Game 155: Royals (70-86) at Tigers (71-83)
by Ian Casselberry on Sep 22, 2008 6:00 PM EDT
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Gil Meche (12-11, 4.08) vs. 
Zach Miner (8-4, 4.16)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the battle to stay out of last place in the AL Central. Has it really come to this? Oh, yes. Only two games separate the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals coming into this three-game series, which begins Detroit's final homestand of the season. Let's bring on the pain. Let's bring on the noise.
After looking as if he was burning out in his previous two starts, Zach Miner pulled himself together for his last outing, once again looking like a pitcher who could be a meaningful part of next year's starting rotation. The Tigers didn't win the game, thanks to a Fernando Rodney meltdown, but Miner did his part, holding the Rangers to two runs and five hits over 7 1/3 innings. He's been outstanding against the Royals in three starts, allowing just one run in 19 innings.
Gil Meche is coming off a start in which he allowed just two runs and six hits in seven innings against the Mariners. He's been rather inconsistent over the past month, pitching two good games, then coming back with a bad one. If Meche continues along that pattern, however, he's due for a good performance tonight. Comerica Park has been good to him, as he's 4-1 with a 3.38 ERA in 11 starts there.
The Tigers won't have Gary Sheffield in the lineup tonight, as he'll begin serving a four-game suspension for his part in the brawl with the Cleveland Indians on Friday.
Royals Review has your SB Nation opposing view for the second-to-last series of the 2008 season.
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Usually I try to answer the questions...
But did anyone catch what happened to Miguel Cabrera? Jeff Larish is in at 1B.
by Ian Casselberry on Sep 22, 2008 8:40 PM EDT reply actions
A damn shame
Miner’s pitched well enough to get a win tonight, had he gotten any run support.
by Ian Casselberry on Sep 22, 2008 9:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Yahoo! has Rapada in a Cubs hat
Really? They couldn’t have updated that by now?
by Ian Casselberry on Sep 22, 2008 9:06 PM EDT reply actions
Agree
but he just saved at least one run. So he is allowed to strike out a time or two.
Here's my suggestion for next year.
Move Guillen to DH, have Inge at third, let Ryan catch, and move Sheffield to shortstop. Yeah, that’s right. It sounds crazy, but next year when the champagne corks are a-flying, everyone will be calling it maverick.
In Triple A.
Still cannot hit his way out of a wet paper bag. I love the guy, but his offensive game sucks.
Ooh, I love the suspense on Gameday
When it says “In play, out(s)” and you don’t know if it was just one out or two. Unless, of course, you’re watching/listening to the game. Then it’s pretty easy to figure out.
I said it in the other post
but could agreeing to pay 2/3’s of Dontrelle’s salary, plus another prospect, be enough to get Chin-lung Hu from the Dodgers?
My expectation of the blogosphere this postseason
A real in-depth analysis of quantitatively… how bad has this bullpen been? We all know how bad qualitatively. The drop of sweat everytime Wallside Windows brings us a pitching change. But how bad with numbers?
Where does it rank all time? Top twenty? Top ten? Top one? How would the team have performed with a league average ‘pen? Take the bullpen from a good team and put it onto the Tigers, what would that look like? Just for fun, take a terrible offence and give it the Tigers’ bullpen. Yikes. Do the stats do the ’pen justice? Were they mismanaged or is it just bereft of any real big league pitchers?
Honestly...
I am just looking forward to not having to hear the names Gary Glover and Clay Rapada, at least until February because I am not sure we will find anyone to take their roster spot.
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