Detroit Sports

Monday, April 05, 2004

Tigers 7 Bluejays 0

The Tigers started the season great today. They destroyed the Bluejays 7-0. The Tigers hit great against last year's CY Young winner Roy Halladay. They scored all seven runs of their runs against him. The Tigers' starting pitcher Jason Johnson played very well pitching 6 innings,striking out 3, and only allowing 4 hits as he picked up his first victory of the season. Pudge,Vina,Levine, and White also had great first games with the Tigers. Pudge went 2-5 with a single and a solo homerun against Halladay in the 6th inning. Rondell White went 2-4,scored 2 runs, and hit a monster 3 run homer in the 7th inning. Fernando Vina went 2-5 with 2 singles. Al Levine played good in relief of Johnson. He pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings with a strikeout. Carlos Pena started the scoring with a solo homerun in the 4th inning. He also added a single. Last year's Tiger MVP, Dimiti Young, went 2/4 with 2 runs scored. Bobby Higginson also added 2 rbi's with the bases loaded. The Tigers didn't have any errors in the game. They played well all around today. It was a great way for them to start the season. All the players the Tigers got this offseason played well today. Even though it is just one win out of 162 games it was still important. They haven't started a season 1-0 in 3 years. They now need to take this momentum and play good the rest of this series with the Bluejays.
Notes-This was the first time since 1970 that the Tigers shutout a team on opening day.

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