Let's visit the DL. Six Tigers are on it. Pitchers Schlereth (60 day) and Fister, outfielders Jackson and Dirks, and catchers Avila and Laird.
In Saturday's 4-3 win, they played with one extra non-pitcher -- Ramon Santiago -- and only Don Kelly as the emergency backup catcher.
Matt Young, the Don Kelly of the future, is up from the Toledo Mud Hans to give the Detroit Mud Hens another guy on the bench.
Four fill-ins started yesterday's game: Santos (catcher), Worth (second), Kelly (left) and Berry (center). Actually, anyone they put at second can be considered a fill-in. Which explains why they're playing like the third place, soon to be fourth place, team they are. But they were that with the regulars in the lineup.
MVP and Cy Young on a last place team? It could still happen.
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In tonight's Phillies-Dodgers game, one manager (Don Mattingly), one coach (Trey Hillman), and one closer (Jonathan Papelbon) were tossed for questioning the plate umperor's inconsistent strike zone. The ump's name: D.J. Raburn. Somehow, it seems only appropriate.
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