They looked due

Tigers 2-4 Athletics

Unpredictable. They throw a scrub out on the mound, Kenny pitches decent enough, and we muster 5 hits. It doesn't matter the odds or who's pitching or who's injured. Every game is a crap shoot. Emphasis on the crap.

• The win broke the A's 10 game losing skid.
  

• Marcus had a 2-run shot. That was the extent of the extra-base hits tonight for the Tigers.

• Kenny was average but it should have been good enough. He went 7, gave up 4 runs and 3 walks.
  

• The game ended on a pathetic double play by Sheff. Not much else to be said about this one.
  

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• In lieu of the 20th anniversary of Wayne Gretzky's trade to Los Angeles, Scott Burnside lists some other significant swaps. I thought I was somewhat knowledgeable in the sports history department but I never new that if Gretzky didn't go to LA his other desirable destination was Detroit. Weird. (Apparently he was a Wings fan growing up.) Weren't all of us, though? Sorry if that sounds pompous.

• Not that I was banking on it, but Josh Smith won't be a Piston. 5 years/$58 mil. sounds quite reasonable for the likes of Smith. That gives the Grizz a young core of OJ Mayo, Mike Conley Jr., Rudy Gay, Arthur Darrel (one of my Draft Day hopefuls) and of course Darko Milicic.