Archive for September, 2011

September 5, 2011

Labor Day Leftovers, SweetSpot Style

In case you missed it, ESPN.com’s SweetSpot blog has featured a nice collection of Tigers-focused posts over the past few days: Dave Schoenfield lists his unsung heroes, among them is Jhonny Peralta: I’ve sung Peralta’s praises on several occasions, but everyone just keeps talking about this Verlander guy. All Peralta has done is hit over [...]

September 5, 2011

Lost in Last Night’s Drubbing, Scherzer Dazzled

Buster Olney wrote a nice piece this morning on Miguel Cabrera and his ascendence from skinny kid in Venezuela to perennial MVP candidate. He also highlighted Max Scherzer’s terrific performance last night: Max Scherzer threw seven shutout innings, the 18th time in his 29 starts he’s allowed two earned runs or less. Also from ESPN [...]

September 5, 2011

The Labor Day Breakfast

Happy Labor Day and a warm salute to the working men and women of the U.S. A special hat-tip to my Dad who helped build so many structures around Detroit — including the Ren Cen. Leading Off: The Tigers completed a deliciously emphatic sweep of the White Sox last night, 18-2. Alex Avila collected four [...]

September 4, 2011

Fungo Flash Poll: Who Should be the Tigers’ Second Baseman the Rest of the Season?

September 4, 2011

A Look at Tigers’ Big Comebacks

From Elias Sports Bureau: The White Sox led the Tigers, 8-1, in the fifth inning of Saturday’s game before Detroit came back to win, 9-8. It was the second-largest comeback win that the Tigers have ever had at Comerica Park; on Sept. 27, 2003, they rallied from eight runs down to defeat the Twins, 9-8, [...]

September 4, 2011

Listen to Dan Dickerson’s Calls from Saturday’s Comeback Win

Listen below to Dan’s call of Ryan Raburn’s 2-run HR Listen below to Dan’s call of Miguel Cabrera’s walk off HR Courtesy of WXYT, of course.

September 4, 2011

Tigers Finish White Sox 9-8 in Dramatic Comeback

Saturday evening, Tigers utility man and fan base lightning rod Ryan Raburn helped almost mathematically eliminate the vaunted preseason AL Central favorite Chicago White Sox and did it in spectacularly dramatic fashion. It’s been quite some time (about four months) since anyone thought the White Sox were poised to make a run at taking this [...]