Game 118: The losing streak ends!
posted in Boston Red Sox |Well, That was a nice way to start off a series in Boston and end a losing streak: When Curtis Granderson led off with a triple and soon after scored, the team looked very loose in the dugout. Very happy. Even Pudgey. They didn’t resemble a team that was struggling, stressed, or worried at all. So Jim Leyland worked his magic. When the Tigers remembered how to take a walk — to the tune of six for the game — the offense looked pretty good. Combine that with another nice pitching performance by Nate Robertson, and the Tigers won, 7-4.
Like a hitting streak, one win does not mean the bad baseball is over. It was for a day, but we won’t really know for a couple of days if they’ve righted the ship or just looked like it. They might have. But, really, it’s way too early to say, so I won’t. But I am going to enjoy the mostly relaxing game. It feels nice to win for the first time in a week.
The Tigers did some good things. The head’s up play (credited to Omar Infante) by Carlos Guillen to get Manny Ramirez out at home plate was nice. Sean Casey’s two-out hit off the Green Monster was much needed in the third inning and made the game 5-0. And putting two runs on the board in the eighth inning when Boston came within 5-3? That was huge. It would have been nice to hold the Red Sox scoreless in the bottom half of the inning (or for Joel Zumaya to have a glove installed on his shoe) but they were hitting it pretty well. In all, the Tigers just displayed a lot more good habits and a lot fewer bad habits.
So I have hope. Cautiously optimistic. But hope.
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