Two Firsts

With one out in the fourth, Phil Coke hurt his ankle covering first, and had to come out. 


Enter top pitching prospect Charlie Furbush, fresh off the freeway from Toledo. 


The big southpaw from South Portland, Maine held the Rays scoreless over three and two-thirds innings, and got the W in his first major league game. Isn't that cool, to read 0.00 in the box score, in the last column of pitching stats following a Tiger hurler's name? Indeed it is. 


And Andy Dirks hit his first major league homer, a solo shot in the fifth. 


In the Tigers' four run eighth, V-Mart and J-Per each drove in two. 


J-Val pitched the ninth, and brought back memories of F-Rod in 2009: two easy outs, then walk, single, single, wild pitch, walk. The game ended only when M-Cab snagged J-Dam's liner. 


Total the letters you don't type by doing that, and in a single post you could save as much as one line of text. 


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At the Prog tonight, two former Tigers made the difference in the Tribe's win over the Red Sox. 


Jack Hannahan singled to lead off the eighth. Madam I'm Adam Everett ran for him. He scored on a Michael Brantley single that tied the game at two. Asdrubal Cabrera -- him again? -- doubled in Brantley. 


But who ended the game by hitting into a double play? Arguably the fastest guy in the American League, Carl Crawford. 


Special things? Yes, every night. It's always something. Across the lake, however, the something is usually good.