Game 80: Breaking Even, Straining Latissimus Dorsi

The Score: Tigers 7 - Rockies 6

The Gist: Ryan Raburn hit his first career grand slam and Miguel Cabrera’s bottom-of-the-ninth laser to right center drove in the tying and winning runs to save Todd Jones’s neck. Saved, that is, from the choking hands of Justin Verlander or, quite possibly, Jim Leyland. Verlander allowed two runs and five hits in 5 2-3 innings. He walked four batters and fanned six, and was poised to earn his fifth win until…

The Quote: “Ouch.” — Magglio Ordonez as he pulled the most popular sports muscle of 2008, the cursed oblique — a.k.a. latissimus dorsi — muscle. He left Saturday night’s game in the third inning.

The Stat: 6. The number of series the Tigers have won in a row since that ugly sweep by the A’s in Oakland.

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