In the picture above Ozzie Guillen is about to say a choice four-letter word that rhymes with fuck. (He got ejected in the 9th inning when he argued a ball call that looked like a sure strike three on Adam Everett. After the ejection, Guillen proceeded to throw his gum in the ump’s direction and tell him that he was an a-hole, repeatedly, before retiring to the clubby).
I said that same four-letter word when Brandon Inge made an error in the 6th inning that would have been the second out. It could have been meaningless, sure, but I got that “grandma just touched my food with her wrinkly fingers” feeling in my stomach. It wasn’t good (especially since the Tigers were a few innings away from having their club record tying 12th straight game without an error).
Podsednik then grounded out, which would have been the 3rd out of the inning. Instead, it was just the 2nd out and Gordon Beckham was allowed an opportunity to take an Eddie Bonine changeup bone yard. Sure enough, he did for his 14th HR of the season. 2-0 White Sox with both runs unearned. Oh, that homerdomer also broke up Bonine’s no-no. Double ouch.
Meanwhile, Detroit failed to score off the very good Jake Peavy and, at the end of the day, stared cross eyed at a 2-2-0 line for the White Sox against their own 0-6-1 line. According to Ed Price, it was just the fourth time in the last eight years that a MLB team has lost when allowing zero unearned runs on two hits.
Pouring salt on the wounds, the Tigers finished their loss to the White Sox just in time to get back in the clubby and watch the Twins finish off the Royals and pull within two games in the Central Division. It’s so nice of the Royals to play dominant against us and then re-take their respective position in the division as the red headed step children.
For the rest of the post I will leave you with some random thoughts/facts I’ve picked up on throughout the night:
- After the game, Jake Peavy admitted that he misses being in the National League. When the Tigers picked up two bunt singles in the third, he came back to the dugout and said, “Am I back in the National League?”
- It’s more impressive to think that the Tigers pitchers threw a two hitter with strictly rookies. That’s right, Bonine, Perry, Ni, and Fien are all rookies. (Thanks to Bless You Boys for pointing this out.)
- The Tigers have scored two or fewer runs 44 times this season (29%) and have won only six of those (.136) (H/T to commenter on BYB)
- Harold Reynolds of the MLB Network projected the Royals to win the Central Division this season. Man, was he wrong.
- The Twins are so hot right now they could take a crap, wrap it in tinfoil, put a couple fish hooks on it and sell it to Queen Elizabeth as earrings.
- It’s sad when the highlight on the Detroit Tigers website is the Polanco put out on the deflection off Bonine’s glove. A good play, but hardly worthy of a No. 1 spot on the highlight reel.
- Nate Robertson pitches against Freddy Garcia tomorrow. Hopefully, Freddy’s time with Detroit was enough for us to steal all his pitching habits and we score a hundred runs off him.
- When a pitcher has a no-hitter, don’t say anything about it and don’t speak in code language to avoid it. Think about it all you want, but don’t mention the no-no and don’t try to talk around it in a way that makes it as obvious as saying it straight up.
- Go Tigers!
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