September 18, 2006
In a big game in the race for the AL Central Championship my Detroit Tigers dropped a 2-1 decision to the Chicago White Sox tonight. The 1st of 3 games in the series, Detroit took an early lead in the 2nd inning on a Carlos Guillen homerun, but that would be all the runs the Tigers would score. Chicago came right back in the bottom of the 2nd with an unearned run to tie it up at 1-1. The White Sox added a run in the bottom of the 4th for a 2-1 lead and would hold on the rest of the game for the 2-1 victory.
Mark Buehrle and Kenny Rogers both pitched well with Buehrle getting the Win and Rogers taking the tough Loss. Bobby Jenks came on in the 8th inning to get Chicago out of a jam then pitched a perfect 9th for his 40th Save of the season.
The Win moved Chicago within a .5 game of the 1st place Minnesota Twins and Detroit dropped back to 2.5 GB.
BOXSCORE: 2006 Detroit Tigers At 2006 Chicago (AL) White Sox 9/18/2006
Tigers AB R H RBI AVG White Sox AB R H RBI AVG
C.Granderson CF 4 0 0 0 .307 P.Ozuna LF 4 0 2 0 .287
M.Thames DH 4 0 2 0 .270 T.Iguchi 2B 4 0 1 0 .282
B-A.Gomez PR,DH 0 0 0 0 .200 J.Dye RF 4 0 0 0 .301
I.Rodriguez C 4 0 1 0 .307 J.Thome DH 3 1 1 0 .307
M.Ordonez RF 4 0 1 0 .287 P.Konerko 1B 3 1 1 0 .311
C.Guillen SS 4 1 1 1 .325 A-R.Gload 1B 1 0 0 0 .368
C.Monroe LF 4 0 0 0 .292 J.Crede 3B 4 0 1 1 .295
C.Shelton 1B 3 0 2 0 .260 A.Pierzynski C 3 0 1 0 .317
C-M.Stairs PH 1 0 0 0 .249 B.Anderson CF 4 0 1 1 .238
B.Inge 3B 3 0 1 0 .278 J.Uribe SS 3 0 0 0 .234
N.Perez 2B 2 0 1 0 .209
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Totals 33 1 9 1 Totals 33 2 8 2
A-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Konerko In 8th Inning
B-Pinch Ran For Thames In 8th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Shelton In 9th Inning
Tigers.......... 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 9 1
White Sox....... 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 2 8 0
Tigers (86-64) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
K.Rogers LOSS(19-6) 7 7 2 1 2 5 0 122 3.99
J.Walker 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 3.44
Totals 8 8 2 1 2 5 0
White Sox (88-62) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
M.Buehrle WIN(9-9) 7 1/3 9 1 1 0 3 1 81 5.54
B.Jenks SAVE(40th) 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 0 16 4.46
Totals 9 9 1 1 0 5 1
ATTENDANCE- 40,043 DATE- Monday, September 18th 2006 TIME- Night WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- Larry Poncino, Bruce Dreckman, Mike Dimuro, Gary Darling
T- 2:39
LEFT ON BASE- Tigers: 6 White Sox: 9
DOUBLE PLAYS- Tigers: 0 White Sox: 2
ERRORS- K.Rogers
DOUBLES- J.Crede(30th)
HOME RUNS- C.Guillen(25th)
RBIs- C.Guillen(85th), J.Crede(81st), B.Anderson(42nd)
STOLEN BASES- A.Gomez(5th)
SACRIFICE HITS- N.Perez
WALKS- J.Thome, A.Pierzynski
STRIKE OUTS- C.Granderson, M.Ordonez, C.Guillen, C.Monroe-2, J.Dye, J.Thome,
P.Konerko, B.Anderson, J.Uribe
GIDP- M.Thames, I.Rodriguez
WILD PITCHES- K.Rogers
2-out RBI- B.Anderson
RLISP 2-out- J.Uribe-3, M.Thames-2, P.Konerko, J.Thome, M.Ordonez
TEAM RISP- Tigers: 0 for 3 White Sox: 2 for 11
In a game for the baseball purist, Mark Buehrle(9-9) and Kenny Rogers(19-6)
squared off in a tense pitching duel with the very strong Chicago (AL) White Sox
finally emerging victorious over Detroit Tigers, 2 to 1.
Buehrle pitched well for Chicago (AL) in their victory. He went 7 and 1/3
innings and surrended up 9 hits and no walks. Both teams' bats went to sleep
after the 4th inning with no runs scored after that point.
Bobby Jenks gained credit for his 40th save.
ACTUAL-TODATE ACTUAL-TOTAL
AL Central WON LOST PCT GB MAGIC# WON LOS PCT WON LOS PCT
2006 Minnesota MNA 88 61 .591 ---- 13 88 61 .591 96 66 .593
2006 Chicago (AL) CHA 88 62 .587 .5 84 66 .560 90 72 .556
2006 Detroit DEA 86 64 .573 2.5 90 60 .600 95 67 .586
2006 Cleveland CLA 64 85 .430 24.0 70 79 .470 78 84 .481
2006 Kansas City KCA 57 93 .380 31.5 58 92 .387 62 100 .383
