Leyland got away with one tonight. Asking Andy Dirks to bunt with two men on, taking the bat out of the hands of his one good lower order hitter was bad enough, then pinch hitting for Avisil Garcia with Berry, a Cinderella who's clearly past midnight, then generally clearing making sure every light hitting infielder ended up in the game as pinch runners so they could go station to station like the guys they replaced, to brinking in Coke, and his .300 plus opp. batting average instead of Porcello, who thrived last year in playoff pen duty, all but assured himself he was going into a gunfight with only a boy scout knife. It's just dumb luck they only needed a sac fly to win at that point, because you know damn well new tam Mascot Don Kelly didn't have anything more in him.

sure he's up 2-0 but he's show Bob Melvin (and Joe Girardi or Buck Showalter) that there's no reason to ever pitch to Prince Fielder, and if they can just wear down the starter and get to the pen, they can beat these guys.

In re: the second to last bullet, it still boggles my mind that Bob Melvin is carrying not one but two lefty-punishers on his bench in Jonny Gomes and Chris Carter, and he completely declined to use either of them. Pennington is a switch hitter, sure, but, he's nowhere near as good against any kind of pitcher as Gomes or Carter is against a lefty. Having declined to use his hitter there, he had another opportunity with the lefty Stephen Drew. Drew did pop a single, but I still don't understand why Melvin is carrying Carter and Gomes against a Tigers team that features no left-handed starters if he isn't going to use them against the left-handed relievers.

Is he saving them for Seth Smith and Brandon moss?

That was certainly an error by Coco Crisp, on that pop fly he dropped off the bat of Miguel Cabrerra. Huge misplay.