Karsch's Blog:Must win? No
But you can't tell us, all August, like Skip does, "this game is no more important than a game in April," than not emphasize a game like tonight. Justin Verlander gets 32, 33ish starts a year. Today is start #2. For the Detroit Tigers to win this division – he's gotta win close to OR at least 20. Well NOT winning your first two starts is not the way to get it done.
And furthermore, tonight they are facing an emergency starter, Brad Bergesen since Jeremy Guthrie has pneumonia.
It would be Hall of Fame lunacy to call game five a "must win." But for a team with an expectation of the post-season. The all the facts mentioned above leading into tonights game would make this a game a good team with legitimate post-season hopes wins five out of six times. A loss could be indicitive of how far away this team truely is.
