More Milestones / The Berlin Wall

The last eight Tigers wins, including tonight's 6-5 win over the Orioles, have been by one run. First time that's ever happened. 

Max Scherzer struck out ten and walked none. That's happened only twenty times in Tigers history. Mickey Lolich did it five times. 

Miguel Cabrera homered, with two out in the sixth and Magglio on. That happens more often.

Martinez and Peralta then singled, Alex Avila plated V-Mart, and Ryan Raburn singled in Peralta and Avila. All of this excitement with two out and the bases empty, and the Tigers losing by four. 

Six straight two-out hits occurs every now and then, but never as often as it should. 

Good that it did, since the Indians won -- 3-1 over the Twins at The Prog -- to stay three games in back of the Tigers. 

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Construction of the Ber-lin WAAAAAAL began 50 years ago today.

Baseball never caught on in Germany. So no enterprising owner built a retro ballpark that incorporated The Wall into its design, as its right field border. Right field because the field, unlike Tiger Park at Comerica Yards, would be pointed in the correct direction, north-east. Germans liking order and logic, and following printed rules.

Home runs hit over The Wall would land in East Germany, in the Cold War equivalent of McCovey Cove, the land-mined Death Strip of bare earth maintained to discourage would-be escapees.

Only the bravest would scramble for those souvenirs.