The Singles Club / Rabbits

Ten of the Tigers' twelve hits were singles. They still count, and were enough to give the hometown crew a 6-3 win over the now .500 defending world champ Cardinals.

Cardinal starter Lance Lynn, the National League's first ten-game winner of 2012,  had his roughest outing, allowing nine hits and five runs in five innings.

Charlie Brown was a late scratch, and Phil Coke got the save, his first of the season. He did so by -- attention, all current and future Tiger closers -- getting them out one-two-three in the ninth.

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Maggie is the real linguist in the house. I know what I know from three semesters of college French, and from listening to French covers of Beatles songs. 

She tells me that the Italian word for a rabbit or hare is "coniglio." From the Latin "cuniculus," a tunnel or burrow.

Using the Italian I've learned from watching Godfather movies, a "conigliaro" might be a man who raises rabbits. 

We haven't forgotten Tony C in the second floor baseball bunker. The Bryce Harper of the 1960s.