October 6, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured,Fungoes | 0 comments
Here we are, a couple of hours from the most nerve-wracking Tigers game since Game 163 and the club’s first winner-take-all game since the 1972 ALCS, as Lee Panas pointed out after Game 4. Let’s see what happens. (Not unlike to my approach to this post.) Jim Leyland this afternoon explained why we’ll see Max [...]
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October 5, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 0 comments
For your consideration: The last time the Tigers lost a postseason game by the score of 10-1, it also came in a Game 4 – of the 1968 World Series. The Tigers won Game 5 at Tiger Stadium, 5-3, behind Mickey Lolich. They also won Games 6 and 7, in case you’d forgotten. In Game [...]
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October 5, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 0 comments
Rosenthal: DET/NYY Game 5 Preview
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October 4, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 6 comments
In the first inning of Tuesday night’s ALDS Game 4, Yankees starter A.J. Burnett was on the ropes. He’d walked the bases loaded and with two out Don Kelly ripped what appeared to be a liner over Curtis Granderson’s head in centerfield. (Lord knows we still love Grandy in Detroit, but his reaction to that [...]
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October 4, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 0 comments
ESPN highlights available here. The Score: Yankees 10 – Tigers 1 The Gist: Compared to what most experts predicted, A.J. Burnett tossed a spotless game against the Tigers. He walked the bases loaded in the first inning and nearly saw the game slip away early when Don Kelly laced a ball to center that Curtis [...]
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October 4, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 1 comment
Five years ago this week, the Tigers sent a young, often frustrating righthander to the mound in the fourth game of the American League Division Series. With a win, no sure thing with the unpredictable starter, the Tigers would eliminate the Yankees and move on to the American League Championship Series against the Oakland A’s. Twenty-three-year-old Jeremy Bonderman was the Tigers’ starter [...]
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