The Detroit Tigers played a terrible game on Wednesday afternoon as they were shut out by the Minnesota Twins by the score of 7-0. The pitching staff sucked and so did the offense. The offense was only able to record five hits in the game and struggled all game long. I was really thinking the Tigers could take two our of three from the red hot Twins but boy was I wrong.
Eddie Bonine lost his first game of the year and is now 2-1. Bonine only lasted 2 2/3 innings as he gave up seven hits and allowed five runs to score. I should mention that only two of those five runs were actually earned however.
Casey Fossum pitched 4 1/3 innings after Bonine left the game and he didn’t have much luck either. Fossum gave up two more runs on four hits. Fernando Rodney was finally able to pitch a scoreless inning in the eighth but it was a little to late to stop the bleeding.
Placido Polanco went 2-4 at the plate, but only three other players had a hit in the game as they Twins were shut out. One walk compared to 6 strike outs and leaving 14 runners on base sure didn’t help out the offense that is for sure.
The Tigers will now play the Seattle Mariners in a four game weekend series. This should be a series that the Tigers should went atleast three of four games in my opinion.
