Detroit Tigers, Volume 10: The Tommy Bridges edition

[Hammer]

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Well, we're up to a whopping 5 now.

[Hammer]

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1942 Philadelphia scored 394 runs in 151 games. 1972 California had 454 in 155 games.

The Tigers' worst year offensively was 1918. Cobb hit .382 that year and they still only managed to score 476. No one else hit .280 on that team. 1981 doesn't count, strike year. The two worst Tiger teams I can remember are 1996 and 2003. The 1996 team flat couldn't pitch, scoring 783 runs, but giving up 1,103. The 2003 Tigers were frightful, scoring 591 and giving up 928.

The best offensive teams the Tigers ever had were right smack in the middle of the Greenberg/Gehringer years, 1934-1937, and the 1929 Tigers. who scored 926 runs and somehow managed to finish under .500.

[bronconick]

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Jack Morris, of all ****ing people, just jinxed Zimmerman.

Did it again with Moore in the 6th today.

[Hammer]

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****. I thought Miggy had one there.

Fellas, that ball wasn't going out. Stop it.

[Hammer]

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Castellanos apparently covered 102 feet in 5.4 second to make a catch, and all of a sudden everybody's got a woody.

Folks, that's the equivalent of a 40 yard dash time of 6 seconds. Not exactly fleet of foot.

[Hammer]

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Jimenez gives up the lead. 3-run bomb to dead center.

Honestly, I'm not too made about that pitch. That was 2-iron shot on a pitch just about his shins.

[Hammer]

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4-3 final in 11.

I didn't see the game winning run, because all of a sudden the streaming decided to take a **** on this channel, and this channel only.

[Hammer]

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3-1 final.

Dustin Peterson gets his first career hit, the go-ahead double in the 9th. The offense finally did something tonight.

[JF_Gophers]

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Worst 4 words you can hear:

Buck Farmer warming up

[Hammer]

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BECKHAM!!!!

2-1, top 8

[Hammer]

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2-1 final.

Somehow we take 2 of 3 in Yankee Stadium.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Saw most of all three games here at my hotel lounge. I'm rather surprised.

[Hammer]

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The pitching isn't going to be this good all year. Or for much longer, I suspect. The Tigers have scored 12 runs in 7 games and somehow we're 4-3. I'll happily take it, but this isn't sustainable.

I'm headed to the park tomorrow to freeze my *** off for the home opener.

Maybe. Or it might be 83 at game time. It's a complete crapshoot. Knowing my luck, it's probably going to be 45 and raining sideways.

I'll give you one good guess as to what the forecast is for tomorrow.

[Hammer]

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I froze my *** off for 2.5 innings. The wind was blowing right in on me until I moved in the middle of the 3rd to the 3rd base side. Once I was there it was actually fairly mild.

Nice experience, but a pricey one. I don't know if I would make an annual thing of it.

[Hammer]

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Everything's going to hell in a handbasket here in the 7th. Norris gives up a big bomb on the first pitch of the 7th, and then Alcantara gives one up that goes about 30 feet farther. Norris came in to start the 4th after Moore tweaked a hammy to end the 3rd.

4-2 Royals, top 7.