Tigers vs. cubs Game Thread June 13

[kalinecountry]

Tigers lineup :
AJax CF
Boesch RF
Cabrera 3B
Fielder 1B
D. Young LF
Peralta SS
Laird C
Santiago 2B
Porcello P

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_06_13_detmlb_chnmlb_1&mode=gameday&c_id=det
Gameday from mlb.com

http://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2012/CHN201206130.shtml
Tigers vs. cubs Game Preview.
from Baseball Reference

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/g...1&mode=preview&vkey=preview_web_away&c_id=det
Inconsistent Porcello faces Cubs at Wrigley.
from the Tigers official site
It isn't very often the Tigers official site will use such words as inconsistent.
7 weeks? to the trade deadline.

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/preview?gameId=320613116&teams=detroit-tigers-vs-chicago-cubs
Tigers vs. cubs Game Preview.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/29966/rick-porcello
Porcello vs. cubs. small sample 3 batters.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/28528/matt-garza
Tigers hitters vs. garza.
from espn

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2012/6/13/3081903/2012-game-62-preview-detroit-tigers-at-chicago-cubs
Tigers vs. cubs Game Preview.
from blessyouboystigersblog

 

[Mitchrapp]

Prediction we win 9-2.

 

[spockmaster]

isnt the last time we faced garza was when he no-hit us?

 

[Mitchrapp]

When did he no-hit us?

 

[byco42]

Peralta better atone for his cinder-block-heaving exhibition of last night with a 3/4 and 5 RBIs.

 

[spockmaster]

when he was with tampa a few years ago.

 

[gotime909]

isnt the last time we faced garza was when he no-hit us?

We beat him a few weeks later, but he did no hit us.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=300726130

 

[biggunsbob]

Everybody sing!!!!!!

 

[Mitchrapp]

I've seen people mention 1st pitch swinging and it "starts with the big guys" - someone said that last night. Miguel 31 PA first pitch swinging this season, .400 .419 .767 1.186. Impressive so Miguel can swing anytime he damn well wants ;-)

 

[tigermud]

I've seen people mention 1st pitch swinging and it "starts with the big guys" - someone said that last night. Miguel 31 PA first pitch swinging this season, .400 .419 .767 1.186. Impressive so Miguel can swing anytime he damn well wants ;-)

He tends to get a little over aggressive at times but all in all yes he can swing whenever he damn well pleases!

 

[tigermud]

Can we beat the damn cubs tonight please? Thank you!

 

[Thumb]

I've seen people mention 1st pitch swinging and it "starts with the big guys" - someone said that last night. Miguel 31 PA first pitch swinging this season, .400 .419 .767 1.186. Impressive so Miguel can swing anytime he damn well wants ;-)

The simple fact is often times the best pitch to hit is the first one.

Every pitcher wants to start off 0-1 in the count, not 1-0, so you usually get some kind of plain vanilla pitch, not always, but usually.

So in many cases swinging at the first pitch can be a good thing, especially for guys like Cabrera who are great hitters.

But in many cases it's also bad, how many times have we given the opposing pitcher a 6-8 pitch inning because we go up and hack right away? and then have a pitcher have such a low pitch count that we actually help their team out by resting their bullpen.

All that said, I'd still rather everyone, Cabrera included try to make their pitchers work at least as hard as ours have to.

And Delmon is just a joke, it's okay to swing at the first one once in a while, but 90% of the time is just dumb, nobody throws him a decent first pitch now because they know he'll go after it even if it's junk.

 

[lonesometiger]

Can we beat the damn cubs tonight please? Thank you!

ESPN has the Cubs 59% to Tigers 41%. Last night game was Cubs was 53% to Tigers 47% so AU, odds R against the Tigers! Tigers need a second baseman!

 

[tinselwolverine]

So are the Tigers gonna suck just as bad again tonight?

 

[grandy]

So are the Tigers gonna suck just as bad again tonight?

Depends on how many balls are hit in the infield.

 

[lonesometiger]

Depends on how many balls are hit in the infield.

ouch

 

[kalinecountry]

Looked like Cabrera has some sort of wrap on his right hand/thumb in the dugout??

 

[tigermud]

LOL the negativity has already started before the game has even begun. See what you've done to us all tigers!!

 

[tigermud]

And the K's just keep on piling up for the bats.

all three hitters in the 1st were down 0-2

0-2

0-2
0-2
0-2

k's the side. Garza No hit us again tonight?

 

[kalinecountry]

Jackson k's swinging,

Boesch swinging at 3 pitches out of the k zone, 1 and 2, make it 4, er I mean 5 and k's,

Cabrera wearing his batting gloves so the black velcro wrap is under it or off, 2 and 2, fouled back, swings and misses a slider by a foot,

garza strikes out the side with 20 pitches.