Start spreading… the brooms.
I’ll be here all night.
A fantastic game, capped by San Francisco Cruceta showing up and pitching a flawless inning. Wait, after everything is said and done, Cruceta takes the mound in the ninth and promptly walked the first batter. Oh well.
First sweep in new york (3 game series) in 42 years. Powered by.. Ramon Santiago. And that big name off-season acquisition dude. And Magglio. Robertson gets the win…… boy he’s hard to get excited about. I’m really not a fan of walking the first batter of the game. Zach Miner got the call to warm up… four batters into the first inning (thanks WXYT!). That has to be a non-injury record.
The bullpen had another outstanding outing. Even more good news coming from the DL.
Peter Gammons had a piece on ‘baseball tonight’, discussing how Mariano Rivera is even more unhittable with an offspeed pitch he picked up this year. Detroit found an excellent way to combat this pitch — take an early lead and never let up.
Steve Scott:
My analysis… you are starting to hit your stride too Brunn. Good stuff from the 1st and I like some of the recent call-outs and call-ins. I am pretty much just an average (in terms of knowledge) baseball fan, but the Tiger’s bullpen still scares me. I know they have been clamping down the last week and a half or so, but still get the feeling they can get rocked at anytime. Will definitely be “fun” watching that development over the season. Also, post a nice full size picture of yourself (keep it clean of course.) I am going to try to hit a game soon and am going to make a miniature foam cut-out of you and take pictures of you at the game.
Sorry folks, like I said, I cannot provide many insites here… just keeping tabs.
2 May 2008, 6:03 am