern about this team is not about winning the division since I am still reasonably confident that they will. The concern is how stacked the American League is this year, the level of play needed to win the AL Central is not going to cut in the AL playoffs. They need to get to a higher level than that, like they were able to do last season.
August 1st, 2012 at 10:56 PM ^
August 1st, 2012 at 10:01 PM ^
DELETE THIS THREAD!
We need to make a rule: NO MORE TIGERS THREADS! They always lose.
August 1st, 2012 at 10:04 PM ^
August 1st, 2012 at 10:06 PM ^
Pesky's Pole helps the Tigers out
August 1st, 2012 at 10:09 PM ^
August 1st, 2012 at 10:48 PM ^
We had to let you guys get one.
August 1st, 2012 at 10:50 PM ^
August 1st, 2012 at 10:51 PM ^
HAHA! We had to let you make up some ground on the wild card... cause you ain't the Yankees!
/Just being a dick because you were.
All in good fun here. The back to back homers killed us. Miggy's homer, yeesh.
August 1st, 2012 at 10:53 PM ^
We had to let you guys get one.
Actually, we let you get a game closer to contention. Maybe, some day, you'll inch into a wild card spot (though probably the bastard wild card spot).