Game 60: Record 33-27

Grandy's heroics undone by Zumaya

Tigers trailed the entire game until Ryan Raburn got a hit on an 0-2 count off White Sox closer and Tiger killer, Bobby Jenks. He stole second and with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Jenks was just one out from ending the game with a 3-1 win for the Sox. Then Curtis came up and hit him, hard. He pulled the ball into the right field stands to tie the game in the top of the ninth. Awesome!

Then came the bottom of the ninth, where Joel did not record an out, even when the White Sox tried to give him one with a sacrafice. He gave up 2 hits, a walk had an error and got the loss. It was considered an unearned run because of the error, but it was his own error. Not good. Joel was throwing his usual heat - upper 90's to 100. But that isn't good enough if you do not have movement and you aren't throwing your off-speed stuff much or for strikes. These guys just sit on the fastball and can hit it. These are major league hitters and they will catch up with it.

Edwin pitched well, but not as good as usual and as a result, he was out of the game after 5 innings. Brandon Lyon pitched good in relief again, then Nate came in and gave up a long ball to Pierzynski (hate that guy).