Detroit Baseball

Yesterday was the greatest day in recent memory for many Detroit sports fans. Not only did the Michigan Wolverines pulverize the Spartans to improve to 6-0 on the year. More importantly the Detroit Tigers won their first postseason series since 1984. Fueled by an incredible pitching performance by Jeremy Bonderman, clutch hitting up and down the lineup, and the outstanding coaching by Jim Leyland and his staff. The Tigers were able to dominate the Yankees throughout the entire series.

A-Rod continued an atrocious career postseason performance going 1-14, with 4 K's and now walks for a whopping postseason average of .071. Giambi was struggling so much that he didn't even play. Sheffield finished with multiple errors at first base and a pitiful average of .081. Matsui, Cabrera, and Cano, all hit under .250 for the series as well. There was no stopping the dominating pitching by Bonderman, Rogers, Verlander, Zumaya, and Walker for the week. The Tigers were able to come up with clutch hits, play strong defense, and rely on dominate pitching which helped them to get to the postseason for the first time since 1987.