Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Indians 3, Tigers 2, 14 innings.

  
      Here's the perfect definition of a heartbreaker: after a two-hour rain delay your bullpen goes twelve scoreless innings, then you lose on a hit-by-pitch after you walked the bases loaded. Yep, that sounds a lot like the Tigers game last night.
     Here are the two things I think sunk the Tigers: 1. They left TEN guys on base and 2. They were 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position.
     Also there was the fact that it was a four hour and forty-three minute game that ended at 1:52 a.m. ET. As Tigers reliever Daniel Schlereth said, "We're going to sleep on this and get rid of this game. We'll be back here ready to win tomorrow--er, I'm sorry, later today."      
      I was planning to give the starting pitchers' stats from the game but since  the bullpens' of both teams pitched twelve innings I'll give the bullpen stats: the Indians used six pitchers, who combined for twelve strikeouts in thirteen innings. The Tigers used eight pitchers in twelve innings, allowing only two hits until the 14th inning when David Pauly walked Asdruble Cabrera, gave up a hit to Travis Halfner, intentionally walked Carlos Santana then--on the 439th pitch of the game--hit Kosuke Fukudome to end the game.
     There you have it, a walk-off hit-by-pitch.
     Thanks for reading and go Tigers!!!
Kosuke Fukudome, now an Indian.


1 comment:

  1. Come on, Tigers! You can bounce back. Ubaldo is awesome but he can't pitch every game. Good luck today!

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