Dice-K catches Tiger napping
posted in 2007 season, Boston Red Sox |Boston 7, Tigers 1
The good about playing on ESPN: national TV. Out-of-town fans can see the game. So can family of players. The bad? arriving at your team hotel at 4 a.m., waiting on your luggage and playing a game later that day.
That’s baseball. I’m sure the Tigers wouldn’t use it as an excuse. Playing against Dice-K probably had something to do with the results as well. But you can’t tell me that scenario would be easy on anyone’s body, little lone an athlete playing against one of the top team’s in baseball later that day.
Anyway, my fellow blogger, Curtis Granderson, homered to right field. The Tigers got a few batters on base but generally didn’t do much against Dice-K.
Robertson pitched fine, came out after a tough five. Newcomer Tim Byrdak showed a great two innings on the mound. Good for him. Hopefully he can keep it up. Then Bobby Seay just made a mess on the mound. In two games, the Detroit bullpen has allowed 14 runs. At least if the Tigers were going to lose two games, they lost two games they weren’t going to win anyway. There were no dramatic blowups.
Justin Verlander takes the mound Tuesday. Hopefully the kid is a stopper. By the way, Granderson is right, while the media loves to set up everything as a test, it’s just one series in Boston in May.
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