Two Out Runs

All seven runners plated by the Tigers tonight scored with two out.

And -- mirable dictu -- the rally that yielded four runs in the second started with a Rugburn infield single. 

Brennan Boesch, now experiencing the Terry McMillan Effect -- getting one's groove back -- doubled and singled in three at bats.

In eight innings, Doug Fister allowed two hits and one walk while striking out ten. A work of art. You could frame it and hang it in the museum. Then Boom Boom Benoit would come by and scrawl his name in the bottom corner with a Sharpie. Mike Trout tripled off BBB in the ninth, a blast that would have been yet another home run anywhere but Comerica. 

Our team won, though, and the win moves the Tigers one half game ahead of the Indians, Orioles, and Athletics, and one ahead of the Red Sox and D-Rays, in the race for the second AL wild-card spot. Six would-be bridesmaids, but only one dress.