Para-Durbs: Lost

The long and short of this game is that Chad Durbin pitched well enough to win, but made two bad pitches that cost him. Well, that and that the Tiger bats apparently haven't arrived from Arlington yet. I'm not sure if Jorge Sosa had some crazy shit out there or what, but he took the Tigers' offense out of the game early and often.

A lot of Tigers watching strikeouts today, the main offender being Carlos Guillen. Coming up in the sixth inning with Magglio on second and a chance to get the Tigs on the board, he was called out for the second time. Where I'm from, you just don't go down looking when your team is being dominated by a superior pitcher and you have a chance to tie the game. But maybe that's just me.

Big crowd today, but a lackluster cheering effort, in my humble opinion, on our part. Durbin should have been getting standing ovations every time he left the field for the work he was doing, but no one really seemed to notice or care all that much. When Durbs finally did leave the game in the ninth, there was a smattering of people standing, but not quite the show that he deserved after the way he pitched. This kind of thing would have never happened in Boston or New York.