Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 12, 2008
Cabrera Wins Some Fans

Mark Buehrle and Kenny Rogers each pitch eight strong innings, both allowing just one run. Todd Jones keeps the White Sox off the scoreboard in the ninth, and Dotel relieves Buehrle in the bottom of the inning. Ordonez leads off the inning and drives one to the wall, where it is caught. Cabrera follows with a long drive that finds the seats, and the Tigers sweep the White Sox by a score of 2-1. It's a huge hit for Cabrera, just his ninth home run of the season. Walkoffs against first place teams have a tendency to endear a player to the fan base.

Detroit is now 8 games out of first place and have five of their last six. They've also received two well pitched games in a row.


Posted by David Pinto at 03:13 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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In addition to Cabrera's big home run today, which displays the natural ability Tiger fans knew he had, he had a 14-pitch at bat in yesterday's game that displayed some of the grittiness/headiness fans were complaining he didn't have.

Great series for the Tigers.

Posted by: Matt in Toledo at June 12, 2008 03:29 PM

Will Ozzie now have to schedule another tirade?

Posted by: Casey Abell at June 12, 2008 03:37 PM

Here's the problem for the Tigres - who's going to give them the 3rd good start in a row?

Posted by: Bandit at June 12, 2008 04:52 PM

Another good sign for the Tigers and every other non-first-place team in the AL is that Tampa Bay holds the wild card right now. The Rays are improved but hardly a great team with an unimpressive +24 run diff.

Oakland, the second-placed team for the wild card, has actually played better than Tampa Bay. But neither team looks capable of running away with the wild card, so Detroit (and lots of other teams) could work their way into the postseason even if they can't catch their division leaders.

Posted by: Casey Abell at June 13, 2008 11:20 AM
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