Always A Tiger

[chazmaniandevil]

Tigers And Cubs For 18 Runs/29 Hits; Cubs Take Finale

nice verb usage brah

[mfbmike]

Rodney Does It Again; Tigers Take Series Opener In Houston

(43-30) @ (50-22)


Gerald Laird congratulates rookie Ryan Perry on his 1st career save. Perhaps, the 1st of many to come.

The visiting Tigers and Astros went into extras in their interleague matchup tonight at Minute Maid Park, with Detroit eventually prevailing 3-2 in 10 innings. Josh Anderson launched a solo home run off the 1st pitch of the game and collected 2 other hits in the victory, including a double in the 10th that put Anderson into scoring position that led to the game winning RBI single off the bat of Magglio Ordonez. Dontrelle Willis pitched 7 shutout innings, but he didn't factor into the decision after Carlos Lee blasted a 2 run shot in the bottom of the 9th off of Fernando Rodney. However, in what doesn't seem like such a rare occurence anymore, Rodney was able to pick up his 3rd win of the season, after blowing the save.

The Tigers and Astros play game 2 tomorrow night, with Jeremy Bonderman (5-4 , 2.27 ERA) and Mike Hampton (7-3 , 3.19 ERA) the probable starters.



Tigers Pitching:
Dontrelle Willis 7IP | 5H | 0ER | 0BB | 6SO | 3.31 ERA
Joel Zumaya (H, 9) 1IP | 1H | 0ER | 0BB | 1SO | 3.72 ERA
Fernando Rodney (W, 3-0) 1IP | 2H | 2ER | 0BB | 1SO | 2.10 ERA
Ryan Perry (S, 1) 1IP | 0H | 0ER | 0BB | 2SO | 1.58 ERA


Astros Pitching:
Brian Moehler 7IP | 7H | 2ER | 0BB | 3SO | 3.51 ERA
Latroy Hawkins 1IP | 1H | 0ER | 0BB | 0SO | 1.89 ERA
Geoff Geary (L, 5-2) 2IP | 4H | 1ER | 0BB | 1SO | 0.97 ERA

Tigers Lineup:
CF Josh Anderson 3-5
2B Placido Polanco 0-5
RF Magglio Ordonez 3-5
1B Miguel Cabrera 1-5
SS Michael Young 1-5 | K
LF Ryan Church 1-4
3B Brandon Inge 1-4 | 2K
C Gerald Laird 2-4
P Dontrelle Willis 0-3 | K

PH Carlos Guillen 0-1 | K

2B: Ordone (9) , Anderson (4)
HR: Anderson (2)
RBI: Ordonez (54) , Anderson (12) , Laird (27)
R: Anderson 2 , Church

Astros Lineup:
2B Kazuo Matsui 0-4 | K
C Ivan Rodriguez 1-4 | 2K
1B Lance Berkman 1-4 | K
LF Carlos Lee 2-4 | 2K
SS Miguel Tejada 1-4
CF Jason Michaels 0-4
RF Michael Bourn 1-4 | 2K
3B Jeff Keppinger 1-2
P Brian Moehler 1-2

3B Jason Smith 0-1
PH Hunter Pence 0-1 | K
PH Reggie Abercrombie 0-1
PH Humberto Quintero 0-1 | K

HR: Lee (13)
RBI: Lee 2 (45)
R: Lee , Berkman
GIDP: Michaels , Rodriguez

Player Of The Game:

Josh Anderson

Anderson kicked this game off with a bang, hitting his 2nd dinger of the year on the very 1st pitch.

[goDawgs1433]

Wait wait wait...Astros are 50-22? What is going on here? are they paying the umps?

[mfbmike]

No idea how they are 50-23. But they are. lol. They might even be the winningest team in the league right now.

[goDawgs1433]

That is...shocking

[chazmaniandevil]

lawl the stros, nice win

[Miggy]

LMAO @ the Astros being the winningest team in the league. wtf is wrong with Miggy he's in a huge slump

[mfbmike]

LMAO @ the Astros being the winningest team in the league. wtf is wrong with Miggy he's in a huge slump

Tell me about it. He's descending back to earth apparently. He's been hitting 350 for the season, tearing it up but has slowed down drastically.

Magglio is now batting a better percentage and is about to catch him in RBI. I don't know what's going on. I got two solid hits with Miggy but their outfielders were able to make plays on the ball.

One should've been a homer but it went just left of that extended deck out in left field. Right where the outfield extends a little further out.

It's funny how I talked about breaking out of the long ball slump in the last series review.

Josh Anderson leads off the game and drills a homer on the 1st pitch so I'm thinking I was gonna kill shit in this game. Such was not the case.

At least Church got his first hit (and run) in a Tigers uniform. :D

[goDawgs1433]

Church is a beast, Mike.

[Miami Flash15]

Really like your 'chise, I'm following!

[mfbmike]

Bonderman Gets Roughed Up, Astros Take Game 2

(44-30) @ (50-23)


Jeremy Bonderman could only hang his head after Lance Berkman blasted a 2 run shot that put the Astros out in front 5-2.

The Tigers ended up on the losing end of a 5-4 affair with the Astros tonight in Houston. Miguel Cabrera brought in 2 runs on a 1 for 3 performance at the plate in the losing effort. Jeremy Bonderman was the starter and loser, working 5 innings and allowing 5 runs on 7 hits in defeat.

Astros second baseman Kazuo Matsui suffered from shoulder soreness early in the contest and left the game early and is now listed as day to day.

The series will wrap up tomorrow afternoon, with the Tigers starting Rick Porcello (5-5 , 3.26 ERA) and the Astros turning to Russ Ortiz (3-2 , 3.81 ERA).



Tigers Pitching:
Jeremy Bonderman (L, 5-5) 5IP | 7H | 5ER | 0BB | 6SO | 2.61 ERA
Juan Rincon 1IP | 1H | 0ER | 0BB | 1SO | 2.87 ERA
Bobby Seay 2IP | 0H | 0ER | 0BB | 2SO | 3.85 ERA

Astros Pitching:
Mike Hampton (W, 8-3) 6IP | 7H | 3ER | 1BB | 2SO | 3.27 ERA
Latroy Hawkins (H, 6) 1IP | 0H | 0ER | 0BB | 0SO | 1.83 ERA
Wesley Wright (H, 6) 1IP | 2H | 1ER | 0BB | 0SO | 2.22 ERA
Jose Valverde (S, 21) 1IP | 2H | 0ER | 0BB | 0SO | 4.24 ERA

Tigers Lineup:
CF Curtis Granderson 0-5 | K
LF Ryan Church 2-4
RF Magglio Ordonez 2-4
1B Miguel Cabrera 1-3
SS Michael Young 0-4
3B Brandon Inge 1-4 | K
C Matt Treanor 1-4
2B Adam Everett 1-2 | BB
P Jeremy Bonderman 1-1

PH Carlos Guillen 1-1
PH Placido Polanco 0-1
PH Mike Hessman 1-1

2B: Ordonez (10)
3B: Cabrera (2) , Inge (2)
RBI: Granderson (42) , Cabrera 2 (59) , Treanor (5)
R: Church , Ordonez , Inge , Everett
SF: Cabrera
SAC: Bonderman
GIDP: Everett

Astros Lineup:
CF Michael Bourn 0-3 | 2K
C Ivan Rodriguez 1-4 | K
1B Lance Berkman 2-4 | K
LF Carlos Lee 1-4
SS Miguel Tejada 2-4 | 2K
RF Hunter Pence 0-4 | K
3B Jeff Keppinger 0-4 | 2K
2B Matt Kata 0-2
P Mike Hampton 2-3

2B: Lee (22) , Tejada (21) , Berkman (18)
HR: Berkman (25)
RBI: Lee 2 (47) , Berkman 3 (64)
R: Bourn , Rodriguez , Berkman 2 , Hampton
HBP: Kata , Bourn

Player Of The Game:

Lance Berkman

It's easy to see why the Astros are having a successful year. Berkman went 2 for 4, and hit his 25th dinger of the year.

[Justo]

Tigers Pithoung:

????? what the hell is this mike elementary school????!!!!!

lol jk rough game

[mfbmike]

lol, when I do my updates, I use replace in notepad. replaced all "chi" with "hou".

So yeah...that's how that got fucked up. Thanks, fixed.

[mfbmike]

tough loss, Hampton 2-3

Didn't he hit like 7 homers one year as a pitcher? But yeah....I got my first base hit as a pitcher this year. lol. Bonderman drove one back up the box.

That game was rough. I had runners on the corners in the bottom of the 9th but couldn't bring Guillen home. Granderson 0-5....I guess playing him with a strained finger wasn't such a good idea. :y:

[Miggy]

Miggy hit a triple?! the sky must be falling