12th
August
2008
Miner good. Tigers bad.
posted in 2008 season, Toronto Blue Jays |Jays 6
Tigers 4
Recap:
- Maybe it wasn’t “Miner good, Tigers bad” so much as “Miner good, Tigers bullpen smells like a bag of weekold doggie doo left in the steamy hot sun.”
- Miner allowed 1 run on 1 walk and 5 hits in 6 innings while striking out 5. He took 103 pitches to get there and Leyland pulled him after the sixth. The only run was on a home run.
- Then it all went to hell.
- Bobby Seay, who rarely stumbles, did. Joel Zumaya, who rarely bails out a pitcher, failed to help.
- I guess Farnsworth didn’t do anything wrong. And Dolsi allowed in another run in the ninth, walked two and allowed two hits.
- On the offensive side, well, Gary Sheffield hit a pair of solo home runs. Mad Sheff = Hitting Sheff!
- Magglio also homered.
- The Tigers fell back to 3 under .500.
Analysis:
- Same storyline, different day.
- The emergence of Zach Miner as a viable starter is great news for next year. I think it’s really too early to begin to analyse or predict any of that stuff. But he’s definitely proving he deserves the opportuntiy next year. It could save the Tigers some money, which is good, while giving them a nice change of pace pitcher.
- Did Sheff drive up his value any? I doubt it. But as I suspect he’ll be a Tiger this year and likely next, it’s nice to see him proving he can still hit. Just needs to do it a lot more often.
