Pat the last thing you want for either team is to have a sweep. They say 6 game series is perfect. I don't buy that either that Max was done, he should have started the 8th. I really question Kelly over Dirks because Dirks makes a living off guys that throw 93 m.p.h or less. Kelly is only effective against ground ball pitchers. I do believe though Kelly would have made the catch in RF. I like Hunter bat and arm but I have been extremely disappointed with his D.
My shot at second guessing: If Ortiz is the one hitter who could most do damage, why not give him the unintentional intentional pass. Allowing even 3 runs would have kept the Tigers in the lead.
Pat Caputo is a sports columnist for The Oakland Press. Caputo covered the Tigers from 1986-98, and Lions from 1998-2002 for The Oakland Press before becoming a columnist. Caputo was raised in Birmingham and played baseball and football at Groves High School. His photograph playing high school sports appeared in The Oakland Press. He has won numerous writing awards, including first place in column writing from the Michigan Associated Press and the Michigan Press Association, and from the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been named among the Top Ten sports columnists in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), and has won honors in four of the APSE's six national award categories. He has garnered top national honors for his column writing and sports writing from the Local Media Association. Caputo, who has resided in Oakland County since he was nine years old, currently lives in Lake Orion. Caputo has a radio show weeknights and weekends on 97.1 FM, The Ticket, which is the flagship station for the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. He also appears regularly on FOX 2 television on "SportsWorks."
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Pat the last thing you want for either team is to have a sweep. They say 6 game series is perfect.
I don't buy that either that Max was done, he should have started the 8th. I really question Kelly
over Dirks because Dirks makes a living off guys that throw 93 m.p.h or less. Kelly is only effective against ground ball pitchers. I do believe though Kelly would have made the catch in RF. I like Hunter bat and arm but I have been extremely disappointed with his D.
Yeah, the pain for Tiger's fans is watching Leyland make pitching changes.
My shot at second guessing: If Ortiz is the one hitter who could most do damage, why not give him the unintentional intentional pass. Allowing even 3 runs would have kept the Tigers in the lead.
Dave
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