seattle mariners

It started out badly.  It ended much worse.  Tiger starter Phil Coke walked 4 Mariner hitters in the first inning and gave up a hit to put his team in a 4-0 hole.  They would never recover.

Jhonny Peralta belted a three-run triple in the 7th inning to help power the Tigers to an 8-3 win over the Seattle Mariners.  Miguel Cabrera and Brennan Boesch both added a pair of hits and drove home a run apiece in the win.

The baseball pundits say that Oakland has great pitching.  The Tiger hitters would concur.  They could only manage to score once yesterday in a 5-1 loss to the Athletics.  That one tally came on a Casper Wells solo homer late in the game.

The Tigers had their ace, Justin Verlander on the mound.  Usually that gives them a better than average chance to win.  So far this season, they haven't given him much help.

Two days in a row.  Two walkoff wins.  Brandon Inge jumped on a hanging curve ball from Texas reliever Darren Oliver and put it in the left field seats to give the Tigers a 3-2 win.

In a game that went back and forth several times, the Tigers finally showed that they might still be a team to reckon with.