A big 7 run inning fueled this one. I was scared starting the game off because I hate playing against knuckleball pitchers. They either eat you up, or you score a ton against them – which is what happened this night. Steve Sparks didn’t have anything in the second inning, and we had something like five consecutive hits against him, scoring a total of 7 that inning. Arod had two home runs this night – which is always good. :)
Dave Burba was his usual give up runs in the first inning pitcher – I really wish he could start in the second inning. ;) John Rocker gave up a two run home run, but other than that pitch, our relief pitching was good, earning Irabu another save. I don’t like to give up six runs, but when you get 10, I’ll take the win.

Boy, what an awesome game! I actually felt bad for the Tigers starting pitcher. Both he and Kenny Rogers went the first 7 innings before giving up any runs at all. In fact, Kenny went eight and gave up nothing. Jeff Weaver got in a little bit of trouble in the 8th inning and gave up two runs. I’d say 5 hits and two runs over eight innings is an awesome start, but Weaver got the loss because Kenny (& Hideki Irabu) were just that much better.
Ranger pitching allowed only eight scattered hits through nine innings, and no runs at all. I really wish I would have been there for this game, as it was not the kind of pitching performance you get in the AL all that often!
Not much more to say about this one – it was all Kenny Rogers! :)

This was a day game, they’re always tough for me, as I do listen at work, but I can’t pay a lot of attention to them. However, this time it didn’t matter – the show belonged to Joaquin Benoit. He went 6 innings, giving up just one run on four hits. He looked great, and our bullpen was lights out for the final three frames. Rocker, Seanez, & Irabu combined to give up nothing at all, which was great to see.
We didn’t get a lot of offense either, but today we got all we needed. We split with the White Sox, which is about what I figured would happen. One could always hope for more, but I’ll take 2-2 against a division leader (well, almost). :)

I didn’t get to see much of this game – Wed is my bowling league night, and I neglected to record the game. Got to see us try and come back late, but that was about it. It’s a loss, although Mike Young played good.

Crappy, sloppy game. Got to talk to some nice folks up from Houston in the stands, though. That was nice. :)

At the start of this game, I said to a friend at the ballpark that I have a feeling that the Dave Burba we saw in the complete game his last outing wasn’t the one we’ll get here – and I was right – he gave up three runs in the top of the first in a mostly ineffective inning. However, what did surprise me is that we got them right back in the bottom of the first and the game was tied pretty quickly on a Raffy HR. The White Sox pulled ahead in the third 4-3, and we had SEVERAL chances over the next couple of innings to take the lead, and we didn’t. We did tie the game up in the 6th, though.
However, in the 7th, Gabe committed the second of his two errors of the game and allowed the go ahead run to score. However, we managed to pull it together and tie the game in the bottom of the 8th, and finally win it in the bottom of the 9th on a sac fly by Gabe, atoning for his errors.
Not thrilled with Burba, although our pen did pretty good not allowing anything major. Nice to pull off this win, even though it helped the Indians as they too won.

Ugh. :(