What a wild game in Detroit. The Tigers go up 4-0, 5-2 and then 8-4, but the Red Sox fight back to tie the game at eight in the seventh. Dustin Pedroia pinch hits in the eighth and knocks home the go-ahead run with a single. That score holds up as Papelbon enters for the bottom of the ninth.

The Tigers pecked him to death. Joyce led off with a check swing, resulting in a slow roller to short. Lugo can't throw him out, base hit. Renteria appropriately grounds to short, and Lugo finds out what it was like to be Edgar as he commits an error, putting runners at first and second. I-Rod sacrifices for Granderson, who hits a grounder to second with the infield back. Tie game, blown save and the ball never got out of the infield.

That brings up Placido Polanco. He's four for five on the night. Jon falls behind him. Polanco swings, makes contact, but the bat shatters. It's a hump back liner over shortstop. Lugo goes back, but the ball is out of reach and the Tigers pull one out 10-9. This is the kind of offense we expected from both these squads when the season started.