A couple of weeks ago we went to Comerica Park on a rainy Saturday night to watch our beloved sucky team, the Detroit Tigers, play the defending national League champion Colorado Rockies. Well, they suck against AL teams, which is unfortunate as we belong to the AL, but usually rock against NL teams!
After a great meal at Cheli's Chili Bar, we found our infield box seats, and hoped like heck it would not storm! We were under a severe thunderstorm watch the entire night...
Justin Verlander was the starting pitcher that night. Something is going on with him this season, and no one seems to quite know what it is. The kid is still pitching well enough to win most of his starts - many of his losses have come when the team did not give him any run support, and he cannot be blamed for them. His record is much worse than his actual performance says it should be. All that said, something is still off with him. While he is letting very few runs score in the games he pitches, he is throwing way too many pitches, and usually cannot get beyond the sixth or at most seventh inning. The game we saw was one of those games. He did a good job in letting few runs in, but threw a ton of pitches.
And he should have been the winning pitcher - except that out closer, Todd Jones, blew the save.
Luckily, Cabrera actually earned some of his huge salary that night, and won it in the bottom of the ninth inning with a walk off hit for the Tigers.
Some highlights and lowlights:
Our former Dark Lord of the Sith, Jason Grilli, pitched for the Rockies for one lights out inning. He rarely pitched like that for our team - he was a terrible pitcher for us - and was roundly booed for his effort.
One of the people sitting in front of us works for the Rockies, and was wearing his NL championship ring. I have never seen such a huge hunk of precious metals and diamonds on a human hand in my life! LOL!!!!
The rain held off until the ninth inning, and the heavy rain held off until we were driving home on the freeway.
One of the fireworks misfired and slammed into the windows of the high cost luxury restaurant in the stadium!
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