Game 5: Rangers at Tigers
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 12:10 PM EDT
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PrintTexas Rangers at Detroit Tigers, Apr 10, 2009 1:05 PM EDT
Kris Benson vs. 
Armando Galarraga, 1:05 p.m. EST
Not even a 1-3 start for the Tigers can ruin the holiday feel that Opening Day gives Detroit. Well, maybe it's a little bit of a bummer. But I think people are willing to look past that for what's often an official sign of spring around here. Hopefully, the Tigers respond positively to beginning the home portion of their season, and the bats adapt nicely to their first dose of cold weather.
But the Texas Rangers come into town looking strong after sweeping the Indians at home, and demolishing that Tribe pitching staff with 29 runs in three games.
Armando Galarraga gets the nod for the home opener, as a tip of the cap from Jim Leyland for the season he put together last year. With a 13-7 record and 3.73 ERA, Galarraga was easily the Tigers' best starting pitcher. At Comerica Park last season, he posted a 5-3 record and 4.18 ERA in 13 starts.
And I'm sure Galarraga won't mind getting a chance to face the organization that gave up on him after two seasons. In one start against the Rangers last year, he got the win against his former team, giving up three runs and six hits in six innings at The Ballpark in Arlington.
Jeff Larish gets his first start of the season, batting sixth as the designated hitter.
For the Rangers, Kris Benson returns to the majors after missing the 2007 and 2008 seasons recovering from a torn rotator cuff. He last pitched with the Baltimore Orioles. In three career starts against the Tigers (two of which were in 2006), Benson has a 2-1 record and 2.38 ERA.
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Starting Lineups
TEXAS
1. Ian Kinsler 2B
2. Michael Young 3B
3. Josh Hamilton CF
4. Hank Blalock DH
5. Nelson Cruz RF
6. Marlon Byrd LF
7. Chris Davis 1B
8. Jarrod Saltalamacchia C
9. Elvis Andrus SS
DETROIT
1. Curtis Granderson CF
2. Placido Polanco 2B
3. Magglio Ordoñez RF
4. Miguel Cabrera 1B
5. Carlos Guillen LF
6. Jeff Larish DH
7. Gerald Laird C
8. Brandon Inge 3B
9. Adam Everett SS
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 12:15 PM EDT reply actions
yes
"It doesn't look like he's trying. It kinda pisses me off," "He could throw 110 if he tried. The way it explodes out of his hand is really something special." ~ B-Mac on Feliz.
by Kinslerhomer on Apr 10, 2009 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Whats the weather like up there today?
"It doesn't look like he's trying. It kinda pisses me off," "He could throw 110 if he tried. The way it explodes out of his hand is really something special." ~ B-Mac on Feliz.
Thx.
"It doesn't look like he's trying. It kinda pisses me off," "He could throw 110 if he tried. The way it explodes out of his hand is really something special." ~ B-Mac on Feliz.
by Kinslerhomer on Apr 10, 2009 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions
booing on opening day is never right
show some class, Detroiters
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions
you boo the other team, not your own
especially not during opening day festivities. We’ve become Philly. Or maybe southside chicago fans.
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Hate to break it to you....
but the 06 team overperformed. They are probably slightly underperforming so far, but with what we have, this is what we should be expecting. 06 was three years ago. This is a very different team with very different strengths and limitations.
It's not surprising
Look at the blogs. They’ve gotten blasted since the opening game. I hate the booing, but just the way it is. They are just voicing it instead of writing it.
Cloudinng up
I kept thinking how yesterday would have been the perfect Opening Day. Not a cloud in the sky, bright blue and sunny 60 degrees. Gorgeous day!
Wow....
Amazing play there by Inge.
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Web Gem!
If that’s not #1 tonight, someone else made a hell of a play!
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 1:12 PM EDT reply actions
Seriously....
how did he get that far out, that fast?
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by spotstarters on Apr 10, 2009 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Since Inge is your Tiger Ian...
Did you start clapping like the owner at the end of “for love of the game” after that play?
I bet you're wrong about that...
not to take anything away from Inge.
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by spotstarters on Apr 10, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Anna Benson....
Here’s a letter she wrote to Michael Moore. You can tell she’s a really intelligent young woman…or something.
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That's amazing
She also told reporters that if Kris ever cheated on her she would sleep with his entire team as retaliation.
Yeah...
she sounds like a class act.
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by spotstarters on Apr 10, 2009 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
How big was the pot..
that the team put together to try to get Kris to cheat? “Seriously, Kris… we need this…”
He has a great argument though
He isn’t going to get anyone hotter to cheat with…I mean, yeah, he might be a baseball player, but he wasn’t/isn’t all that good…you have to be a superstar to get the really hot chick, right?
I have the Rangers feed....
So I didn’t get to hear Ernie, BUT I also don’t HAVE to listen to April in the D 42 times this game….I’ll take it.
“and so what if my wife is 14 years older than me and was the gym teacher at my high school?”
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by spotstarters on Apr 10, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions
true story
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by spotstarters on Apr 10, 2009 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Probably more like
Please god get me out of here. I don’t want to lose the division by 20 games to the Angles again.
Well, at least we got a run……..Everett is a freaking black hole……..if he knocks something in, I’ll take this back and make him my tiger……
OT
I missed the the Indianapolis Indians opener last night secondary to work commitments, but check out the box score.
Bernstein...
did you guys just get that Bernstein lawyers commercial?
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Have you noticed...
they don’t let the one with the lazy eye talk or look at the camera anymore? Good stuff.
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by spotstarters on Apr 10, 2009 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions
you talking about Rick Bernstein? I used to write for the Michigan Daily when we were both at UM, and he was running for some class office, and he came in for an op/ed board interview….
Somehow, the word “cockeyed” made it into a description of his ideas in the endorsement editorial we ran (which actually endorsed his opponent)…granted, maybe the editors didn’t know who he was at the time, or didn’t know about his eye, or whatever, but whoever wrote it up surely should have known better….
I'd pay to see
Terrance and Phillip from southpark announce a game or two.
If I was Babcock
I would wear the fedora he had for the Winter Classic all the time. That looked bad-ass.
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Generous strike zone
according to gameday…
Very nice for Armando, especially with him keeping the ball down
Damn meetings
Bases loaded and i have a meeting? mlb.tv is going to get me fired.
nice vote of confidence from rob neyer
Management decided to bolster the defense this season, and that decision is highly defensible. I like Everett. And if the Indians don’t get it together soon, the Tigers will quickly become the default favorite in the American League Central. But those Tigers who scored almost 900 runs in 2007 and were supposed to score 1,000 runs in 2008?
Those Tigers are gone. It doesn’t mean these Tigers can’t win, though.
I like Everett.
Watched the SF/Mil game last night at the bar. It just reminded me how much I despise Edgar.
edgar is batting a little higher average right now, everett has really failed to impress me in the least.
Renteria would have done half of what Everett has done defensively this year
In the long run, Everett’s glove outweighs his lack of any hitting ability he has
watch him on grass
take that either way?
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Man, I would've loved to see Larish get a hit there
Get some confidence – not to mention driving in some runs.
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 2:05 PM EDT reply actions
yup!
sneaky wording by them. I had to look up the opponent
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions
I remember the first game, as I was there
The opponent? The Seattle Mariners, featuring young Carlos Guillen.
I don't want to watch it anymore....
(make it stop!)
It was horrible. Kid was bleeding from the nose. Cameron felt horrible. Wonder if he would have laid off the ‘roids, the kid wouldn’t have been hurt??
I was watching that game last night
that was scary…especially what with the recap of natasha richardson’s head injury/death they had going on CNN at about the same time….
Never, ever...
Bring up the block hole of suck. I still have nightmares over he who will not be named.
waynefontes.com
for his defense during the no-hitter
he’s ok by me.
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions
The scariest thing of all
Is that he actually has better batting statistics across the board career than Everett.
Rod thought so...
But instead of a straight line, Cruz took a more round about way of tracking the ball.
waynefontes.com
Benson
has really been burned by some shady D today. However, the Tigers haven’t exactly capitalized on their chances.
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just kidding.
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by spotstarters on Apr 10, 2009 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Yep, Miggy is pretty damn good.
He’s going to make a run at the Triple Crown, book it…
waynefontes.com
Even though it shackled us with
that truly awful contract albatross that is D-Train, getting Miggy was Dombrowski’s best move, bar none.
Is the bullpen...
capable of blowing a seven run lead?
That’s a serious question.
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I think
the worst case scenario bullpen is
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
'Cause she's from Boston
If any of you have seen The Soup making fun of the Boston girl, then that interview was doubly funny.
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
THAT is embarrassing.
I hope they’re drunk.
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me too
it’s less than 40 degrees out up here in the middle of april! ahhhhhh
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions
do you think the indians are watching
and saying “if the TIGERS are shutting the rangers out, how bad must we be?”
is that just for today?
or last year too?
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions
that’s still really low, but I think he pitches well for that, getting lots of ground balls.
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah
but if this whole strikeout thing he’s been doing this year is real, he’s going to stay around at 4 ERA I’d think
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Galarraga...
yeah is BABIP won’t stay that low, but the way he pitches will stay the same. He keeps the walks down and has movement on his pitches. He should be fine.
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That's why Larish made the team.
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not until Kris agrees to cheat on Anna.
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Rangers peeps say
they are trying to get him to 100 pitches. Extension of spring training, i guess….
Hey, it looks like this years Tigs
Have learned to erase the stink of a crushing loss pretty quick. Huge improvement.
John Keating is totally cruising for chicks
“Hey baby, wanna be on TV?”
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 2:46 PM EDT reply actions
You guy are probably going to crucify me for this
But I think this is the right time to put Lyon out there.
maybe one more inning
I don’t disagree that he needs to get back on the mound and show he’s not as bad as he was Tuesday. Otherwise we’ll just cringe every time he stands up.
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions
agreed
I feel somewhat safe up 7 runs against Josh Hamilton and 8 other guys
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions
OMG!
The Rangers Peeps are blasting “April in the D”
“A new hit single”!!! “Spring has Sprung”
There singing it…..NO ONE IS SAFE, NO ONE!
8Ks?!?
Wow, is this the same Galarraga?
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions
what a steal by Double D
Rangers must be crying over giving up this guy.
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions
extremely nice guy from what I’ve heard.
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Apparently they've forgotten about our bullpen...
Fangraphs has the tigers win% chance for this game at 100% right now.
OT Trivia
Name the only two active right-handed pitchers with 150 or more wins (active meaning currently on a roster and not on the disabled list, so John Smoltz doesn’t count)
hopefully we see him quite a bit this year
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions
I have to think so
with their hitting, there’s got to be a reason they don’t win more. That’s probably part of it.
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Love the braids on Madrigal
Did he lose a bet?
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 3:21 PM EDT reply actions
"He must love that hat"
Rod’s line of the day
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 3:24 PM EDT reply actions
That would be AWESOME
That would be TOTALLY AWESOME
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
it's what Jesus would have wanted
seriously, how would Jesus be anything but a Tigers fan?
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Magglio needed that one
He’d been close to knocking in some runs
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 10, 2009 3:27 PM EDT reply actions
ditto
How many years did we lock him up for?
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I said Miggy could go for 45 HR, 150 RBI in on the podcast Ian and I were on
I might have been on the low side…
waynefontes.com
tomorrow's rangers starter
had an ERA of 5.49 last year …
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m just surprised there’s been no pants jokes yet if he is
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Since high-fiving the grandy bobblehead
worked so well today, i will high-five my verlander no-hitter dvd tomorrow
hahaha
my vote for comment of the day right there
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions
that pic of Perry on his yahoo plrofile page looks so impossibly young….I fear that soon I’ll have to admit I’m getting old(er)…
and yet
he still looks older than little timmy lincecum!
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
I think it's proportionately bad
compared to the score. With a 13 run lead, it’s only vaguely annoying. With a 4 run deficit, it’s downright painful. I figure with a 25 or so run lead, it’ll be almost enjoyable.
"enjoyable"
wouldn’t go quite that far…
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
holy smokes
450+ comments – fun day today :)
All I have to say is that I’m glad I’ve got Miggy on my BYB fantasy team….
450+ isn't much...
compared to the Texas side. They’re on thread #3 or 4 of 450+ comments each. Pretty impressive.
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
honestly, I like the level we’re at…comments fly fast and furious on occasion, but usually it’s pretty chill, with a semi-regular crew…
ever try to follow a game thread on Bleed Cubbie Blue or the like? Sounds like the Rangers board is high volume, too…look away for a minute, and there’s another ten comments on there…
Wouldn’t begrudge Ian the success if he got a thousand comments a game, but…
I agree
I was just surprised at how many they had, especially for a game that started at 10am for their locals. There tend to be some nasty arguments on some of those too.
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't like throwing Perry out there
We’re up 14-1… get a guy who has struggled some work. Don’t throw a youngster out there when his attention won’t be all there because he knows we’re up 13. Get someone out there who will focus and has to pitch well.
I wondered
if it was a case of Leyland giving the kid a chance to pitch in front of a packed home park right away. I wish he’d have thrown more strikes though.
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 10, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Good point
Also, with that big of a lead maybe skip didn’t want that game to linger any longer. Make it an all around good day, throw your best stuff at them, get the game over with.
I don't mind it
let’s see how he bounces back. at least the off day was when we were up 14-1
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions
it would be
a completely meaningless RBI at the end of a blowout.
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions
definitely not
obviously Everett isn’t on steroids. But otherwise, yeah. As long as Everett has one big RBI this year, I’ll be happy.
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions
speaking of fantasy teams...
can Chris Davis do something productive? I’m going to be upset if this kid has a bad year.
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Davis is eligible at 3rd on Yahoo
so I reached for him. Couldn’t get Miggy in the 1st round.
by handsomerob1 on Apr 10, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Days like this
wash away even the worst of blown saves. Hugs Juan Rincon and Brandon Lyon I forgive ya, guys. At least until next time.
Opening Day
It was a great game for Opening Day! The weather cooperated about as much as it could in early April in Michigan.
I missed the effing grand slam! I have not been to enough games to realize that when you have Miggy coming up any time soon, you do not go with your friend to get an adult beverage from a long line.
Anyway, great start to this homestand. Let’s keep it rolling!
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