Savor that standing O, Ryan Raburn; because it might be the last one you get at Comerica Park.
After being booed all game, he dived to snag Aaron Rowand's two-out eighth inning liner that would have plated two Giants runners and given them a one-run lead.
Carpe diem. And you too, Hinge (.197 starting the game) after tripling in two in the bottom eighth.
Rick Porcello hung in there and got the W despite hitting three batters and uncorking three bottles of Wild Pitch. "New league records," groaned the manager in "Bull Durham." No, not records, but no one had done that in almost ninety years.
When pitchers get walloped like the Tigers guys have been lately, someone has to go and, since it's easier to replace one pitching coach than a whole pitching staff, Rick Perry got the ziggy after today's game. His dismissal took some of the luster away from today's win, and the news that four Tigers -- Verlander, Valverde, Cabrera, and Alex Avila -- were named to the American League All-Star team. The first three were more or less expected. But enough fans voted early, and often, to get Avila past Russell Martin, and that means one less Yankee in the starting lineup next week at Chase Field.
Now do that again in November 2012.
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