Casey back at first
Omar Infante starts at short in place of Carlos Guillen. Here’s the lineup:
- Granderson, CF
- Polanco, 2B
- Sheffield, DH
- Ordonez, RF
- Rodriguez, C
- Casey, 1B
- Monroe, LF
- Inge, 3B
- Infante, SS
Jose Mesa’s supposedly feeling fine after his rehab outing Tuesday, so he’s expected to be activated from the disabled list on Friday. As for the rotation, Chad Durbin will not be skipped next week with two off-days coming up, but he’ll be flip-flopped with Nate Robertson. Thus, Robertson will start Tuesday’s series opener against the Mariners (and next Sunday’s series finale against the Twins), with Durbin pitching Wednesday against Seattle.
Jason Beck
Great Tiger game. Jones was extremely good. Nice to see the Ks too.
Grilli came in and got a big out and Rodney was impressive.
Sheffield is stretching out the outfield and some hits are falling in for him as well as the HRs. C-Mo is primed and looking ready to go too.
Nate wasn’t sharp, but he still got it done. Good gritty performance and he’s become quite a pitcher.
This is the first time since the Trammell-Whitaker days that I’ve really expected some offense when the lineup turns over. You don’t want to leave the room when Polanco, Sheff, Maggs, and Guillen are due up. Looks like Jim Thome’s “it takes about a month” comment on DHing is coming true.
If anybody missed it, this is the first time EVER that the Orioles have been swept in Detroit.
ok well the tigers are coming around. good to see them in ‘first’ place…
jason, or anyone here that might know… my question is this:
the cleveland indians…. they’re not TRUELY in first place are they? i know they missed several (2-3?) games at the begining of the season, when do they make those games up so that the rest of the central division gets back to ‘normal’ with the stats?
Deadhead, the team with the best W-L percentage is in first place, so that’s Cleveland for now. They haven’t rescheduled those Seattle games yet. This is why, as a season winds to a finish, that everyone begins to look at the loss column. A team with 58 losses is stuck with that, while a team with 56 losses has two chances not to lose those games.
If that sounds weird, try this one: back in about 1908 or so, when the league wasn’t as careful about all teams playing the same amount of games, the final day of the season began with about four teams in contention for first. The team that started that day in first place wasn’t scheduled, so they were in fact already eliminated. As Casey Stengel said, “you can look it up.”