One-one the count, two out, 2-2 the score and nobody on, and Brandon Inge hit a high fly into the stands. He rounded third and headed for home, having won the game, he did ...
At this point in the season, having won eight in a row and increased their lead to ten games over the White Sox, one expects heroics like this every day.
We'll stop calling him "Hinge." For now. He's still at .194, not getting any younger, and signed through next season.
Max Scherzer went seven, allowing two runs and five hits to keep the Tigers in this well-pitched, well-played game. Anthony Swarzak silenced the hot Tiger bats, permitting two runs and four hits in his six innings. Matt Capps and Alex Burnett got the game to Glenn Perkins. "If you're thinking one swing of the bat ... Perkins has allowed one home run ... count 'em, one," noted Dan Dickerson seconds before Inge's blow.
The win also drops the former Fighting Ferrets into last place, 25 games out.
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The Braves and Mets also lost. Out west, the Dodgers beat the Giants and the Yankee lost in Anaheim, seconds apart. All of that makes September 10, 2011 the first Carrie Jacobs-Bond day in major league baseball in over two years.
One can thus read the day's completed scoreboard with the serene feeling of inner peace that goes with the end of a perfect day.
Your baseball blogger has considered, if the Astros move to the American League, replacing one of the National League teams on the CJB Perfect Day list -- either the Mets or Braves, and probably the Braves -- with Osama bin Laden's favorite team, the White Sox. That would mean three teams from each league, and a more fair and equitable arrangement for everyone concerned.
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