IGT - Mets vs. Tigers 6/9/07

[Zvon]

Val keeps it goin with a double!

2 runners in scoring position for Beltraan.

[Zvon]

CarlosBee walks.
CarlosDee with ducks all over the place.

[Frayed Knot]

I really wish network announcers (and others for that matter) would stop touting things like "most RBIs ever in Inter-League Play" as if it's a meaningful stat.

[Zvon]

Delgado cant get it done.

That was really the perfect scenario, especially with how hot Delgado has been lately.

Dagggggnabbitt.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Aw, Carlos.

I gave up when it was 5-3, then saw it was 8-6 and ran back downstairs to watch.

Fear not, though. The Tigers have a backdraft bullpen and we have two more chances to get to it.

[Frayed Knot]

Well that inning could have been better, but at least it got us back into the game.
Now the meat of the pen has to redeem itself from their recent transgressions.

[Zvon]

[TransMonk]

Wright with a solo shot...down by one.

[Frayed Knot]

Wow!
I didn't think that Wright HR was going to be anywhere near going out.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I'm telling you, their bullpen is in shambles! We can do this!

[Frayed Knot]

Unfortunately we can't pinch-run for Castro
Might take 4 consecutive hits to get him in.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Here comes awful closer/homophobe Todd Jones to try to protect the lead against the top of the order.

Who's going to step up? Who's going to be the hero? It's time for a rally song.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

I hate other teams' closers throwing big hooks in the 9th.

[Zvon]

Gah.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Damned shift, damned Bonnie Tyler. Dammit.

[bmfc1]

Alas, I missed most of the game but I'm surprised that there's no hatin' for Mota.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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"We battled!"

[Gwreck]

Was there on Friday and for this game.

Delgado had the two chances to get it done, 7th and 9th -- but really, it was the 7th, with 3 men on that was our real chance to win the game.

Todd Jones -- with a 5.79 ERA coming into the game, and 4 blown saves -- is a fairly big mystery. How can he be effective? He had a total of 11 BBs and 9 Ks going into the game. I guess Detroit has a pretty good defense but still, it doesn't make sense. With all the closers we've gotten to this year (Fuentes, Dempster, Benitez, Valverde) I was really hopeful we could add one to that list.

I was surprised that they didn't keep Gotay in the game after his successful pinch-hitting apperance. Seemed strange, they could've put Valentin in left (or Gotay, he seems athletic, he could try LF too).

Mota also totally killed us. Sele looked good, given that he had not pitched in 2 weeks, I believe.

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Comerica thoughts:

I'd been there once before but have been to several other new parks since for some comparison. I like the layout and the dowtown setting, but Detroit's downtown is, of course, not exactly a great place. You can see where improvements were made for the Super Bowl but not a ton of progress has been made. Depressing.

The big thing with several of the big sports bars is to offer free parking and shuttle bus service to the stadium. There are a few that are still located next to Tiger Stadium.

We had seats down the right field line both games, once closer in, where the seats were kinda cramped (and I'm not exactly a huge person with long legs, either). Seemed to be wider (and not just more leg room) in a lower down row. The open concourse wasn't quite as good as I've seen it. Concessions stands galore made lines very short but the bathroom lines were very very long. All games this weekend were sold out, but I thought the point was to have enough for that sort of game.

Great use of music at Comerica (appropriately). They play "Dancing in the Street" after their wins. Scoreboard is very good with the exception of the out-of-town scoreboard (way too small, not visible from everywhere). The main scoreboard puts up lots of situational statistics and they do a good job of finding the worst possible situational stats (ie. Beltran is hitting .189 with runners on 2nd and 3rd) for their opponents.

Detroit fans love them some Tigers merch. Seemed like *everybody* was wearing Tigers apparel. I liked that they had player name and number shirts for seemingly every position player regular, most of the starters as well as Zumaya and Jones. Nice (as opposed to Reyes, Wright, Delgado, Beltran, Wagner, which is all the Mets seem to ever have).