Interesting stat on Verlander:
Innings 1-3 = .254 era
Innings 4-6 = .254 era
Innings 7-9 = .162 era
Innings 1-3 = .254 era
Innings 4-6 = .254 era
Innings 7-9 = .162 era
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Another good performance by Verlander. Moreover, good pitching always seems to fire-up the Tigers bats. Elsewhere the White Sox have been "on fire" lately.
Midway through the 7th it's 7-5 Whitesox........make it 7-6 after hafner hit a homerun for cleveland.
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Brandon Inge has hit 7 HR's since coming down to Toledo (AAA) ... and is hitting .307...
After reading the fine print I noticed the fences were at 250ft. and the pitchers were being forced to throw with their opposite hand.
Seriously, I would have been happy with .260 and a 15HR year.
I'm not one to blame umpires on a loss, but the ump we got last night was wretched! The announcers were even in agreement! He missed several calls, including a tag-out at third (that would turn into a White Sox run), an interference in the base-path call (that would've resulted in an Indians run), and several dozens of balls in the dirt that were called as strikes. If anyone watched the game, they'd surely back me up on this one. It's been a LONG time since I've seen such a badly officiated game in my life. Ugh!
Tribe loses in 14 innings.
I'm not one to blame umpires on a loss, but the ump we got last night was wretched! The announcers were even in agreement! He missed several calls, including a tag-out at third (that would turn into a White Sox run), an interference in the base-path call (that would've resulted in an Indians run), and several dozens of balls in the dirt that were called as strikes. If anyone watched the game, they'd surely back me up on this one. It's been a LONG time since I've seen such a badly officiated game in my life. Ugh!
Tribe loses in 14 innings.
I'm sorry HD, I watched a lot of the game, including most of the extra innings, and I didn't see what you saw. The White Sox announcers were in agreement that the game was called fairly.
There was a strange play on a bouncer to first, where the Cleveland pitcher, in attempting to cover first base, actually got in the way of first baseman trying to tag the runner. Not sure if that's one of the things you're referring to, but the runner was called safe and none of the replays I saw were conclusive. It happens.
Sandra
I watched the entire game and can't recall a game with so many blown calls going against one team.I'm not one to blame umpires on a loss, but the ump we got last night was wretched! The announcers were even in agreement! He missed several calls, including a tag-out at third (that would turn into a White Sox run), an interference in the base-path call (that would've resulted in an Indians run), and several dozens of balls in the dirt that were called as strikes. If anyone watched the game, they'd surely back me up on this one. It's been a LONG time since I've seen such a badly officiated game in my life. Ugh!
Tribe loses in 14 innings.
The Lineup is so much better than it was at the beginning of the year and going back to last season. We took Inge out of the lineup and Rayburn is no longer an every day player. We have Martinez at DH now, Avila is hot, and now we replaced Mags with Young.
I just wish they would play Betemit pretty much every day and stop playing Kelly at third so often. Inge was only given 8 days off when healthy all season and Betemit has already been given 8 days off in his short time here.
Those bats better be alive today. Its hard to trust Penny now and it would be tough to lose a series against the Twins at home in the middle of this race.
Meh. You can take any baseball game, where there are hundreds of judgememt calls made by umpires, and pick out a few that didn't go your way. They all even out in the end.
The Sipp play is the one I was referring to, and in none of the replays did I see the 1B tag the runner. Sipp (the pitcher) was not only in the way of the first baseman trying to tag the runner...he was also in the way in a couple of the replays.
Sandra
Sandra, I know you like to argue and debate, but this one's a closed case. Trust me. And leave it at that. I don't argue about ump-ing, if ever. But this game was clearly out of control.
...not even arguing. Perhaps the Cleveland telecast showed the runner being tagged, but the White Sox telecast showed about 4-5 replays and nothing was conclusive. That's all I'm saying.
This is not the same as the Pirates being ripped off after 19 innings on a completely botched call the umpire apologizes for after he sees the replay.
Sandra
I was actually referring to a different play. Probably about the 6th or 7th run the umps cost us yesterday....
It was early in the game. A Choo “single” with Brantly on first. When Brantley was interfered with rounding second, Choo was CLEARLY cruising on his way into second and even fell over stopping himself to get back to first base (because of the Brantly collision just in front of him). Brantley was correctly awarded third, and I’m unaware of any official rules here, but Choo would have easily been on second. Instead he was on first and boom…double play ball. Inning over.
