Placido Polanco Is Human

Well, you all know the old saying: When it rains, it pours. Man is it pouring in Detroit right now. It's pouring so much that one man has even built an ark and is loading animals on it as we speak. Not only are the Tigers incapable of winning a game, (or hitting the baseball, or tying their shoes, or standing upright...) but they're also blowing record streaks.

Remember last season when Placido Polanco set the record for consecutive games by a second baseman without an error? Well, that streak came to an end at 186 games on Tuesday afternoon in Boston.

Polanco received this error when third baseman Miguel Cabrera couldn't pull off a catch-and-tag in one motion on sliding Manny Ramirez.

Ramirez had boomed a Kenny Rogers pitch to the deepest part of Fenway Park, the triangle in deep right-center. Polanco took center fielder Brandon Inge's strong relay and fired a one-hopper to third as Ramirez bid for a triple. Cabrera tried to backhand the ball and tag Ramirez all in one motion.

Given the description of the play, I didn't see it, I'm not sure Polanco really deserved the error. The throw got to Cabrera, and it sounds like he was able to catch it, but messed it up when he tried to catch the ball and tag Ramirez out on the play. If an error even deserved to be called, and I don't think it should have, then Cabrera should have been tagged with it.

Too bad this game wasn't in Detroit, because Polanco probably would have gotten the benefit of the hometown scorekeeper. Though if the game had been in Detroit, there's an off chance that Polanco and his teammates wouldn't have made it out of Comerica with their lives. So maybe in the end, this error was the best thing that could have happened to Placido.