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The Bonine Supremacy: Tigers 7, Rockies 1

A few players could've gotten the Golden Tiger Claw for their performance in tonight's series-opening win over the Rockies, so I put it to the BYB Brigade in the GameThread.  Who should be the headliner?  Eddie Bonine threw a great game.  Curtis Granderson had four hits, including two triples.  And Clete Thomas went 3-for-3.

I'm not sure how much of a dilemma it ultimately was, but Matt posed too convincing an argument:

A 6 year minor leaguer, making his third career start, just held a team that went to the World Series last year to 1 run in 8 innings.

Well played, sir.  Well played.  Besides, I've been dying to use Bonine in a Jason Bourne pun ever since he was called up to Detroit.  (I know, it's a stretch.  "Bonine" doesn't rhyme with "Bourne."  But both names are six letters, and begin with "b" while ending with "e."  It works for me.)  Bonine was fantastic tonight, giving up just five hits to the Rockies over eight innings, and getting it done with just 99 pitches (69 of them for strikes).  Had Joel Zumaya not needed the work (and perhaps a confidence boost), maybe Bonine would've finished this one off. 

It was also pointed out in the GameThread that Bonine has done this against three NL West teams, so maybe we shouldn't get too crazy about Bonine solving the Tigers' fifth starter problems.  But for right now, he's doing the job.  And doing it very well.  Throwing strikes, keeping the ball down, and not walking any batters is a fine way to get through life, son.

Grandyland!

But we can't get through this recap without talking about Granderson's night, as well.  It wasn't very long ago when he was fighting his way through a horrible slump.  But it certainly feels like a long time ago.  Maybe 15 games ago?  Grandy extended his hitting streak to 15 games tonight, with a 4-for-5 night and brought the same jolt he supplied last year by smoking balls into the gap and blazing around the bases for two stand-up triples.  Over those 15 games, Granderson is hitting .443 (27-for-61).  He's 8-for-10 in the last two days.

Roll Call

I don't know about you, but it's felt like a long week, so I was happy to see this one end before 10 p.m.  Thanks to ThaWalrus9, pfuhrmeister, JIMDALE, rock n rye, Tony K, wepri31, miggy4mvp, tplants, and ReichardZ (Welcome!) for spending their Friday night watching the Tigers continue their dominance over the National League.

Anyone feel like reaching the .500 mark tomorrow?

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mentioned this in my recap but...

If you asked me back in March who Eddie Bonine and Clete Thomas were, I would have guessed they were involved in NASCAR somehow

http://www.fromthecopa.blogspot.com/

by rock n rye on Jun 27, 2008 10:35 PM EDT   0 recs

If you haven't been reading From the CoPa's recaps...

Check them out. His choice of photos is hilarious! Besides the NASCAR reference for tonight’s game, rock n rye used a Run DMC reference for yesterday’s win that I wish I’d have thought of first.

by Ian Casselberry on Jun 28, 2008 12:20 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Wow

I wish I had waited to vote on that poll, because I certainly can’t see what I was thinking now by not picking Eddie Bonine. He pitched great today.

by syratiger on Jun 28, 2008 12:09 AM EDT   0 recs

Wedding plans

got in the way last night, but I was able to throw some charm on the waiters who found me a tellie to see the last three innings…Grandy is coming alive!

by Zappatista on Jun 28, 2008 12:12 PM EDT   0 recs

This wasn't during YOUR wedding, I hope

Not that there’d be anything wrong with that. I mean, it’d be YOUR wedding so you should be able to do whatever YOU want.

by Ian Casselberry on Jun 28, 2008 2:38 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Gotta be honest

Before the season, reaching .500 on June 28th wouldn’t have seen like much of an accomplishment. But today, I think it’ll be a heck of a feat.

by ThaWalrus9 on Jun 28, 2008 3:38 PM EDT   0 recs

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