Baseball, Basketball and Football

It has been almost two weeks, since the regular season of baseball has started, and some teams have started breaking away from the weaker teams in their division. Although, the teams that are breaking away from the weaker ones are not the teams that someone who followed the last season would have thought. The team who has the biggest lead over the last team on its division is the Chicago White Sox which has three a three game lead over the Detroit Tigers. The Detroit Tigers who had a sixteen games advantage over the White Sox last season are now trailing by three games. The Tigers had not won a single game in this current season. It seems that the Tigers are suffering the revenge of last season’s weak teams. The creepy thing is that they started the regular season with a three game series against the Kansas City Royals which was the second worst team in the MLB last season. The even more amazing is that, they started the regular season at their own ballpark, the Comerica Park. The Tigers who had won eleven games and had lost eight game last season against the Royals, had a good chance of winning since their starting pitcher was Justin Verlander who was the third pitcher with most wins last season. The Tigers were put on some fight, by going to extra-innings, but enough since the Royals won in the eleventh inning with a hit right down the middle of John Buck to send Mark Teahen who was in second base to home. The final score was 4-5. The next night, maybe it was because they had lost the opening game or maybe it was because they lost it on their ballpark, whatever the reason was, the Tigers did a poor job at the second game and lost badly against the Royals 0-4. The offense did not help Kenny Rogers and the batter who did the only two hits for the Tigers Edgar Renteria, did not get any help from his teammates. It was a hit parade for the Royals that night. The third night was not so different than the second one, because the Tigers lost 1-4. Again the Tiger’s powerful pitching did not get any help from their offense, which the only danger they caused, was the solo-homerun of Brandon Inge. I think that the Royals thought they were at the batting cages and just swung powerful and incredible hits. With two homeruns, one of Alex Gordon in the 4th inning and another one of Mark Teahen in the 6th inning, and eleven hits by the Royals in total in the game, the Tigers had another loss and the Royals, another win. My opinion is that the Royals must had felt throughout these three games, that they were on batting practice, because although the Tiger’s pitching was not bad, they did not got help from their offense so that must had brought down the spirit of the pitchers throughout the games. After that series against the Royals the Tigers had to face the White Sox which were also almost in the last place of their division, last season. After using the best of the best of the Tiger’s starting pitchers, the team used Nate Robertson and then, the Tiger’s bats waked up. Ivan Rodriguez was the star for the Tiger in the first game by hitting a two doubles in the 2nd inning and 3rd inning and then hitting a single in the 5th inning. Having three RBI’s Rodriguez was not the only one who gave the team some hope, Clete Thomas got three single hits done and made one RBI for the team. Although the offense was doing a good job and the pitching was not so bad either, the White Sox got a sweet revenge. Carlos Quentin hit a homerun in the 2nd inning and then A.J. Pierzinsky with another homerun in the 7th inning. Also Jim Thome and Paul Konerko with a double each and then Jermaine Dye and A.J. Pierzinsky with two doubles each. The final score was 8-5. The second game against the White Sox had kind of the same story; the starting pitcher was Dontrelle Willis and did a very good job. Brandon Inge shined for the Tigers by making a two-out double and sending home three runs, and then a two-run homerun in the 4th inning. The Tiger’s performance was impeccable and outstanding with the exception of one error, but it was not enough. Luck, was on the White Sox’s side. With only making THREE hits in the WHOLE GAME the White Sox were able to get the win. The first hit is made by Jim Thome, after Willis walked two batters; Thome makes a double bringing in one run. Then Carlos Quentin makes another double bringing another run home. Finally Jermaine Dye with a solo Homerun to finish the game. The final score was 3-5 for the White Sox. I think that the second game, the Tigers should have won it because they gave everything they had in that game, but in the end; luck was on the White Sox’s side. On Sunday 6th the final game of the series between the Tigers and the White Sox is played. I personally think that the Tigers are going to desperately go for that win and I think that would be enough for them. The Tigers started off with shaky firsts games, but have been progressing and I think they would get the win on Sunday. The Tigers just needed to get their batters and pitchers warmed up for the real thing and that is what those five games did for them. I think the Tiger’s were not aware of how much damage the teams they faced off in the last five games could do to them, but know they are going to play with all they have. I think that the Tigers have the potential to win on Sunday because, as we can see, the batters are starting to show what they are made of, and the rookie of the year in 2006, Justin Verlander would give the same or even more effort than he gave at the start of the regular season. So, I personally believe that The Detroit Tigers deserved the win in Sunday, way more than the Chicago White Sox.