Poll: What was your Tigers play of the year?
by Kurt Mensching on Dec 31, 2009 12:03 PM EST
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So with that in mind, Tigers.com wants to know: What was your Detroit Tigers 2009 Play of the Year?
But they "forgot" a few top plays. So I want to know: what was your real Tigers play of the year for 2009?
Maybe you think of young Rick Porcello, all of 20 years old, stepping onto the mound in Toronto on April 9 and firing the first major-league pitch -- a strike, by the way -- of what will hopefully be a fruitful career in the MLB.
Maybe you remember an afternoon in August when Justin Verlander ceded the Orioles a five-run advantage in the first inning, but his teammates bailed him out with a 6-5 victory -- capped by Clete Thomas lifting a walkoff home run into the center field bushes.
Like reversals of fortune? When Thomas homered, the game was tied. So maybe you preferred Ryan Raburn's two-run blast against the Cubs in June. That one turned a 4-3 loss into a 5-4 victory.
Hey, there were key home runs aplenty. Remember when Aubrey Huff got off the schneid with a game-tying, three-run homer against the Blue Jays in September? How big was that during the stretch run? The Tigers walked off with the win an inning later.
There are some of us who love a good defensive gem. So maybe you see Brandon Inge sprinting across the infield, bare-handing a ball and firing it to first for the out against the Royals in July. Or maybe it's Inge's dive into the stands against the Mariners in August.
Or maybe there was another play that comes to mind. One that involved one of your favorite players doing the near-impossible. Maybe it was a play that saw you go from covering your face in dismay to getting out of your seat hooting, as a crushing, game-ending home run was snagged from over the wall.
IT IS GONE! NO IT'S NOT!
Who was it that did that?
Oh yes. Curtis Granderson.
I don't know why the MLB Advanced Media or someone at Tigers.com chose to leave Granderson's catch out of the top Tigers plays of the year options. It didn't say Top Tigers Plays of 2009 By Tigers Still With The Team after all. But you'll note no players gone from the team are featured in the highlights the Tigers will let you vote for.
So I open it up to you. What was your Tigers play of the year? If it wasn't one of my suggestions, please let us know your favorite memory in the comments!
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I picked the game-saving leap
but I’d also put Rick body-slamming Youkilis in August, and the well-circulated photo it spawned
Like you
I also picked the game saving leap. But I loved that Youk got knocked down by a kid….Detroit Tigers, No sissies allowed.
Granderson's catch
My buddies and I are driving back from a West Michigan Whitecaps game and we turn the radio on. The game is in the ninth inning, and the announcers are going crazy about something, and we just look at each other and think, “What did we miss?”
Well thanks to the power of TV (and the internet) we got plenty of replays of what exactly we missed.
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I had just taken my 4 year old stepson to the car following my father-in-laws graduation, we were waiting for everyone else, so i turned on the game a pitch or two before it happened. I couldn’t wait to get home to see it
by mich_n_trum84 on Dec 31, 2009 1:04 PM EST up reply actions
Mario's call
on the Granderson catch.
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Thank you so much for that link to the catch
I didn’t have it on this new computer and I love watching it over and over and over…
The Missed HBP on Brandon Inge in game 163
It cost the Tigers first place in the Central and the playoffs!!!
I'm still bitter about it.
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by David Tokarz on Dec 31, 2009 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
I don't even know if this is up for debate
Granderson’s catch, hands down.
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The thing that I love about the Grandy catch...
is that not only did it happen against Cleveland, it was Grady Sizemore that he robbed.
I hate Cleveland and all of their superstars.
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Good point...
…and I think that Granderson has always been a little bit like Sizemore’s ugly sister that never gets any of the props. They are similar in so many ways, but Sizemore has always had the national press in his favor because he always hit a few more dingers, stole a few more bags, and was a bigger hit with the ladies. Sweet justice for Grandy!
I chose The Grandy catch
but the most improbable was the Huff homer. I did not expect that. I expect Raburn to hit a homer rather than Aubrey
Wait
Aubrey Huff hit something in a Tigers uniform?
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I'm blatantly agreeing with the majority.
The Granderson catch. Game-saving, division rival, and off of someone who has both hit home runs like that so it wasn’t a surprise to see him really get ahold of Verlander’s pitch, and has done that to other players himself defensively.
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I picked other
primarily because I don’t get to watch or even listen to many games and I’m usually stuck following games on an updater. But, last August when the Tigers were facing the Red Sox JV stepped into the final game of the series and prevented a sweep. That performance then lead to one of the best stretches of the season finishing August strong and starting out strong in September. I was only listening on the radio but JV went 8 and was outstanding. I also remember Grandy’s bloop double against the White Sox to tie the game in the ninth in late July as a great moment (esspecially because you could just hear the life sucked out of Hawk Harrelson at that moment).
I can't believe I ate the whole thing!
by tigerfaninChicago on Jan 1, 2010 8:32 AM EST reply actions
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