Archive for April 21st, 2008

April 21, 2008

The Doug Report: Back from Toronto Edition

Hello Everyone,
Did you miss me?
The Family Hill is fresh off a Toronto vacay where we were able to catch the Tigers-Jays on Saturday. Suffice to say it wasn’t the best of the four days to be in attendance at the Rogers Centre, what with Miguel Cabrera kicking the game away on what should be an [...]

April 21, 2008

Game 20: Armando Does It Again

ESPN highlights available here.

The Gist: While he wasn’t as sharp as his Tigers debut in Cleveland last week, Armando Galarraga gave the Tigers another solid outing in the finale at SkyDome — or whatever — 5-1, to earn a split against the Blue Jays. The bullpen was superb though Todd Jones allowed a ninth-inning home [...]

April 21, 2008

Jim Leyland on ESPN’s PTI “Five Good Minutes” Segment

From Wednesday…

April 21, 2008

Game 19: The Hex-stein Lives On

ESPN highlights available here.

The Gist: The Tigers lost 5-3 to the Toronto Blue Jays Sunday at Rogers Centre. Nate Robertson showed no sign of turning the corner for the Tigers and allowed five runs on eight hits in five innings of work to take the loss. Clete Thomas led the Tigers offense with three [...]

April 21, 2008

Happy Birthday, Aquilino Lopez

The Tigers’ #45 turns 33 today.
Also celebrating today is Tigers short-timer Les Lancaster.
Yesterday was Milt Wilcox’s 58th (!) birthday.

April 21, 2008

Polanco Day-to-Day, But Aren’t We All?

According to Mario and Rod on the telecast, Placido Polanco’s back will not send him to the DL. The MRI showed no damage.
Update: The Freep story