Tigers Week 8 Recap (24-27)

I sound like a broken record with this team.  Another week of mediocre at best baseball and they are still below .500 and are fighting with the Royals for 4^th place in the division.  It is hard to believe this is how the season has gone so far.

This week was a roller coaster 7 games.  The Tigers finally broke the streak of not winning back to back games by sweeping the twins (I do not capitalize the t because some just don’t deserve it).  Then, when some fans thought it was alright to look again, they dropped a stink bomb in Fenway.  Fister got rocked and headed straight to the DL again, Verlander got rocked for the first time in 2 years for his 2^nd straight loss, and Ortiz looked like an MVP candidate against our pitching. 

The Tigers are closing in on completing a third of the season, and they just don’t look like a very good baseball team right now.  The scariest part about that is the division doesn’t look nearly as bad as last season.  Detroit has been hit hard with the injury bug, I guess it is making up for last season when nobody seemed to be injured. Looking back on last season, it is becoming more clear that it was a dream season.  The lack of injuries, Valverde’s perfect season, the bullpen in general not blowing a single lead after the 7^th inning (in 77 chances), Peralta’s career season, and Avila being the starting AL catcher.  The Tigers got all of the breaks last season, and they were a very fun team to root for.  This season, I would have to say a very small amount of breaks have come Detroit’s way, and when they do they seem to be the bad ones.  This baseball team is flawed, that is easy to see.  But they are better than a sub .500 team.

Looking ahead, the Tigers welcome in the Yankees and the Indians to Comerica before interleague play.  This is another important week of trying to get on a bit of a hot streak.  The way this season is going though, I really doubt that it happens. I guess at this point the only thing we can hope for is for AJ to come back fully healthy this week, then Andy and Doug to continue to heal and be 100% when their 15 days are up, and Alex to get back behind the plate soon because I don’t trust Santos.