On Saturday, Jacob Turner made his much anticipated major league debut. He supplied the best outing from a 5 starter in quite awhile, though he did surrender 5 stolen bases, becoming the sixth pitcher to have 5 stolen bases against him in his debut since 1919. Roger Clemens was one of the others.
Overall though he pitched well, allowing 2 runs on 3 hits in 5.1 innings of work. He walked 3 and hit a batter, but he did strike out 6. In general he was pretty sharp. He could have gotten out of the 6th with the lead but Phil Coke came in and hit 2 batters, including one with the bases loaded.
In the end though, Turner took the loss and added to the Curse of the Fifth Starter. Phil Coke, Charlie Furbush, Duane Below, and Jacob Turner are now a combined 1-12 on the season.
Dan Haren pitched a complete game in the 5-1 Angels victory, going the distance in a win against Detroit twice in the last 6 weeks or so.
Magglio Ordonez had an RBI single for Detroit.
On Sunday it was Justin Verlander doing the mowing. He came without 4 outs of a 2nd no-hitter on the season, allowing his only hit on an RBI single with 2 outs in the top of the 8th. He becomes the first pitcher since Nolan Ryan in 1989 to carry 3 or more no-hitters into at least the 7th inning. Ryan did it 5 times that year, but didn't notch one of his 7 career no-hitters that year.
Verlander upped his record to 15-5on the season. Jose Valverde made it 28 for 28 on saves this season.
The game got testy though. Jared Weaver was miffed when Magglio Ordonez hit his 4th home run of the season, a 2 run shot just inside the left field foul pole. He stayed at the plate to watch it, seeing if it would stay fair. Weaver didn't like it, and thought that Ordonez trotted too slowly around the bases. I saw the replay and honestly think Maggs wasn't sure it was going to stay fair. His home run trot seemed normal.
In the 7th, Carlos Guillen hit his 2nd home run of the season. He did stand at the plate and watch it, then flipped his bat. Guillen said that he did that because he was not happy with Weaver shouting at Maggs on his home run. That led to Weaver throwing his next pitch over Alex Avila's head and getting tossed.
Verlander had his moment in the 8th when the Angels tried to bunt for a base hit. That's against the etiquette of late game no-hitters, though the game was only 3-0 at that point so a couple base runners could have put the Angels right back in the game. Verlander ended up throwing the ball away trying to make a play , for an error. He had words after the play, and that run ended up scoring
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