Offical 2011 Detroit Tigers Chat Thread

[gladdyontherise]

Tonights lineup:

1. Austin Jackson CF
2. Scott Sizemore 2B
3. Magglio Ordonez DH
4. Miguel Cabrera 1B
5. Ryan Raburn LF
6. Jhonny Peralta SS
7. Casper Wells RF
8. Alex Avila C
9. Brandon Inge 3B

I really wanted to see Boesch play since i'll be there today :(

Atleast Kelly isn't starting though I suppose..the automatic groundout Ordonez plays again though, and looks like VMart will return tommorow!

I'm begging for a win tonight though

[gladdyontherise]

Nice win tonight! Was at the game, it was freezing cold, but well worth it! Jackson had a nice game, Sizemore started his 2011 season off great, heck even Ordonez got a couple hits, probably as many tonight as he had in the last two weeks!

Best news of all, VMart comes back tommorow, Boesch moves up to 3rd in the lineup and Ordonez goes down, hopefully Avila moves up to 6th..

Penny pitched great as well, lets see if the Tigers can win these last two..Scherzer vs Garcia tommorow

[gladdyontherise]

Tonight's lineup

1. Austin Jackson CF
2. Scott Sizemore 2B
3. Brennan Boesch LF
4. Miguel Cabrera 1B
5. Victor Martinez DH
6. Magglio Ordonez RF
7. Jhonny Peralta SS
8. Alex Avila C
9. Brandon Inge 3B

I don't know how to feel about this lineups, no problems until we get to Ordonez, look, I HATE Raburn with a passion, for as bad as he is in the field, Ordonez is worse than him and as bad as I think Raburn is on offense, again he is better than Ordonez right now..When Leyland said he's moving Ordonez down the lineup, I thought 7th or 8th, not 6th..

Figured Avila would get a night off and Ordonez would DH, I guess Avila will get his day off tommorow though.

It'll be an interesting lineup, I think Avila needs to move up, he's driving in so many runs, we need his bat higher in the lineup

[gladdyontherise]

And just saw Zumaya is done for the year, having surgery AGAIN.

Well atleast we didnt have to watch him injure himself this year?

[gladdyontherise]

Nice win tonight for the club..Scherzer was dominant with 8 innings and 9 strikeouts, improves to 5-0, and even had a Magglio sighting believe it or not. Alburquerque finishes it out in the 9th, that guy is awesome..

Porcello on the mound tommorow, 3 of 4 would be great to get in this series

[spuds1961]

Nice game by scherzer Dan,I knew picking up his topps tribute gu auto numbered to 75 was a good pick up.The Yankees bats look dead,didn't see the game but 4 hits tells me they aren't hitting right now.

[gladdyontherise]

Got one Auto myself, guess it will do for now.

Yanks had a good chance in the 8th to do something but Granderson hit into a double play to end any chance they had...I'd be thrilled with a win tommorow, got to work during the game, will listen to it on the radio though..Hoping for the best from Porcello, but right now you just dont know with him..2 bad starts and 3 good ones in a row now

[spuds1961]

You know they always play better when they play the Yankees Dan.I expected the Tigers to take 3 of 4 in this series,after 7 losses in a row they had to wake up now.

[gladdyontherise]

At home they do..I think last year they played each other 8 times and the home team took 3 of 4 each time..After tommorow they head off to Tornot, should be interesting..the lineup put out today did well..but Avila will get the day off tommorow so i'd assume Peralta will move down to hitting 8th, Raburn will hit 7th and the rest will be the same

[spuds1961]

I'm on my 13 and 14 hour work stretch so I haven't been able to watch these games except for mondays which the Yankees won,usually it's the other way around when I get to watch them they lose.You guys better stay hot and sweep Toronto,one less team in the Yankees division to worry about.