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Message #188 of 252  *NEW* To :   All From :   The Olde English Ds   Subject :   Game 44: Detroit Tigers 8 Kansas City Royals 0 Date :   5/23/06, 6:19am Verlandermania!!!!! Justin Verlander may be the biggest thing to hit Detroit since the automobile. At the least he is the most exciting rookie pitcher the Tiger have had since Mark “The Bird” Fidrich was talking to the ball. Verlander lets the ball do the talking after it leaves his hand. Verlander pitched his first career, and I’ll go out on a limb and say it won’t be his last, complete game shutout. Granted it was against the Royals, but Verlander threw a 99 mph fastball in the ninth inning to strike out Mientkiewicz. Not many guys can throw 99 mph and even few can do so in the ninth after 100+ pitches. Verlander is showing he is unlike most pitchers. He showed great control walking only one while striking out seven and scattering five hits. The rookie fireballer won his sixth game of the year and lowered his ERA to 2.70 on the year. I am going to need to halt my rookie of the year campaign for Verlander and begin to focus on the All-Star game in Pittsburgh. The Tigers offense battered around Jeremy Affeldt early and often. They used the long ball to score five runs in the second. Brandon Inge started things with a two run shot his tenth on the year. Curtis Granderson broke it open with his eighth home run a three run blast to left. The game was pretty much over at that point. Detroit hammered out 14 hits including three more for Magglio Ordonez who is now hitting .325. His two RBI give him 31 for the year and he is looking like the RBI machine he was prior to injury. Infante also had three hits and Marcus Thames had a pair. All of the Tigers had at least one hit on the evening. Fewer than 10,000 people in KC witnessed the Tigers 30th victory in only the 44th game of the year. Detroit maintains their lead atop the AL Central. Kenny Rogers goes for victory number eight tonight. *** OEs 3 Stars of the Game *** #3 Magglio Ordonez – 3-5 with a run scored and 2 RBI #2 Curtis Granderson – 1-4 with a run scored, 1 BB, a HR and 3 RBI #1 Justin Verlander – Win (6), 9 IP, 5 Hs, 0 Rs, 1 BB, 7 Ks, 2.70 ERA On Tap – Game 45 (30-14) @ Kansas City Royals (10-32) May 23rd, 8:10 ET Kenny Rogers (7-2, 2.91) v. Runelvys Hernandez (1-3, 6.75) -------------------------------------------------------- Go Tigers!!! -------------------------------------------------------- • Previous Topic • Next Topic • Reply to Msg #188 • Start New Topic • Back to Topics 4057 reads This message has been added to these BGEEKS Blogs: The Olde English Ds's Blog

Message #194 of 252  *NEW* To :   The Olde English Ds's Blog Thread From :   rmayer78   Subject :   Game 44: Detroit Tigers 8 Kansas City Royals 0 Date :   5/24/06, 8:50am Verlander is sweet. Where's Bonderman now? He's been demoted to the third most promising pitcher on the Tigers now behind Verlander and Zumaya. He better start performing! Anyway, the tigs seem set on starters for a long time now. They still have large amounts of talent in the farm system and Maroth and Robertson. It's good to see Maggs returning to his old form, isn't it?! And Shelton is heating back up. All we need now is for Pudge to stop swinging at balls out of the strike zone! He should have at least twice the number of walks that he has. Dmitris been put on the DL again too. It'll be interesting to see if Thames takes advantage of it. • Previous Topic • Next Topic • Reply to Msg #194 • Start New Topic • Back to Topics 4105 reads

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