They keep stats for everything now, and records that no one knew existed are being broken.
Yet no one knows if three straight games delayed by rain for over an hour is a record.
Over thirty three thousand sheeple entered Comerica this afternoon, and waited through 83 minutes of rain before pitch one was thrown. "Best fans in the world," says Jim Price. They have to be the best, or the most gullible, to come out in those numbers, with rain predicted, to watch an ordinary team play a very ordinary (40-42) brand of baseball.
Rick Porcello's line was anything but ordinary: 3.2 innings, 12 hits, 3 runs. The Twins helping him by having three runners thrown out at the plate, two on hits and one on a busted squeeze play.
But he left losing only 3-1, when this game had the shape and form of one in which good things eventually happen.
Enter Darin Downs, the rookie Tiger hurler appearing in his second major league game. He's the young man who three years ago was hit in the head by a line drive, his baseball career and life in jeopardy.
Downs pitched three scoreless innings allowed one hit, and struck out five. He got the game to the setup men, just in time for more good things.
In the eighth, Prince Fielder homered with two on. Delmon Young followed with a homer via video review. Earlier in the game, he drew his ninth walk of the season, in 283 at bats. All signs of life undocumented in the recorded history of man since the first Easter morning.
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