The Playoff Push!

October is heating up with all of this exciting Major League Baseball playoff matches and the Detroit Tigers are right in the middle of it. With the Tigers bats falling short when the pitching is hot, and the pitching falling short when the bats are hot made it tough to beat there first round opponents the Oakland Athletics. The Athletics only needed to win one more game to eliminate the Detroit Tigers, but with the home crowd on our side, and our ace pitcher Max Scherzer coming out of the bullpen it was going to be tough to lose.

            Detroit would end up winning that game four,three to two and that forced a game five back at the Oakland A’s place. With the ace pitcher Max Scherzer out from pitching the previous game we turned to one of the best pitchers ever to play the game Justin Verlander. Justin always says that he loves when the crowd is at they’re loudest and fuels off of the pressure so it was a perfect atmosphere for Verlander to throw one hell of a game. Oakland A’s decided to throw their young gun pitcher Sunny Gray, and after the first you knew it was going to be a low scoring game due to the pitching battle on the mound. It took all the way up to the fourth inning to see the first hit of the game. With Torii Hunter on first, and Miguel Cabrera walking up to the plate there was a tense moment at the plate. With one swing of his bat he sent the ball up and over the outfield wall for a two run homer. Justin Verlander finally got some run support from his team, and he did not slow down on the mound throwing a no hitter all the way up until the sixth inning. Even after he let up one hit he didn’t change a thing. After getting pulled in the eighth inning he only let up one run. The Tigers bats were on and off but the did score another run. In the ninth inning Oakland came out of nowhere and scored two runs. However it wasn’t enough and the Tigers got the win and moved on to the next round to play the Boston Red Sox’s.

            After the game five win I think the Tigers got back on the right path and our playing as one team again. If the bats and pitching fall on the same page there is no team that can beat the Tigers when this happens. Let’s hope the keep it going and become the champs once again.