I don’t intend to blog every game we watch on television, but this was Opening Day. We started the season in Detroit. And for the sixth year in a row, we started with a loss.
Verlander seemed to be struggling early on, and we got to him in the fourth. Actually it was more than a little sad to see a guy that talented have a Luke Inning. Things looked good until the bottom of the seventh, when a fading Shields and a less-than-stellar bullpen let the Tigers creep back into it. Then in the bottom of the ninth Yost brought Holland in with the winning run on third. One weak single later, it was over.
I’m sad about the loss, particularly because the number of stranded base runners in the early innings suggested that we’ve still got that problem to work on. But it’s great to have baseball back and fun to watch it on the big screen in reasonable quality (even if somewhat delayed thanks to the blackout rule).
On to the home opener, with supplications to the weather gods begging that the long-range forecast be mistaken about the highs in the lower 50s on Friday.
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