16 August 2011

Jim Thome Hits #600 - Tigers Lose

Young In - Ordoñez Out

A bunch of folks wanted to see the Tigers win, but
they watched history in the making instead.
Actually, we would have rather liked to see more from this game instead of just nice, fuzzy memories for Twins fans.  On the day Magglio Ordoñez gets platooned and Delmon Young introduces himself to a Tigers uniform, hitting a home run in his first at-bat, Detroit comes up short on the scoreboard 9-6.

You can credit Jim Thome.  The new man in the 600 Club hit TWO home runs.  His second hit was a 3-run shot off Daniel Schlereth in the 7th inning that propelled Minnesota to the win.  Let's hear it!  Yeah.

And Maggs is now seeing the writing on the wall.  The man the Detroit Tigers held on to for so long for in the number 3 slot has not been able to get any closer to his career batting average than 50 percentage points under and now he is looking at retirement.

The Tigers are now only 2 games ahead of Cleveland, and remember there are a lot of games in the next stretch against AL Central foes only.

So what are you going to do about it?!?  I suggest you join us at CUBS' AC and watch the game Tuesday night on the big screens while chowing down one or more of the Big Eleven Burgers.

Go TIGERS!!

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