Tigers Take Care of Business in Tampa

For one night the Tigers hitters and pitchers played role reversal. When starter Armando Galarraga struggled out of the gate, allowing four runs to score in the first inning and shouldering six earned runs without making it through the third inning, the game seemed lost. All season the pitching has been charged with carrying the offense. If they allowed more than four runs in a given game you might as well head for the exits. The 2009 version of the Cardiac Cats don't have much of a history of combackability, if you will. The Tigers haven't been in the business of scoring bunches of runs this season, but that was the task that was required of them. And on this one particular evening in Tampa, the Tigers hitters were equal to the challenge. To the tune of eleven hits and eight runs, the Tigers offense fought back. Jim Leyland—who may very well be earning that contract extension—pulled all the right strings. Pinch runners scored the Tigers final three runs, and pi...