HOLY COW! Tigers win by 16
posted in 2007 season, New York Yankees |Detroit 16, Yankees 0
OK. That was a whoopin’. And that as the best evidence you can put forth that the Tigers are still a team to be reckoned with.
It’s hard to category what went right in this game because it’s hard to find anything that didn’t go right. I guess, you can criticize Brandon Inge for not earing enough lunch, causing both possible home-run blasts to bounce off the left field fence instead. And… well that’s about it. Pretty much everyone who picked up a Tigers bat had a good day. Sean Casey picked up his first triple(!!) since 2004. Inge had three doubles. Placido Polanco homered. Curtis Granderson added a 17th steal and 33rd double to his total, to go with 17 homers and 21 triples. It seems almost certain he’ll join the 4×20 club, as a full month remains of the season.
Justin Verlander stepped up and was just awesome. He went seven innings and threw fewer than 100 pitches. That saved the bullpen and showed that his previous game was just an off day. And you probably noticed, the Tigers got a rare shutout — quite a feat when you consider the Yankees offense is so good.
Yanks CF Melky Cabrera also made a heck of a catch in center field, robbing Carlos Guillen of two RBIs in the first inning on a running, running, running, running stab of a ball. You have to give him props for that.
So, the Tigers took 3 of 4 from the Yankees for this series and tied the Bombers 4-4 for the season series. Definitely, good signs. Although the Yanks have cooled some (and been cooled by Detroit), they came into the season series red hot and I don’t think many people gave the Tigers much chance at splitting.
If they don’t suffer a letdown in Kansas City, we could look back at the 3:30 a.m. walkoff victory as the start of something big. Let’s hope so.
Update 1: “It was the most one-sided road shutout loss in the Yankees’ history, topping a 15-0 defeat at the Chicago White Sox on July 15, 1907, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.” (AP gamer)
Sphere It
I thought it showed a lack of class on the part of the Tigers to go for the two-point conversion the second time.
This team, and its Todd Jones attitude, are killing me. One game, I’m ready to give up and call it over. And then they go and win 3 of 4 against the Yanks. I don’t know what to think anymore. At least its interesting. If they can beat the Royals and A’s on the road, maybe this thing can get turned the right way.