Archive for April, 2011

April 12, 2011

Fungo Flash Poll: What’s driving you nuts the most during the Tigers’ sluggish start?

April 11, 2011

Tigers Today: April 11, 2011

Tigers’ Record: 3-6, Tied for 4th, 4 GB Cleveland Today’s Game Tigers vs. Rangers | 1:05 p.m. ET – Comerica Park| On the air: FSD/AM 1270 and 97.1 FM Pitching Matchup Justin Verlander (1-0, 3.86 ERA) vs. Alexi Ogando (1-0, 0.00 ERA) Yesterday’s Results Royals 9 – Tigers 5 W: Luke Hochevar L: Rick Porcello [...]

April 10, 2011

Sunday Snacks: April in the D Edition

A few overdue thoughts as I work the previous-channel button on my remote, switching between the Tigers and Wings games. When a few specific things occur, I know for certain the baseball season is in full bloom — eight games in or not. Two of these things have already taken place in the past 24 [...]

April 4, 2011

TweetCap Game 4: Orioles 5 – Tigers 1

Three bad pitches by Rick Porcello doomed the Tigers and pushed the Orioles to a 4-0 start. Remember the 2004 Tigers? They started 4-0 too.

April 4, 2011

Tigers Today: April 4, 2011

Tigers’ Record 1-2; 4th place, 1.5 GB Royals Today’s Game Tigers @ Orioles | 3:05 p.m. ET – Baltimore | On the air: FSD/AM 1270 and 97.1 FM Pitching Matchup Rick Porcello (0-0) vs. Jake Arrieta (0-0) Yesterday’s Results Tigers 10 – Yankees 7 W: Max Scherzer (1-0) L: Phil Hughes (0-1) HR: Miguel Cabrera [...]

April 4, 2011

TweetCap: Game 3 | Tigers 10 – Yankees 7

Brennan Boesch was perfect at the plate: 4 for 4, 4 runs, 4 RBI, and Max Scherzer was just this side of awful: 9 hits and 6 ER in 5 innings.

April 3, 2011

TweetCap Game 2: Yankees 10 – Tigers 5

Note: I meant to start these on Opening Day but, well, never mind. Rather than post the game recaps as I’ve done in the past couple of seasons, in 2011 I’ll recap the games Twitter style; that is, in 140 characters. Here’s our first installment: Brad Penny felt great. A.J. Burnett felt awful. Somewhere in [...]