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| A normally much more jubilant José Valverde bobbles the bunt for an error and goes on to take the loss and avoids ruining his perfect record of saved games. |
Going down the stretch is not going to be easy. This is what Jim Leyland has been saying all along. Just ask José Valverde. The Tigers had every chance to win this one ~ they out-hit the Twins 12 to 10 ~ they loaded the bases twice for naught ~ but the Minnesota Twins countered with several highlight-reel defensive plays and came out on top.
Errors by both José Valverde and Wilson Betemit in the top of the 9th did it.
Meanwhile, the Cleveland Indians woke up in Chicago and moved a game up on Detroit in the standings. There are only 4 games out of our division in the next 26 and the Tigers better get on the stick. Speaking of which - did you realize Jim Thome has more home runs in his last 2 games in Detroit than both Inge and Ordoñez have combined for the whole year?
Thursday is a day off for Detroit. I'm talking about the baseball team, not the 500,000 jobless in the State. This is the calm before the storm, as they say.
We'll be at CUBS' A.C. Friday night - if we are not one of the lucky ones sitting on the Party Bus - still trying to finish off that plate of Spaghetti and Meatballs from Wednesday evening and watching the game on the big screens.
GO TIGERS!!
Errors by both José Valverde and Wilson Betemit in the top of the 9th did it.
Meanwhile, the Cleveland Indians woke up in Chicago and moved a game up on Detroit in the standings. There are only 4 games out of our division in the next 26 and the Tigers better get on the stick. Speaking of which - did you realize Jim Thome has more home runs in his last 2 games in Detroit than both Inge and Ordoñez have combined for the whole year?
Thursday is a day off for Detroit. I'm talking about the baseball team, not the 500,000 jobless in the State. This is the calm before the storm, as they say.
We'll be at CUBS' A.C. Friday night - if we are not one of the lucky ones sitting on the Party Bus - still trying to finish off that plate of Spaghetti and Meatballs from Wednesday evening and watching the game on the big screens.
GO TIGERS!!
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