Tigers 2, Cleveland 1

I couldn’t watch. I mean, I really couldn’t watch. Work. But even if I could watch, I’d have been afraid to watch. Fortunately, Jair Jurrjens and the bullpen (!) had full control over the situation, and the Tigres pulled within 1/2 game of the Central lead by one-hitting Cleveland.

Notably, Joel Zumaya pitched in the seven, while the eighth and ninth were pitched by Fernando Rodney and Todd Jones. It’s amazing to type that as if it’s something special. But, that’s baseball. Hopefully, Zoomer, Rodney and Jones pitching in late innings with the lead successfully becomes more commonplace again. But as important as they were, the star of the night was again JJ.

The only hit was the only run, as Jhonny Peralta homered off Jurrjens in the sixth. Before that, JJ allowed just a walk to the leadoff batter of the game and another in the fifth inning. After that, he gave up a pair of walks. So he spread his baserunners out pretty good and got a pair of double plays. Defense obviously contributed pretty well.

Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Guillen both homered. Curtis Granderson had a double. Those three hits were all Fausto Carmona allowed, but the Tigers only needed two runs. Maggs apparently was fan-aided, from the replays.

It was a good old-fashioned Tigers win, basically. Wish I could have seen it!

I don’t know if Jurrjens will keep his starting role if Kenny Rogers comes back healthy. Probably not. But I still doubt Rogers comes back healthy. In any case, it’s good to see he can make it at the major league level, and that fact alone could save the Tigers millions in the offseason so they could put the money toward places it is better spent. Of course, it is only two starts… But so far, so good.

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