Seven runners left on base.
0-4 with RISP.
Three GIDP, all inning-ending.
One baserunning gaffe.
Mega-squander of this outing from Galarraga: 7 IP, 5 H, 1 RUN (earned), 7 K, 1 BB.
Single, walk, TRIPLE in the 8th to surrender the lead we were clinging to by a strand of silken spider thread.
Long ball in the ninth, after we tied up the game in the bottom of the 8th.
Read enough yet?
Oh, seeing Carlos Guillen in the cages today gave me a glimmer of hope that our offense could have a pick-me-up coming, but how long before he makes sure he's able to "partipate in baseball activities" pain-free, gets his timing back, completes a rehab assignment, is ready to contribute.......well. according to Tigers.com, it's perhaps as soon as the end of this very month.
I did get two giggles from today's game.
In the top of the 4th, Willie Bloomquist tried to stretch a single and Raburn rifled the throw in to Polanco, who bobbled, but Bloomquist overslid the base, and Polanco got a hold of the ball and put the tag on for the out (Bloomquist may have been safe, but who am I to question an umpire?). The replay showed Galarraga barking something and generally going crazy trying to speak the out into existence as the circus played out. It was great comedy. I only wish I knew what he was saying out there.
In the bottom of the ninth, Gerald Laird singled to left. DeJesus stumbled, tumbled and tottered around before getting the ball in. I think he was just charging hard to try to make a play on the ball, so when it fell in, it was difficult to field. He was smiling sheepishly as he went back to left field. It gave me a little anger-diffusing laugh after the folly of our pitching in the 8th and 9th.
What angered me most, is that we need to win some of these close games, AND we're facing Greinke on Wednesday. Argh/sigh/groan/whimper/sniff.
I'll be at the CoPa tomorrow, and that is surely all the team needs to know to generate the will to win.
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This one's a tough call. It's pretty much par for the course when the Tigers face Meche. It always seems like he gives up a bunch of baserunners, but not a lot of runs. The Tigers certainly were grinding out their at-bats, but to no success. And there were some balls hit hard right at Royals defenders, but most of those came from the bottom of the order. The top of the order needs to get going.
But it was a beautiful pitching performance by Galarraga. Definitely a welcome sight. I loved it.
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