October 4, 2009
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 0 comments
One game separates the Tigers’ from the postseason and the offseason. Call your shot by voting in the Fungo Pulse Check, available in the sidebar –> Here are the results from our previous poll: Who’s the Tigers’ 2009 MVP? Justin Verlander (50%, 18 Votes) Miguel Cabrera (42%, 15 Votes) Fernando Rodney (3%, 1 Votes) Edwin [...]
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October 4, 2009
By Mike McClary in Featured,Game Recaps | 0 comments
ESPN highlights available here. The Score: Tigers 5 – White Sox 3 The Gist: You couldn’t ask for more than Justin Verlander delivered on Sunday afternoon in the Tigers’ home finale of the as-yet-undecided 2009 season. Ryan Raburn went yard twice and the resurrected Magglio Ordonez went 4 for 4 to power most of the [...]
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October 4, 2009
By Mike McClary in Tweets | 0 comments
Email from the #Tigers promoting Tuesday's game has the teams lined up after pre-game intros…when Buddy Bell was the Tigers' manager! # The #Royals aren't exactly giving up and aren't exactly mounting a comeback. #curses # Under most circumstances, would #Tigers fans be delighted that Verlander and Pavano are involved in deciding their postseason fate? [...]
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October 4, 2009
By Mike McClary in Blast from the Past,Featured | 0 comments
This is the final installment in our series that looked back on the Tigers’ and Blue Jays’ epic fight for the 1987 American League East title. American League East Standings: October 4, 1987 Team Record Pct. GB Detroit 97-64 .619 – Toronto 96-65 .596 1 In the first six games one thing was constant: the [...]
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October 3, 2009
By Mike McClary in Fungoes | 0 comments
Just how inexcusable has Miguel Cabrera‘s disappearance been? A clean-up hitter who’s hitting one for his last 12, grounding into first-pitch double plays with regularity, is a gynormous problem, isn’t it? Everyone in the media piles on Aubrey Huff (who deserves every bit of the criticism) and to a lesser degree, Brandon Inge, but where’s [...]
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October 3, 2009
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 2 comments
Here’s what I can’t figure out. This Tigers club has never, not for a nanosecond, felt to me like a team of destiny. Nor is it the team of which you say “They’re never out of a game”, because, well, we saw plenty of games this summer that they were out of by the second [...]
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October 3, 2009
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 1 comment
The icy-cold fact is this: if the Tigers surrender the division lead — one they’ve held in some fashion since May 14 — on the last day of the season, it will be a one-of-a-kind collapse: a three-game cushion with four to play. This miserable experience for Tigers fans, so close to the division cough-up [...]
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