tigers baseball babyyyy

as you may or may not know, i am a huge sport nut. mostly with baseball. its the one thing i can keep up in conversation with, know all the stats of *most* players, yada yada.


the tigers have gone the entire 2009 season staying in 1st place in the a.l. central division. the white sox and the twins havent knocked em down once. the w. sox got close tho a couple weeks back getting within 1/2 game trying to take over the spot and send us fishin for a wild card spot in the pennant race. but we came through with our offense and got our bats to wake up and we were at it again, now 7 games up on minnesota and 8 up on chicago. its a beautiful thing.


we have been 6-0 in the last 2 series weve had. swept cleveland and today finishing up the sweep at tampa bay. it was such a great game today because it was such a battle of pitching genius. a rookie, davis, for tampa starting late in the season 0-0 came out in 2 innings, struck out 4, gave up a yard knock to huff, then returned to strike out our last 2. he ended up fanning 9 in the game, which is awesome for a rookie especially in his major league debut, and i really cant get over that he fanned 6 in the first 7 he faced. tampa is gonna have a great pitching line up for next season with all the power pitchers they have right now, given they all stay and wont get traded.


ok enough with giving the other team a good name (even tho tampa bay is my other favorite team, gotta give em props. yes i said props)


so the TIGERSSSS won today and im givin you some awesome highlights, those of which were available to me, of course. i cant bring you the awesome line drive grab made by adam everett, our shortstop, in the 3rd inning? it was early in the game :-p BUT i can give you


*dun dun dunnnn*


BRANDON INGE and his super awesomeness that he brought with him to florida this series. so here it is folks.


so to start us off, we have aubrey huff's solo knock to get us on the board. he has, within the last 3 or 4 games, just been getting comfortable in a detroit uniform after being traded from the orioles. nice trade. hes a great bat.


and still fighting for the gold glove this year, he will never give up, inge gets a rocket to 3rd and gets the throw at 1st to end the 8th.


and here, for you is after joe madden had decided to make 4 pitching changes in one inning, the bases were loaded off of 2 walks to cabrera and thames and a base knock by ordonez... brandon inge is up, and they try to over power him. unfortunetly they made the mistake of pitchin in his happy zone. inge's grand slam. oh yeah.

and then to top it off, brandon lyon, who was iffy in the start of the season, has turned out to be STELLAR in the last 8 weeks. not letting in a run, besides one homer he let slip away. his era has fallen dramatically as well as his OBA. so here is brandon lyon to strike out zaun with the beautiful breaking ball (which has come to be his # 2 pitch) to end the game after the tigs come back from a 3-1 deficit to win 5-3 over the rays. yeah... its a beautiful thing.