Afternoon Delight

While most people were eating their lunch, the Tigers were feasting on Shaun Marcum.

Marcum almost doubled his walk total for the year with four free passes, and the Tigers made him pay to the tune of five runs in only five innings.

Pudge had a nice 4-5 day, Edgar Renteria hit his 3rd home run in a week, and Ryan Raburn came up big with a two RBI single in the 2nd.

Armando Galarraga made his second start of the year and looked much less consistent. He also walked four batters, and had bases loaded situations in back to back innings. He obviously has god on his side, as no runners came in to score in either situation. A control pitching soft tosser cannot afford to get himself into situations like that, and it really stirred visions of Chad Durbin from last year.

The bullpen was solid, but unspectular. Aquilino Lopez gave a solid 1.1 innings, Clay Rapada was used for only for a couple of matchups, and Denny Bautista got himself in and out of a jam. Todd Jones, of course, allowed the only run of the day on a Gregg Zaun home run in the 9th.