Schadenfreude

A handy German word for taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune.(English doesn't have a single word for all that.) 

Nelson Cruz his six homers off Tiger pitching in last season's six game ALCS, and threw out a runner at the plate to snuff out a Tiger rally. 

Tonight, he dived  five feet too soon for an Austin Jackson liner. The ball skipped past him and, by the time it was retrieved and thrown in, Jackson had circled the bases for an inside the park homer. 

You never have too many runs in Arlington, and Jackson's add-on homer gave the Tigers a four lead. Only a grand slam ahead, but a lead nonetheless. 

Dotel and Val Verde made it stand up, and the Tigers 6-2 winners.

Max Scherzer survived another start. Six innings, only two runs but eight hits and 112 pitches -- and, per the script of his unusual statistical season, nine strikeouts. 

Prince Fielder got him the lead in the sixth, with a three run homer into the Arlington yard's Tiger Stadium seats. Each time the blogger sees them, he wonders: why don't we have Tiger Stadium seats? They could have done that for Comerica ... but no; a nice photo-op view, of the empty buildings in downtown Detroit, was more important.