9th
July
2008
Game 90: that’s why you watch baseball
posted in 2008 season |Tigers 8
Indians 6
Recap:
- Well, that’s why you watch baseball if you’re a Tigers fan. If you’re an Indians fan you probably don’t want to see it for awhile.
- Detroit rallied from a 6-0 deficit to win 8-6 on a walk-off home run by Miguel Cabrera.
- A five-run seventh inning, highlighted by a home run by Matt Joyce, helped Detroit claw back into it and tie the game at 6-6.
- Joyce had three hits.
- Eddie Bonine gave up five runs on nine hits and didn’t make it out of the fourth inning.
- Casey Fossum struck out six and did pretty good in relief.
- Todd Jones did his “oh crap we’re all gonna dieeeee!” impersonation in the ninth but a couple key defensive plays by Carlos Guillen bailed him out nicely.
Anaylsis:
- The Tigers desperately needed that win. They can’t rely on the White Sox ever losing apparently. They’ve just come back again. So Detroit avoided falling 8 games out. The Twins got their butts kicked in Boston, fortunately. So that’s another game closer heading into a big four game series in Comerica Park.
- Bonine stunk but the Tigers just fight-fight-fight and that’s why they’ve been so fun to watch for the past month-plus.
- Miguel Cabrera!!! I said it in the past and I stuck with it all the way through. We are going to be so spoiled as fans who get to watch several years of him in our team’s uniform. That hip flexor injury must have woke him up. He’s been phenomenal lately.
Other stuff:
- FSN reports Dane Sardinha has been optioned back to Toledo. Bonine is headed all the way down to Erie.
- Brandon Inge is on his way back up. And Jeff Larish did they say?
- I presume they’ll need to find a starting pitcher by four days from now. *I just realized, with a little help from Dave Dombrowski, four days from now is the all-star break.
- And what’s up with a 1 p.m. game on a Thursday that’s not a getaway game?
Joyce gets three hits plus the two run game tying tater. I think it’s connected to the cat he saved. They need to name the cat. I propose the name “Tater.”
Eh, they always play Thursday day games. I don’t think this is the first time they’ve done it on a non-getaway day. Before every game was selling out, they actually seemed to draw better for Thursday day games than the typical Monday through Wednesday night games. I think that’s one of the reasons for playing the day games.
Maybe it just doesn’t come up enough. Thursday is so frequently getawayday or on the road that I easily gloss over it. It just feels weird to play a day when you don’t have to, unless you’re the Cubs or something.
Kurt — it’s seems way weird to me too, and I think the scheduler is really messing with Tigers.
Oh my god do I hate the twins - and todd jones. If last nights game saved the season, this one might have torched it.
You just summed everything up FJ.
UGH