Striekouts To The Max

Max Scherzer may have forgotten that, these days, it takes a no-hitter to win. Even fifteen strikeouts in seven innings won't get it done.

He left this afternoon's game having whiffed fifteen Pirates, all on swinging third strikes, losing 2-1. 

In the bottom half of that frame, Delmon Young singled in Prince Fielder, and Alex Avila singled in Peralta and Young.

Dotel and Coke held the lead, but you can't have a Tiger ninth inning without something happening. The Pirates manufactured a run, and had the tying run, Nate McLouth, up. McLouth struck out, the seventeenth Buc to fan this afternoon, and a 4-3 win it was.