October 9, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 1 comment
Another postseason series, another rainout and another quartet of games in as many days. Oh, and another right-handed slugger shelved – but this one for the season, and possibly for good. On Saturday the Tigers took Delmon Young off the ALCS roster. Today, right around the time they postponed Game 2, the club announced that [...]
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October 8, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 0 comments
The Tigers simply can’t deliver when given platinum opportunities to do so. Leaving the bases loaded in the first and fifth innings cost them Game 1 – a game in which they out hit the Rangers. Other thoughts: Justin Verlander certainly pitched well enough to win that game. Homeplate umpire Tim Welke had a wildly [...]
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October 8, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 0 comments
When Brennan Boesch was shelved for the year, the Tigers pounced on the opportunity to acquire Delmon Young. Now that Young will miss the ALCS due to a strained oblique, the Tigers can’t go out and get a bat to replace him on the roster. Nor can they simply slide the eternally convalescing Carlos Guillen [...]
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October 7, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured | 0 comments
It’s taken me about 22 hours to regain my regular heart rate but I think I’ve finally settled down. Was Game 5 the best Tigers game I’ve ever seen? I keep asking myself and I couldn’t decide, mainly because the competition features games with different circumstances and consequences: 1984 ALCS Game 3 Scenario: Tigers ahead [...]
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October 6, 2011
By Mike McClary in 2011 Postseason,Featured,Game Recaps | 1 comment
ESPN highlights available here. The Score: Tigers 3 – Yankees 2 The Gist: Jim Leyland’s bet on Don Kelly paid immediate dividends as Kelly gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead two batters into the game. Three batters in, Delmon Young gave Doug Fister a 2-0 cushion before he threw a pitch. Fister was terrific, as [...]
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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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