'21-Tigers split with '89 Brew Crew

Game 1- '21-DET 4, '89-MIL 3
Dutch Leonard was masterful with his knuckler keeping the hard hitting Brewers off balance all day. Harry Heilman stroked a homer in the first inning and the Brewers played catch up the rest of the way, never quite getting enough.

Game 2 - '21-DET 5, '89-MIL 4
The highlight was a Ty Cobb homer, or was it. Cobb stroked a long fly to centerfield which the pbp stated "bounced over" the fence; the umpires determined it to be a two run homer to give the Tigers the lead.. Brewer manager Bill Keller wanted it called a ground rule double but umpire Ed Hokilie ruled that since a batter from 1921 was at the plate, he was entitled to hit under 1921 rules which determined that balls bouncing over or through the outfield fence were homeruns (the rule was changed in 1931) (wonder how many Ruth bounced into the seats in 1927?). Hokilie won his argument and the Tigers won the game.

Game 3 - '89-MIL 8, '21-DET 7
Billy Spiers, he of the 4 homeruns all season, smashed two, count them two, grand slams to lead the Brew Crew to their first victory although the Tigers came back from the first one to take a lead and nearly came back from the second grand slam.

Game 4 - '89-MIL 7 '21-DET 0
All Brewers all the time. In what will be probably be one of the rare instances of shut out ball in this league, Jaime Navarro held the Tigers scoreless before giving way for some relief help in the last innings. The Brewers hit Tiger pitching often and hard and coasted to a victory to split the series. The road teams won every game of this series. --contributed by Tom Davis--