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The Score: Orioles 7 - Tigers 4
The Gist: Armando Galarraga gave up two, two-strike home runs and Bobby Seay refused to throw anything but a breaking ball to Luke Scott and the Tigers fell back to the .500 mark. The Tigers weren’t suffering from a lack of baserunners. In fact, they had bases loaded with [...]

At last some good (possible) news for those who want to save part of Tiger Stadium.
According to a news release on Michigan Senator Carl Levin’s Senate Web site:
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Carl Levin (D-MI) today announced the inclusion of $13,500,000 for Michigan transportation and community outreach projects in the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and [...]

“I know we’ve played over 90 games, but I still don’t know what kind of team we are. We’ve had spurts where we’ve played really well. We’ve had spurts where we’ve played really bad. But I think the pieces are here.”
Surprisingly, that’s not a quote from anyone in the Tigers organization, though it most certainly [...]

 

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Welcome to The Detroit Tigers Podcast, the podcast for Tigers fans, by Tigers fans. This is Episode #54, a 27-minute podcast about the Detroit Tigers recorded live from St. Clair Shores, Mich.
In this episode, we feature an all-star panel of Ian Casselberry of BlessYouBoys.com, John Milton and Doug Hill of The Daily Fungo, and Tom [...]

How’s this for uplifting?

In one-run games, such as today’s 6-5 loss, the Tigers are 12-14.
In games against A.L. Central opponents, the Tigers are 13-24.
Ugly right? Well, get a load of this:

When trailing after the eighth inning, the Tigers are 1-40.
In other words:

They can’t win the close ones.
They can’t beat division rivals.
They have no ninth-inning comebacks [...]

I’m breaking from the usual game recap format tonight to reluctantly raise a white flag on the 2008 season.
In fact, indulge me while I use a line from my favorite movie, “Midnight Run“, in which Robert DeNiro tells Charles Grodin:
“You’re in this mess because you’re in this mess. I didn’t put you in this [...]

Today’s wonderful come-from-ahead loss to the always pesky if not powerful Minnesota Twins was testimony, in a nutshell, why — to paraphrase Randolph and Mortimer Duke at the end of Trading Places while Billy Ray Valentine and Louis Winthorpe III were cornering the orange juice commodities market on them — Dave Dombrowski and the Tigers [...]

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The Score: Tigers 8 - Indians 6
The Gist:Of all the games I’ve been to at Comerica Park, admittedly not a lot, this one ranks near the top. The fans were asleep one moment and awoke only long enough to express anger for what appeared to be another shutout-after-blowout loss.
Poor Eddie [...]

The last we saw of Frank Tanana (in this 1987/Frank’s-birthday-mini-mini-series, at least), he pitched brilliantly against the Blue Jays at Exhibition Stadium only to watch the bullpen blow the game and put the Tigers farther behind Toronto in the A.L. East race.
Tanana faced the Jays 10 days later, this time at Tiger Stadium, and with [...]

The Score: Tigers 9 - Indians 2
The Gist: Justin Verlander was virtually unhittable — two hits, seven strikeouts over seven innings — and Miguel Cabrera showed serious muscle in going 4-for-4 with two homers as the Tigers rolled over the cratering Indians, 9-2. Marcus Thames hit a home run to right field — right field [...]