Game 6: Rangers at Tigers
by Ian Casselberry on Apr 11, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
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PrintTexas Rangers at Detroit Tigers, Apr 11, 2009 1:05 PM EDT
Matt Harrison (0-0, -.--) vs. 
Justin Verlander (0-1, 19.64), 1:05 p.m. EST
Yesterday, in front of an Opening Day crowd, the Tigers brought out the big bats and pounded some Texas pitching. Can they keep the good times rolling today, in front of a perhaps less festive crowd (though it will surely be the first game of the season for plenty in the stands), but one no less enthusiastic? (The weather forecast says it's going to be a pleasant day at the ballpark.)
So would you have guessed that after the first five games of the season, and a full turn through the Detroit Tigers' starting rotation, that Justin Verlander was the one who turned in the stinker? Yet there it is. In every other game so far, the starting pitcher gave the Tigers a chance to win.
If he's putting too much pressure on himself to be The Guy, as Jim Leyland suggests, then maybe he'll relax a bit without the harsh glare of that very first game. Also helping him to chill out might be his career record versus Texas. In five starts against the Rangers, Verlander has a 4-1 record and 2.30 ERA.
In his rookie season, Matt Harrison went 9-3 in 15 starts last year, for the best winning percentage (.750) among the Texas pitching staff. On the road, the left-hander posted a 4-1 record and 4.70 ERA. This will be the first time he's faced the Tigers and one Mr. Miguel Cabrera.
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At last
This game is broadcasted live via ESPNAmerica here in Germany. At last, they have chosen a Tigers Game (Monday they will show the Game against the White Sox live. Happy Eastern :D ), so I can take a break from mlb.tv which really sucks the first week here (as always in the last years)
Come on JV, give us your best stuff, let those Season Opener in Toronto behind. (Would also help my Fantasy Team in our BYB Grandy League as well)
Go Tigers
Greetings from Germany. Dirk
btw
Wouldn’t it be nice to reach the 0.500 mark in the 6th Game? (remember last year it was the 80th Game )
Greetings from Germany. Dirk
I like our chances today
We tend to play well against Texas, like yesterday showed. Hopefully they saved some runs for today.
Verlander
I just traded for him in my fantasy baseball league… got him for Connor Jackson. Hoping he turns it around
All three pitches were fastballs . . .
. . . and all three were up. Not a good sign.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 1:21 PM EDT reply actions
HAHA!
Rod just said “piece of cheese” in the gameday replay. Does that count as double for those watching at home?
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 1:26 PM EDT reply actions
So, is this supposed to be our everyday lineup?
Or is it going to shift every day like it has the past week?
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 1:30 PM EDT reply actions
Great.....
the black hole of the lineup with men on base and an out……I’m not thinking we’re getting any runs here….
Proved you wrong!
Not that I wasn’t crossing my fingers.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, that's what I thought.
But I wonder what the motive is behind all of the shuffling in the lineup here lately. Maybe just Leyland trying to figure out what he’s got?
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 1:33 PM EDT reply actions
Especially against a lefty.
That’s a lot of righty power.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions
WHOA!!!
I might have to change my opinion of Everett…..maybe Thunderkitten will be a pleasant surprise this year!
Polanco batting over .320 with RISP in 2006 fluke or not?
He just hasn’t hit clutch like that since.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 1:39 PM EDT reply actions
Then he walks two guys.
Just our luck. Pitch count is already high (48).
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Wait
You get money for finishing in 2nd place even if you don’t make the playoffs? Do I understand that correctly?
after yesterday
this game isn’t very thrilling. I’m trying to play the Rod Allen drinking game, but I can’t focus (and that’s not because of the rum).
I was just talking to my dad . . .
and just as we were hanging up the place went nuts. Any reason?
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 2:03 PM EDT reply actions
Laird!
Tearing it up for the Yoopers. Added him to my fantasy team after Mauer went on the DL. He’s put together a pretty good week.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 2:06 PM EDT reply actions
“Knapp out there to give Verlander a bit of a blow”……am I the only one who found that comment a little odd?
So how many batters will JV face next inning?
Considering ole Jimmy loves to leave guys out on the mound longer than he should!
Pitching around Guillen to get to Thames . . .
Usually a solid bet, but Guillen hasn’t been lighting up the world thus far.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 2:31 PM EDT reply actions
would you rather
Walk one in…or put one across the plate for him to SMACK?
In other news . . .
Illich shells out another big contract. 11 years for Johan Franzen.
http://redwings.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=417741&cmpid=rss-beam
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 2:37 PM EDT reply actions
About a month too late.
Where was this during spring training?
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions
He took Rincon's Mojo
Since everyone is asking where the stuff that Rincon was throwing a month ago went
Hey, if Nate can give us 1 or 2 solid innings out of the pen all the time
I’ll get his little orange beard tattooed on my chest.
Can we ask for another walk?
I want Harrison’s BB rate to rival that of the D-Train from last year….
hes not sean casey
thrown out at first base form left field
by dettigionswings'stons on Apr 11, 2009 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Ha, I know he's not horrible
but he was clearly going full speed, and he just wasn’t getting anywhere very quickly. Luckily he had all day on that hit.
His thumbs all better . . .
so now he’s a star! He’ll even tell you so.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 3:04 PM EDT reply actions
Leyland loves those lefty-lefty matchups.
Theoretically, Seay could get two in a row here.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 3:15 PM EDT reply actions
It looks like he was on the ground
and someone Photoshopped him up in the air
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions
You know...
that what looks like… WOW
Elvis can levitate!!!
the Men in Black movie was right, he is an alien
Ryan Perry post-game quote
“I’m going to come in, throw a couple fastballs, and get major leaguers out. Yeah, I look like I’m 16, so what?”
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 3:23 PM EDT reply actions
Better than April in the D
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions
or at least the best team in the AL Central
Unfortunately still the fourth best in the AL East
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 11, 2009 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
There needs to be a FSN+ HD
Or does that already exist? And I just don’t have it ’cause I have WOW
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nope doesn't exist
hard to believe, 1 HD game in the first 6.
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 11, 2009 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Yikes
It angers me that if the game is on regular FSN, it isn’t always in HD.
Should be mandatory.
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Well
When you get out of college then you can bitch too :P
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions
once you go HD
yo can’t believe how bad the picture on SD was!
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 11, 2009 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions
i got hd
down here in texas. I’m in houston and for some reason all the Dallas teams are considered “in-market”.
by dettigionswings'stons on Apr 11, 2009 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Quick Tangent
Nickame for Miguel Cabrera:
MC (something)
i.e. MC Hammer.. but something better
Thoughts?
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I like where this is going
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions
MC Boom . . .
. . . goes the dynamite!
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Locating his fastball
This is a good sign
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
are we looking at a new rodney?
I liked his last appearance quite a bit too and he had a really nice spring
Contract Year Rodney
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Leyland wasn't lying . . .
. . . when Rodney has that changeup going, it goes pretty good.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions
3 K
WOOOOOOOOO
That was the easiest save that I have ever seen a Detroit Tiger reliever get in a long time!!!
Can we temper this excitement just a bit?
He did strike out three guys with a combined batting average of .256, and .200 is coming from Salty.
Not to say that this isn’t an improvement over last year . . . but I’m going to hold off a little bit.
by TennesseeYooper on Apr 11, 2009 3:40 PM EDT reply actions
Even more unlikely
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
at 4M I think he gets another chance
I wonder if there’s more going on behind his not pitching since Tuesday, maybe his arm was sore/tired.
by Kurt Mensching on Apr 11, 2009 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Texas
broadcasters were ripping on the tigers bullpen at first but at the end of the game called them “unbelievable”. Time for the other TIGER to come alive at Augusta
by dettigionswings'stons on Apr 11, 2009 3:42 PM EDT reply actions
Maybe a little obscure, but I like it.
Or even drop the MC entirely and just call him Martillo.
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with." -- Tennessee Williams
I like that too
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I think El Caballo is kinda badass
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
The Horse
It’s Carlos Lee’s nickname
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Detroit4lyfe will be having a post
based off these discussions weighing all the possibilities of a better Miggy Cabs nickname… or is a combo of the two unoriginal ones it? Make sure you check it out
I'll cite you explosivo2k2 with the Martillo... I'm kind of diggin that
by Detroit4lyfe on Apr 11, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Cool
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
El Martillo
Might be better
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by explosivo2k2 on Apr 11, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
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