Tigers On Top

When the Tigers are on a winning streak, time seems to pass at a ridiculous pace. And even on a losing streak so tiny it barely even deserves the name, days seem to stretch out and last about a week each.

What happened to the pitching duel that was supposed to happen between Santana and Verlander? I think if you’d ask me the pitcher I’d least expect to get blown up it would’ve been Verlander. If Kenny blows up, you blame it on coming back from the surgery; if it’s Bonderman, it’s probably in the first inning and you kind of expected it to happen; if it’s Miller, you blame it on being young and taking his lumps; if it’s Nate … well Little Nate just kinda does that sometimes.

But VERLANDER? He of the unhittable filthy stuff? And against Santana?

I guess everybody’s got to have a bad day. I just wish Polly’s second homer of the year had gone for more than keeping us from getting shut out 11-0 (as opposed to getting trounced/walloped/crushed 11-1).

So you think, Hey, the Tigers are a resilient team. They’re big on the bouncing back. They’ll win the next day, right? Wrong! It was Andrew Miller’s turn to blow up. I admit I’ve been waiting for that, like last year when the Tigers were going so unbelievably well  I was waiting for the proverbial other shoe to come crashing out of the sky on my head. At least we got a bit more hitting, jacks from Grandy, Moonshot Marcus, and His Pudgeness. My buddy Grilli was not a tremendous amount of help out of the bullpen either. Whatever crazy anti-pitching curse has been affecting the bullpen, I’m afraid they’re contagious and spreading it to the starters. Hopefully tonight being on ESPN yet again will inspire Bondo to have a breezy first (and second thru eighth or so, haha) and the rest of the Boys to score more runs than the Twinkies! I am ever so perplexed as to why we seem unable to win consistently at home, and against our own division. Yeah, it’s the toughest in baseball, but we’re the BEST TEAM in baseball. I don’t care what the Red Sox’s record is. We should be taking every single home series, no two ways about it.