29th
April
2007
Game 23: Inge powers Tigers
posted in 2007 season, Minnesota Twins, around the central |Tigers win, 4-3
Gum Time worked.
I don’t know what was more important:
- Brandon Inge went 3-for-3 with a walk. Oh, and a walk-off home run.
- Mike Maroth dueled Johan Santana inning for inning for the quality start. Maroth’s innings were boring, but in baseball that tends to be a very good thing. Most of the time Minnesota just seemed to fly out to Magglio Ordonez.
- Marcus Thames got to start today and played nearly the entire game. He again made the best of it, hitting a homer off Santana to give the Tigers a 3-2 lead.
- Joel Zumaya got a chance to regroup and gain his confidence, saving Maroth when a runner was left on third with two outs after Maggs and Curtis Granderson didn’t quite communicate who should catch a fly and neither of them did. Zoomer then pitched a clean eighth.
- Todd Jones pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to earn the victory.
- More than 36,000 Tigers fans (again) went home happy
Pretty much, that’s all important. The pitched synced up. The pitching and the hitting both came together in a game the Tigers very much wanted to win. I seriously hope we see a lot more Thames at first base. He got the start because Sean Casey was sick.
Around the Central:
Cleveland 6, Baltimore 1. — Cleveland starter Fausto Carmona pitched into the ninth. Casey Blake homered.
Angels are leading White Sox.