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Placido Polanco's errorless streak, dead not even 24 hours ago, has resurrected like those zombies from the Thriller video, thanks to what some may say was home cookin' by the official scorer (since the scoring change came after the game, you could say that it was home cookin' with a crock pot). You may recall that Polanco was originally charged with an error on a throw to first that barely took inexperienced first baseman Marcus Thames off the bag. But then came the ever-present philosophical question: Can a throw pull one off a bag, if one is never on the bag to begin with?

Polanco originally was charged with an error, but after consulting with the umpires, official scorer Ron Kleinfelter changed the call and charged the error to first baseman Marcus Thames instead. Why the change?

It actually was quite simple. The error originally went to Polanco because his throw was wide and may have pulled Thames off the base. When first-base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt told Kleinfelter that Thames' wasn't on the base in the first place, the call had to be changed.

"It was not a good throw," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "But the throw should have been handled (without going off the bag)."

As for Thames, he said his problem wasn't with Kleinfelter's call, but rather with Wendelstedt's. "I thought I was on the base," Thames said. "He said I wasn't. Poli told me not to worry about it."

And now, Marcus definitely isn't going to worry about it, because the streak is back from the dead. Yet I ask you, would such care had been taken with this call if there wasn't an errorless streak on the line? Probably not. But that's the care one receives when they haven't made an error in 147 games. Thanks to Hunter Wendelstedt, that's 148 games ... and counting.

Previously on FanHouse:
Placido Polanco is Human (Temporarily)