Tigers vs. redsox Game Thread May 31

[kalinecountry]

Tigers lineup :
Berry CF
Boesch RF
Cabrera 3B
Fielder 1B
Young DH
Avila C
Peralta SS
Kelly LF
Worth 2B
Scherzer p

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_05_31_detmlb_bosmlb_1&mode=gameday&c_id=det
Gameday.
also, MLB TV's free game of the day is Tigers.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2012/BOS201205310.shtml
Tigers Game Preview. Scherzer's last 3 of last 4 games pitched vs. boston not good.
from Baseball reference

Dirks' achilles is barking, still day to day, so Boesch bats second,
Max Scherzer dominates RHH. So Sox have 7 LHH in lineup, Middlebrooks sits, Podsednik leads off.
Which Tiger hitter is that pos beckett going to hit tonight?

The ailing Detroit Tigers send Max Scherzer to the mound tonight, hoping to salvage a victory in the finale of a four-game series against the Boston Red Sox and avoid slipping five games under
.500 for the first time this season.

Andy Dirks won't play because of an Achilles' injury that is akin to a stone bruise, manager Jim Leyland said.
Additionally, an MRI on pitcher Doug Fister, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday, retroactive to Monday, “showed something,” Leyland said. Tigers trainer Kevin Rand is scheduled to update Fister's condition at 5:30 p.m.
Scherzer (4-3, 5.67) has won his last three decisions and the Tigers have won the last four games he started. Some of that is fortuitous timing: Of the five times the Tigers have scored double-digit runs this season, three occurred when Scherzer was pitching. Scherzer is 0-2 with a 11.81 ERA in four career starts against the Red Sox.
Boston starts Josh Beckett (4-4, 4.15), who has had some success against the Tigers, but that was before Prince Fielder arrived in Detroit. Fielder is 3-for-6 lifetime, with three home runs, against the Boston right-hander.

 

[cmlfactor]

When does football preseason start?

 

[Mitchrapp]

I hope the Lions aren't this underwhelming.

 

[grandy]

When does football preseason start?

When Raburn starts hitting above the Mendoza Line.

 

[grandy]

I hope the Lions aren't this underwhelming.

The Lions are already this underwhelming, luckily it's not on the field.

 

[27tigers]

Tigers need a big game from Scherzer, although I'm not confident, and need the offense to get after it early. I hate Boesch at 2 and Young at 5, but I guess there isn't anything else you can do with this assortment of players.

I think a sweep would be devastating to this team.

 

[biggunsbob]

Come Tigers Win one for my dad..... He turned 84 today and he wants a birthday victory!!!!

 

[grandy]

Come Tigers Win one for my dad..... He turned 84 today and he wants a birthday victory!!!!

Tell him happy birthday...and I hope I get my birthday victory today.

 

[kalinecountry]

Happy Birthdays to all, go Tigers.

 

[tazmac]

And the "fuck you Tigers" by the umps begins in the first inning. Nice.

 

[xer0]

these are some of the worst umps i've ever seen in this series

already screwed boesch who should have been safe at 1st, called out

 

[jas5lf]

Fuck this Nava douchebag too...

 

[biggunsbob]

And the "fuck you Tigers" by the umps begins in the first inning. Nice.

Just another game and another bad call by a umpire verses the Tigers!!!!
Pretty frustrating.

 

[mjsb2]

Fuck this Nava douchebag too...

Where the fuck did this hack come from?

 

[jas5lf]

Where the fuck did this hack come from?

There seems to be one every series this season who absolutely murders our pitching.

 

[mhughes0021]

ud think ortiz was frikken babe ruth the way we pitched him....worked out somehow.

 

[jas5lf]

What do ya know, the Red Sox disagree with a call. *smh*

 

[jas5lf]

Brookens tossed after the blown call on Boesch. This crew is a joke.

 

[grandy]

Looks like some of the coaches are about as frustrated as we are about the umps

 

[Thumb]

Eat shit Youk.