Well, they are half way there. With the win yesterday over the Rockies the Tigers reached .500 for the first time this season. After today's game they will have played 1/2 of the season. They are currently 5 games behind the first place White Sox in the AL Central.
For the first half of the year the Tigers are batting .274 and slugging .435. They have scored 389 runs for an average of 4.86 (with the trend moving up). They have hit 146 doubles, 17 triples and 86 home runs while taking 278 walks and striking out 489 times.
They are pitching with a ERA of 4.64* for the Starters with 238 earned runs over 461.9 innings pitched. The bullpen has an ERA of 4.81 over 132.8 innings pitched. The Starters' ERA is trending down.
Interleague play ends today. Detroits eats National League teams for dinner (12 and 5 so far). I believe I heard a stat saying that Detroit was 31 and 9 over the past few years of Interleague play. Certainly this year playing National League teams has been a factor in their resurgence. Monday they start the 2nd half of the year against the Twins who are the also playing very well against NL teams (.600 ball over the month of June). Then the Tigers play against Seattle and Cleaveland before the Twins again.
Looking at June for all teams in the AL Central I see that the White Sox scored more runs than any other AL Central team (147 or 6.1 per game) and that includes being swept twice! The White Sox also allowed the fewest runs (101 or 4.2 per game). A really good combo. Detroit won more games but scored "only" 121 runs (5.0 per game) while allowing 102 (4.3 per game). The Twins scored 128 (5.1/ game) and allowed 116 (4.6/ game). The Indians scored 130 (5.2/ game) and allowed 125 (5.0/ game) and the Royals scored 122 (5.1/ game) and allowed 113 (4.7/ game). I hope the White Sox cool down before the Tigers play them again.
They are half way done and have a clean slate. They have to make up 5 games and play .610 ball for the rest of the year to make 90 wins for the season. They did better than that for June.
Let's enjoy this last game against the NL today.
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