Well the series with the Tribe is now over. Tiger killer O Cab broke up JV's bid for his 2nd No No of the season with 5 outs to go in the game, but if you ask me the Tigs got something more important...the "W". That allowed our boys to take a 1 game lead into Wednesday's game with Penny on the hill against Fausto.
I didn't see all of the 2nd game of the set tuned in in the 5th, but if the boxscore is any indication of how it went, the Tigs let him off the hook early and often. The thing that bothered me the most about the loss in Wednesday's game was the mental error that took place on the winning run. With Furbush the LHP on the hill and a base open and 2 outs why in the world are you even pitching to O Cab (who like I said earlier is a Tiger Killer)? Tribe had Hannahan and Sizemore up as the next 2 scheduled batters. Just didn't make any sense to me, I don't know if that was JL's call or Avila's, but none the less O Cab did what he has done to us over the years...drive in big runs.
Today's game looked early like it was going to be a longggggggg day on Woodward Ave. A sweet throwing error by Raburn (is anybody surprised?) and a few poorly located pitches later and it was 2-0 before you could get 1/2 way done your 1st overpriced beer of the game! Thankfully for the Boys Mitch Talbot was just as bad..Long story short Tigs win 6-2 and retake sole possession of 1st heading out West to Col.
I had been an advocate of Interleague play for years now. It lets you see some new teams and I think it brings some excitement seeing the faces of the Sr. Circuit, and lets face it we all love the Tigs and divisional games but seeing Billy Butlers Ugly Mug 18 or 19 times a year gets a little redundant! This year however I'm torn. As our Beloved Tigs are probably just settling into Col now, the biggest task Jimmy has to be thinking about is how he is going to get both Avila and VMart into the lineup for 4/6 games on the road. Both Avila and VMart are just RAKING right now, and VMart is the protection that Miggy has needed for the last year+ . Is it a coincidence that the 7 game losing streak was while he was on the shelf, you tell me!
I've read many opinions on how they should go about doing this, they range from putting Miggy at 3B,V Mart at 1B and Avila at C to having Miggy back in LF. I can assure you that if you put the Big Fella anywhere but 1B it will be an absolute TRAIN WRECK...worse than Raburn anywhere, and worse than Roberto Luongo's "Goaltending" in games 6 & 7!!! My theory...Avila at 3B, Miggy at 1B and V Mart at C. Avila was a 3B at College so the position isn't foreign to him....I don't know if I'd do it tomorrow with Ricky and his nasty sinker on the bump though!
One last thing before I go get my butt kicked in another game of "The Show', to all the people that have been calling for Mags to be cut since he's come off the DL...It's been 3 games..and he's already hit more hard hit line drives in these 3 games then he did in the 1st 6 weeks of the season...they just haven't found any holes yet...you don't hit .300 for a career by accident folks! I'll be working away at a Community function tomorrow night so I won't get to see the game 1st hand...THANK JEBUS for my Iphone! Let's hope that the Tigs can continue to take these series and let's jump on the Pirates bandwagon for the next 3 games!
Go Tigs!
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