Advantage Tigers

The lesson of their last three games seems to be don’t give up much of a lead to the Detroit Tigers, because their pitching will make it very tough to catch up. We watched most of tonight’s game over at Barbara’s; when I left from work to go over there Barry Zito of the Oakland A’s seemed to be very much in command. But he faltered at the end of the 3rd inning, giving up a home run to Brandon Inge, and by the time I arrived it was 2-0 Tigers. The Tigers picked up 3 more runs to make it 5-0 in the 4th inning, knocking Zito out of the game. The Tigers held on to win it 5-1.

The Tigers thus take the first game of the seven-game series on the road. Their lead is hardly insurmountable, but if the rest of the Tigers’ starting rotation pitches like they did against the Yankees, the A’s have their work cut out for them.