Bondo wins, Sheff smacks one
posted in 2007 season, Baltimore Orioles |Tigers win, 8-4
Well, that was interesting. Jeremy Bonderman finally got a win. Gary Sheffield finally got a home run at his new home. Oh, and the teams waltzed a bit in the rain.
To start, Bonderman got his win in a game he didn’t pitch all that great in. While it wasn’t televised up here, nine hits and a walk over five innings isn’t the typical outing we expect of Bondo. He did give up two runs in the first inning, which was a bit more of what he is wont to do. He gave up four runs and had four strikeouts.
Daniel Cabrera, on the other hand, just couldn’t find his control, period. He gave up six walks and threw 56 strikes-52 balls for 108 pitches over five innings.
The real interesting parts of the game came in spurts. Bonderman nearly hit Miguel Tejada, which spurred Cabrera to hit Sheffield, which caused Bonderman to throw at Tejada a second time. And then both dugouts emptied after Tejada pointed his bat at Bonderman and took a step toward the mound. Well, there was a lot of yelling, a lot of guys holding each other back, and not much of interest happened. So that sputtered out.
But Sheffield remembered what Cabrera did and hit a majestic home run to left field. For a few moments I thought it was going to go wham-o into the scoreboard, but it eventually lost momentum.
Detroit increased its walks total to 88, which should put them around the upper third of the American League, pending other games. That is a great change for the team. But I fear they’ll never pass any team in the A.L. East, because those get to see Cabrera a lot more.
Magglio Ordonez remained hot, going 2-for-2.
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Wow, sounded like an interesting game, but I didn’t get to see it as Monday nights are when we play basketball. Are you sure it wasn’t on in MQ, because it was on FSN+ last night on DirecTV. I still have yet to see Sheff hit a home run, maybe I should not watch more games.
I checked all the “open” channels. The normal FSN+ channel had a Marquette School Board meeting. The other charter channel had Marquette city commission. A third just had ESPN radio and Ishpeming’s notes.