In tonight's third inning, Miguel Cabrera singled in Boesch and Young. Not many teams fall two runs down to Justin Verlander at Comerica and end the game victorious. The Twins wouldn't be among them.
Two-out singles by V-Mart, Avila, and Peralta in the fifth produced three more runs to wrap the game up, nice and neat with a ribbon on the package, 7-1 Tigers.
At US Cellular, it seemed like the game would never end.
The White Sox and Indians traded blows like two aging boxers fighting for their careers. After nine, they were tied at seven.
In the 14th, with Tribe starter David Huff on the mound, Juan P. Air singled in Gordon Beckham for the game-winner. The walkoff win was one of five in major league baseball tonight. It moved the Pale Hose one game over .500, and to within one half game of the Indians. More importantly for us Tigers fans: it increased our lead to 3 1-2 games.
Nineteen Indians, and eleven Sox, struck out. The Sox had the winning run in scoring position in the ninth, and in every extra inning. They had 22 hits and stranded 16 runners.
And the fans ... as the game was heard here on DX WTAM, the crowd noise became a persistent swirl, louder as the game crawled through extra innings. One wonders what the ball park experience at The Cell might be like, past midnight and in the company of several thousand White Sox fans who'd been drinking Old Style ("pure brewed in God's country") for five hours.
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