Sweet stuff

I'd never had an opportunity to watch a no-hitter ...

Until tonight.

Kates and I had the Brewers-Tigers game on the TV while we ate supper. But it wasn't until we finished eating around the fifth inning, saw the line score and realized the classic that was unfolding ... At that point the score was just 1-0. Jeff Suppan had given up just two hits for the Brewers, including the Brandon Inge homerun and for the Tigers, Justin Verlander was holding the Brewers hitless ...

We watched as the Tigers made it 3-0 in the sixth and then added a fourth run in the seventh to knock Suppan from the game ...

In the top of the seventh, we watched as Corey Hart hit a liner to right field. Maglio Ordonez made a sliding catch, and at that point I knew. This is his night, I said to Kates. When guys are making plays like that, you know this is something special ...

And in the eighth, there was that play that everyone's talking about -- A hot ground ball up the middle, but Neifi Perez gloved it, tossed the ball to Placido Polanco at second base to get Bill Hall, who had walked, and Polanco fired to first for the inning-ending double play. Nice.

In the ninth, the game was over before the inning began. The crowd was roaring. Verlander was throwing in the triple digits and could not be stopped. 1-2-3 went the Brewers and the celebration began ...

I was all smiles as I watched it. Sure, I would've liked to see the Brewers win the game, but I do have that soft spot for the resurgent Tigers ...

And now here we are watching the Cubs take the Mariners into extra innings (in a game that should be over. C'mon! Bases loaded with no outs in the eighth inning and they couldn't get the go-ahead run in ... )

With the Brewers loss tonight and a Cubs win, Chicago moves another game closer to the Brewers in the standings in the wacky central. It's only June and we're already scoreboard watching ...

Update 12:14 a.m. ... That thing I said about the Cubs gaining a game on the Brewers tonight? Yeah. Not happening. Botched play at homeplate and the Mariners take the game in the 13th.