Tigers vs. Cubs Game Thread June 14

[johnny2x2x]

YES!!!! Wow, the sacrifice paid off there.

 

[biggunsbob]

Yes!!!!!!

 

[coulomb]

Ajax! the man! once again!

 

[Thumb]

YES!!!

JV moves runner to scoring position and Ajax plates him.

Tigers lead!

 

[kalinecountry]

Nice, Jackson pokes it into left and mudhen races home with the run,

Tigers lead 3 - 2,

 

[kalinecountry]

low fastball sent back up the middle for a Boesch single, Jackson to second,

cubs pitcher leaves with about 100 pitches.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Time for Cabrera to hit the ball hard.

 

[tazmac]

Time for Cabrera to hit the ball hard.

Maybe when he gets off the fucking mental vacation he is on right now. Jesus has he sucked these past few games.

 

[tigermud]

boy i'll tell ya what, anytime we need a pinch hitter to lay down a bunt, we should use JV!

 

[johnny2x2x]

No one even noticed, JV's 6 inning streak is still intact. Damn Cabrera, he was knocking the cover off the ball recently, hope he's not headed towards another funk!

 

[biggunsbob]

Miguel is in a funk this series..

 

[tinselwolverine]

Time for Cabrera to hit the ball hard.

I was thinking maybe a little harder than that...

 

[johnny2x2x]

Wow, 7 and 5 pitches JV's last 2 innings.

 

[tigermud]

Time for Cabrera to hit the ball hard.

He hacked away at one off the plate and away and weakly grounded out, he's not very patient up there this series in his give away AB's mode at the moment.

 

[tomdalton22]

I bet Cabrera and Fielder are in better shape than you are, so I don't see the point of saying "athletic players".

I'm not a professional athlete. This is a slow team....and they are the two biggest offenders.

 

[johnny2x2x]

Wow, did you see the movement on that 97 mph fastball, wtf???

 

[tigermud]

Better shape or not I think I could get down to first faster than Miggy, maybe not Fielder, he actually runs pretty good for a bigman. I think I could outrun Delmon to.

 

[biggunsbob]

Insurance...

 

[biggunsbob]

Tiger fan's everywhere!!!!!

 

[kalinecountry]

He hacked away at one off the plate and away and weakly grounded out, he's not very patient up there this series in his give away AB's mode at the moment.

Cabrera isn't as patient as last year or past 2/3....not taking as many walks, I kind of think he has a bit different approach at bat in the 3 spot. Swinging at more pitches just out of the zone, or so it seems. trying to make it happen...forcing the at bat a bit more.
Maybe we got spoiled last few years, still on pace for 130 plus rbi? 30 something homeruns, last check was leading the league in multiple hit games, all that with a couple of 0 for streaks 21/22 was it and another 0 for 14 or something,
Wonder if they flipped them how many pitches Fielder would get to hit batting 3rd, with Cabrera back at cleanup?