Friday, April 25, 2008 |
Ervin Santana, Road Warrior: Angels 4, Tigers 3
But I would say that it was really Ervin Santana getting it done on the road that constituted the real meat of winning this game. He wasn't perfect, and he wobbled a lot, especially late (as in the sixth when he walked the bases loaded), but got out of his self-created messes and pitched well when he needed to.
Vlad's two-run shot on an inside pitch was breathtaking, but a word needs to be put in now for Casey Kotchman and his left-handed swing against lefty Nate Robertson. Before this game, Kotchman was already hitting better against lefties (.284) than righties (.270), and he's doing even better this year (.417/.500/.833 vs. lefties, .303/.370/.561 vs. RHP). On top of all that, Kotchman made two lineouts to save both Justin Speier and Frankie. All that means Robb Quinlan's days on the team are increasingly numbered, and the first time the team needs an extra pitcher, you can imagine he might get traded or dumped.
And I don't want to leave this writeup without first mentioning the terrific 1-2-3 outing by Frankie.
What a great game, and for both clubs.
Labels: angels, recaps, tigers
And all that without either of our top 2 starters and our star second baseman.
I'm cautiously optimistic.
By the way, the CAPTCHA for Blogger is getting too hard for humans while getting destroyed by bots. They need a better idea.
Speaking of, I just got an Eee...there's no way to configure the MLB.TV player in Linux, is there? It's been a while since I've used the OS regularly.
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