Wednesday, July 27, 2005

A 50-50 proposition

The Tigers are 50-50 and continue to be remarkably unremarkable.

They are 24-26 at home, 26-24 on the road. They are 12-13 vs. the AL East, 21-22 vs. the AL Central and 8-6 against the AL West. They are the only team in the majors to be within 2 games of .500 in all of those categories. Usually, a team has one in which they're really good, or awful. Only Florida comes close to matching Detroit, but the Marlins are 3 games under .500 against both the NL East and NL Central.

But it doesn't end there! I'm not making this up, either. The Tigers are 18-18 during the day and 32-32 at night. They are 45-45 on grass and 5-5 on turf. And they were 9-9 in interleague play.

The only places where the Tigers break from this bizarre tendency toward .500 is in extra innings (6-1) and one-run games (12-17).

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