Ok, so maybe it's not that much baseball, but it has been a pretty good week and a half for MLB fans. Especially Tigers fans. It would be for Twins fans too, except that they are losing pretty much every game. Last week, Francisco Liriano of the Minnesota Twins threw baseball's first no-hitter of the year. Which is strange, because he walked eight and only struck out two. On top of that, he had an ERA just over nine going into the game. Oh, by the way, he had never thrown a complete game in his career.
One week later, he only went three innings and gave up four runs against the Tigers, who blew out the Twins 10-2.
A couple days later, we went to State Festival with the West Michigan Homeschool Fine Arts (WMHFA) Concert and Advanced Bands and Symphony Orchestra. My brother and I are in Advanced Band. The AB had earned straight ones at District Festival for the first time ever! So we were just happy to be in State. But we still earned II, I, II, I, for an overall score of II, which turned out to be one of the better scores of the day. Symphony Orchestra earned a I (the only orchestra to do that!), and Concert band was one of only three bands to get a I.
Fast forward now to Saturday. I wasn't particularly looking forward to this day, because we had to show bees at Tulip Time for eight hours straight. Not fun. Buffalo Wild Wings provided a free lunch, so that helped a little. But the real highlight of the day was towards the end of the eight hours. The Tigers had started at four, so I was keeping tabs on the score through my iPod. I didn't pay too much attention to it until the 4th, when I realized that Justin Verlander had a perfect game going! Just then, my cousins showed up, and I put the iPod away. They stayed for about an hour, and helped us pick up when it was over. During this time I had only gotten a couple looks at the score, but enough to know that Verlander still had the perfect game going to the 7th. By the bottom of the 7th, we were all picked up and were on the way home, so I got to hear the rest of the game on the radio. In the 8th, with one out, Verlander still held onto perfection. Until, after a twelve pitch at bat, he walked somebody. *sigh* The Tigers are still waiting for the first true perfect game (see: Armando Galarraga) in the team's history. Verlander went on to get a double play, and breezed through the last inning to get his second career no-hitter, the 7th in Tigers history, and the second Tiger to throw two no-hitters in his career, and one of only a handful to throw a no-hitter while facing the minimum amount of batters (27).
The next day, we went back to Tulip Time for another six hours of showing bees. Although the Tigers won, there was no drama. Well, at least there wasn't any compared to the day before.
The Tigers are on a roll now, winning eight of their last nine games. We'll see how long this lasts.
Well, that pretty much sums up my last week or so. I wonder if these amazing baseball games will keep coming...
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