illustration by Samara Pearlstein
Bringing back a TC from last season as it becomes relevant again, mmm, yes.
Max Scherzer gave up 5 runs in the second inning. The Tigers were not scoring against Jeremy Guthrie. If that doesn’t spell DOOM then I don’t know what does, aside from the letters D, M, and O. Even after the Tigers finally broke through and scored, it was just one run, and it was a weeny sac fly. It seemed like we were going to have to resign ourselves to a stupid loss against a stupid team because Justin Verlander was not pitching and the Tigers therefore were not obligated to make any special effort to win the game.
Then the 6th inning happened. Jeremy Guthrie remembered that he was Jeremy Guthrie. It went a little something like this:
-Austin Jackson grounds out. Andy Dirks grounds out. There are 2 outs in the inning, everyone makes sad sighing sounds.
-Magglio doubles.
-Miggy hits a two-run homer.
-Victor singles.
-Jhonny sihngles.
-Avila hits an RBI ground-rule double.
-The Rhino hits a two-run single.
-Jeremy Guthrie is removed from the game and sent to ruminate on his shame.
-Betemit lines out to end the inning.
At the start of the inning it was 5-1 Orioles. When the dust settled after all that, it was 6-5 Tigers and the entire tone of the game had changed. Max came back out with a fire in his eyes– a blue fire in his right eye and a brown flame in his left– and set about destroying the Birds in the time he had remaining. His last inning was Verlander-esque: well over 100 pitches, he was hitting 95 mph and above on his fastball. Despite allowing two singles, he struck out the side in his last inning. The very last batter he faced, JJ Hardy, was K’d on a slider of such majesty that it would make David Cone nod in solemn approval.
Thanks to a combination of not-sad Phil Coke and the usual Papa Grande, the Tigers hung on and won a game that they seemingly had no business at all winning. Max finished up the night with a very weird line (7.0 innings, 5 runs [4 earned], 7 hits [2 HRs], 0 walks, 10 Ks, and the Win), but it’s all good. We’ll take it.
Jhonny sihngles….
I first read shingles and wondered about chicken pox for the elderly. Then I realized my error and couldn’t stop laughing. Spell check must go nuts!
Max is riding Pi!
i hate pi. why does it have to be pi !?!? pi follows me wherever i go
Dan Uggla’s streak is finally over kinda wish the Tigers would’ve looked into him at trading deadline probably couldn’t afford him like we can with DL Island member Carlos probably has a membership for a suite or something Dirks almost broke his elbow because of the stupid concreit fence. Go Tigres beat the dreaded snackfood!
Stupid team?!? Stupid??! )8-/
Sorry– ‘baseball challenged’. :P
it’s not nice to call Baltimore stupid. they have enough to worry about. as tigers fans we only have the right to call other AL central teams stupid such as freaken Chicago or mega-stupid like Kansas City
Alas, I cannot rebut that statement.
*hangs head*
DELMON… DELMON…. DELMON DELMON DELMON ( to Jaws Theme Song ) this is Just In Casey. ReDIRKulous!
i cant remember… is it delmon that’s ex-tiger’s/now in prison little brother or delwon young?
that’s gonna be tricky, Sam, to make something for Young but judging by your doug fister i know you won’t disapoint us : ) good luck
and
600!!!600!!! Jim Thome! Yeah
(so wish he was wearing the old english d)
LAB its DAMEAT who’s in prison and apparently Delwyn isn’t appart of the messed up family we have come to know and love. this is TFS07 just to let you know.
i deffinitly know and its not as messed up as those weavers
Dmitri Young is not in prison. He was arrested midsummer last year for marijuana possession and briefly jailed, then released on a $100 bail– we’re NOT talking a major offense here, this was at most a misdemeanor.
Don’t spread this kind of bunk around like it’s fact when you have no idea what you’re talking about. Maliciously spreading rumors of unfounded criminality about ballplayers is just that– malicious, and stupid.
mostly stupid and yeah i heard this from a rumor