September 5, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 0 comments
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 [...]
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September 5, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 0 comments
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 [...]
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September 5, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,The Daily Breakfast | 0 comments
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 [...]
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September 4, 2011
By Mike McClary in Blast from the Past | 0 comments
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, [...]
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September 4, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 1 comment
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.
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September 4, 2011
By Nick Shlain in Featured,Fungoes | 0 comments
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 [...]
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