Grandy, Pudgy, draw day off
posted in Milwaukee Brewers, Random |I feel like I borrowed the Detroit Tigers Weblog’s fashion of pregame and postgame comments today!
POSTGAME:
And it’s 1, 2, 13 strikeouts you’re out at the old…ball…game. Detroit dropped a 4-3 decision that saw the Tigers head back to the dugout 13 times by way of K. Brandon Inge accounted for four of those all by himself. Chris Shelton added another with the bases loaded for him in the eighth inning. Joel Zumaya proved he is human, offering up a two-run home run to Rickie Weeks that turned out to be the deciding factor after Nate Robertson pitched seven innings. Despite the Tigers’ bats offering up eight strikeouts to Milwaukee starter Chris Capuano, Robertson nearly outdueled his counter part, allowing three runs (two earned) on seven hits and struck out seven. The Tigers commited an uncharacteristic two errors in the contest.
PREGAME:
Curtis Granderson and Pudge both drew the off day against Milwaukee, so Brewers pitcher Chris Capuano will be facing Brandon Inge at the top of the lineup. I’m sure that .287 OBP is intimidating.
UPDATE: Actually it’s .333 on the road.
Capuano is a pretty good pitcher. The Brewers’ ace has nice NL numbers, edging out our own Nate Robertson today in most categories. This was the game I pegged for the Tigers to lose in the Milwaukeee series. Hopefully I’ll be wrong.
Check back after the game. Or you can watch on ESPN’s game tracker, as I’m forced to do for an inning or two before I go do something productive.
