Tigers Rolling Over

Exactly, what my team is doing right now -- Rolling over.

The Tigers won their first series after the All-Star Break, 3-2 over the Chicago White Sox & won 3 of their last 4 games -- their best 4 game stretch also since before the break; These days for my 2007 Detroit Tigers Replay that is a hot streak, LOL!

So... Maybe things are starting to look up? Nope. The Tigers in Game 1 would go on to look like the highlight reel of the Major League (The Movie) version of the Indians, where no one can make a play in the field -- Making three errors in the bottom of the 6th, to help the Los Angeles Angels go on to a six-run explosion that inning. The very next inning, two more errors (plus their first inning error) would make it, 6 errors for the night! It's been ages since I have seen so many errors, and I don't think I ever seen a messy inning as in the 5th there; Brandon Inge led the way with 2 errors.

In Game 2 of the series, we failed to score in the top of the 3rd, with bases loaded. We followed the next inning with bases loaded, and no outs -- scoring 3 runs, but we failed to capitalize off a potential big inning. Angels would answer in the bottom of the 4th, with a solo HR by Vladimir Guerrero & RBI single by Brandon Wood (who was a complete bust for the Angels). The Angels would take the lead, 4-3 in the bottom of the 5th. The Tigers' Ryan Raburn would score in the top of the 8th, on a error by Vlad in right (ball hit by Timo Perez), to tie it up. Only to watch the Angels score twice in the bottom of the 8th, on a sac fly by Jeff Mathis, and RBI double by Chone Figgins. Francisco Rodriguez closed it out for the save, despite walking two Tigers.

Dustin Moseley would mow the Tigers down for the complete game victory, 4-1; Allowing only 3 hits, and only one run (a solo HR by Magglio Ordonez, his 27th HR of the season).

The Angels outhit the Tigers 27-19 & outscored us 20-7, while the Tigers made 10 errors in the three-game sweep by Los Angeles of Anaheim.

The Tigers have basically been rolling over from everyone, and even the top of the order are not in sync; The group is hitting well for the season, but seem not to click on the same game, and if they do, it's their bullpen or fielding that would do them in.

The Tigers are fortunate to have Cleveland in idle, as they have lost a few straight themselves. So it appears art is imitating life at the moment, and that's not good for the Tigers who are trying to win the division. We are now 60-44, the same exact record in real-life 2007, but we have a 2.5 game lead on the Cleveland Indians (due to our +2 win differential in APBA vs 2007), instead of a 0.5 game lead in 2007 at this point of the season.

Now we hope to have better luck in Oakland.