Putting the Roar back in the Tigers

The day after their dramatic 5-2 victory on Wednesday night, the Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago White Sox 2-1. After trailing 1-0 through the first 6 innings, the Tigers scored 1 in the 6th and 1 in the 7th and kept the Sox of the board w/ great bullpen work. Young reliever Joel Zumaya came out of the pen firing fastballs up to 102 mph on the gun, shutting out the Sox in 2 innings of relief. Todd Jones came out to close it in his usual fassion: a scary 3 deep fly outs in the outfield.

However, the play of the game quite possibly could have been Marcus Thames breaking up a double play in the bottom of the 7th. This later allowed Craig Monroe to score from first base on a Chris Shelton double in the next at bat. It's the little things a winning team does, and the Tigers showed those today.

The win today marked their 2nd out of 3 versus the Sox. Sure they've struggled vs. the Sox this year, but I think this series marked the turn around. After today the Tigers are now 5 and a half games up on Chicago, and I don't see them falling off any time soon. Baseball is back in Detroit.

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Thu 07/20/06, 1:34 pm EST

FornelliTee-Baller

1248 days ago

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The Thames play was definetely the play of the game. Still, it's not like Detroit killed the White Sox, so I don't think it's safe to assume they'll beat them everytime now. Still 2.5 months left of baseball to play, and the White Sox as evidenced last year, are capable of reeling off 18 of 20.

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Sports Writer06Waterboy

1248 days ago

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Very true...but if you've been paying attention to the tigers this year, the Tigers have already accomplished that earlier in the year I think it was more along the lines of 14 of 15, but still impressive. I really doubt they'll beat them every time now, but its certainly a start. 10 more games versus those Sox too.

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