Chris Getz plated this afternoon's winning run with a ninth inning single to deep short, on pitch eight of the at bat.
He drove in Mike Moustakis, who had doubled off Fernando Ben-Wah.
The key AB of the inning was Brayan Pena's grounder to the right side, that moved Moustakis from second to third.
Another excellent outing for Justin Verlander -- eight innings, two
runs, six hits, seven strikeouts -- and another no decision.
The Royals didn't play like a 7-16 team.They played like one ready for post-season. Jonathan Sanchez and four relievers kept the Tigers off the board, allowing only five hits. Of 138 pitches thrown by Royals' pitchers, the only bad one was thrown by Aaron Crow to Brennan Boesch in the seventh, who hit it for a two-run homer.
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There's a list for almost everything. The one I really want to see, the list of present and past gay major league baseball players, is one the List Generation has yet to compile.
Want to know how many current players are Jewish? You have several choices, with eight, eleven, or twelve names, depending on the source.
Your Baseball Blogger wonders: why all the lists, and why this one?
Lists of Jewish writers, artists, and musicians, to name three, serve a purpose by gathering in one place names of people who have helped define a culture and preserve its traditions.
Lists of Jewish baseball players, or players of any pro sport, might indirectly suggest to the reader that Jews are so incapable of achieving athletic excellence that, when they do, it's worth noting.
They also remind the reader that Jews are different from everyone else. Well, from a religious and cultural perspective they are, but Ernie Harwell wrote in his narrative "Baseball: A Game For All America" that the only race that matters in baseball is the race to the bag, and the only creed is the rule book. For this and lots of other obvious reasons, why should it matter who is or isn't Jewish? I don't get it.
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There's a list for almost everything. The one I really want to see, the list of present and past gay major league baseball players, is one the List Generation has yet to compile.
Want to know how many current players are Jewish? You have several choices, with eight, eleven, or twelve names, depending on the source.
Your Baseball Blogger wonders: why all the lists, and why this one?
Lists of Jewish writers, artists, and musicians, to name three, serve a purpose by gathering in one place names of people who have helped define a culture and preserve its traditions.
Lists of Jewish baseball players, or players of any pro sport, might indirectly suggest to the reader that Jews are so incapable of achieving athletic excellence that, when they do, it's worth noting.
They also remind the reader that Jews are different from everyone else. Well, from a religious and cultural perspective they are, but Ernie Harwell wrote in his narrative "Baseball: A Game For All America" that the only race that matters in baseball is the race to the bag, and the only creed is the rule book. For this and lots of other obvious reasons, why should it matter who is or isn't Jewish? I don't get it.
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