Top ninth, Kosuke Fukudome on third, Jason Donald on second, score 8-7 Tigers, Matt LaPorta hit a fly to short center.
Fukudome tagged. (They're not gonna send him, are they?)
They did, and he was OWWWWWWWT at the plate! Austin Jackson getting the assist on a game-ending double play.
Forty-three thousand fans stood, as the home team exchanged high fives, and roared; a walkoff standing O for the young man from Denton, Texas who saved the game and gave the Tigers a sweep in Big Series 2.
What an ending. Usually, the team at bat gets the big bang walkoff win.
Jackson's throw, and Alex Avila's tag, also kept some Tiger pitchers out of the cornfield.
Rick Porcello couldn't hold a seven run lead. He gave up five in the fourth, right after the Tigers plated seven off Ubaldo Jiminez in a 46 pitch third inning. Duane Below gave up two hits and walked two, and allowed the sixth Tribe run. Daniel Schlereth allowed two hits and the seventh run.
Even Fernando Valverde wasn't exempt from Anthony's wrath. Papa Lead-Off Walk walked Fukudome to start the ninth, and hit Donald with an 0-2 pitch to put the go-ahead run on.
Everything worked out for the best, though; and all is well in Tigertown. The broom brigades --
-- got their sweep, the Tigers moved to a season high ten games over .500, and equaled their season high lead of 4 1-2 games over the Indians.
Everything worked out for the best, though; and all is well in Tigertown. The broom brigades --
-- got their sweep, the Tigers moved to a season high ten games over .500, and equaled their season high lead of 4 1-2 games over the Indians.
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