My new favorite baseball columnist

Just saw this on a blog post by Chris Calcaterra of NBC Sports' Circling the Bases:

Tigers 9, Indians 8: The Tigers had no business winning this game. They trailed by four heading into their half of the eighth and they stranded eighteen (18) runners, but with the Indians' bullpen all things are possible. In this case, a bases loaded walk and then a wild pitch by Chris Perez is what was possible. Gerald Laird snapped his 0-17 to start the season, which if it had happened in Boston the city would be on lockdown. Justin Verlander said this after the game: "The Indians have a great team, and you have to make good pitches to get them out." Justin. We are men of action. Lies do not become us.


Well done, Chris.  Well done.