Over forty three thousand fans -- 105 percent of capacity -- welcomed the Pretenders back to Comerica.
A good many of them remembered how to shape their lips into the word BOOOOO and let it fly.
Like in the eighth inning when, with two out and two on, V-Mart struck out on a pitch over his head. By then, however, the P's were losing 8-2 and it didn't really matter.
Or in the fifth, when the disgruntled masses let Ryan Strangeglove have it for kicking a grounder. It's become almost impossible to finish a blog post without describing a Raburnian misadventure that leaves the fan, by now wordless, even more flummoxed.
The Pale Hose batted around against Justin Verlander in the fourth, scoring four runs.No team had batted around off JV in almost two years.
Hinge started the game on the bench. Since coming off the DL fifteen games ago, he's batting .084. When he's in the lineup, as Detroit News beat writer Tom Gage observed tonight, it's NL baseball with the pitcher hitting ninth. I never considered the situation in those terms because, as much as you don't like a struggling player, you still hope he'll snap out of it and get back to his former self. Re Brandon Inge, a guy who might not hit for average, but who still represents a challenge to enemy pitchers.
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