Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 18, 2008
Meeting Expectations

The Tigers defeated the San Francisco Giants Tuesday night 5-1. In their last eleven games, Detroit scored five runs or more nine times and allowed less than five runs eight times. That's more like the way I expected the team to play this season. Over the 9-2 stretch, they've scored 61 runs while allowing 40, an average margin over their opponents of about two runs. They've briefly found their stride, now they need to show they can sustain it over a longer period of time.

Marcus Thames

16 June 2008: Marcus Thames (33) hits his second homer during the San Francisco Giants' 8-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers at AT&T Park in San Francisco, CA.
Photo: Icon SMI

Marcus Thames hit another home run last night. That five straight games for the Detroit outfielder, three short of the consecutive game record. He's also homered in six of his last seven games, seven dingers in total for a 1.273 slugging percentage over the stretch. Those seven are his only hits in those games. He's taking his all or nothing approach to hitting to the max in this stretch.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:51 AM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
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I saw some comments a couple of days ago that gave the Tigers little chance of making the playoffs. While they do still need to demonstrate that they are able to sustain things over time, it seems to me that based on what most were projecting before the season, it's more reasonable to expect them to continue as they are playing now than to expect what they did for the first two months of the season.

A .620 winning percentage the rest of the way gives them 90 wins, which is where the White Sox current rate puts them. A .620 winning percentage over the course of the season produces 100 wins, which is about what many were projecting for the Tigers, so I'd say it's a reasonable expectation that will catch the White Sox.

Go Tigers!

Posted by: tom at June 18, 2008 06:14 PM
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