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The Score: Tigers 4 - Rockies 3
The Gist: Dane Sardinha tripled for his first big-league hit and drove in two runs to power the Tigers to a sweep of the Rockies. Kenny Rogers allowed three runs in six innings and raised his record to one above the .500 mark. Marcus Thames went 3 for 4 [...]

The Score: Tigers 7 - Rockies 6
The Gist: Ryan Raburn hit his first career grand slam and Miguel Cabrera’s bottom-of-the-ninth laser to right center drove in the tying and winning runs to save Todd Jones’s neck. Saved, that is, from the choking hands of Justin Verlander or, quite possibly, Jim Leyland. Verlander allowed two runs [...]

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The Score: Tigers 7 - Rockies 1
The Gist: Eddie Bonine continues to impress in the most understated manner and Curtis Granderson — two triples, four hits and three runs scored on Friday — is darn-near hitting .300. Result? A more exciting brand of Tigers baseball. And how about Clete Thomas? [...]

The Score: Padres 6 - Tigers 2
The Gist: The Tigers bullpen — prime ingredient Fernando Rodney, a tablespoon of Fossum with a dash of Zumaya — wasted Eddie Bonine’s gem, extinguished the momentum from Placido Polanco’s clutch, game-tying homer in the eighth, and blew the Tigers chances to take the first game against a Padres [...]

The Score: Tigers 7 - Giants 2
The Gist: Armando Galarraga turned in his usual stellar performance and the Tigers pounced on a wildly ineffective Barry Zito to win the game and series from the Giants. Detroit chased the fading Zito with five runs in the first two innings and — surprise! — tacked on a [...]

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The Score: Tigers 5 - Giants 1
The Gist: Ryan Raburn delivers a long-overdue win for Kenny Rogers and Marcus Thames goes yard again. Rogers went seven strong and allowed just five hits, one walk and one run. Raburn’s pinch-hit homer in the eighth broke the 1-1 tie. Thames hit his 13th homer [...]

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The Score: Giants 8 - Tigers 6
The Gist: Things were tight but seemingly in control at AT&T Park on Monday night and then Jim Leyland called for Fernando Rodney. Fresh of the DL, Rodney surrendered a three-run jack to the Giants’ John Bowker and that’s all it took to wipe-out Justin Verlander’s [...]

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The Score: Tigers 12 - Dodgers 7
The Gist: The surging (?) Tigers got more timely hitting and some clutch homers by Marcus Thames and Miguel Cabrera on their way to a 12-7 win over the Dodgers. Eddie Bonine gave up a bushel — i.e., six — earned runs in 5.1 innings pitched [...]

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The Score: Tigers 5 - Dodgers 0
The Gist: Marcus Thames and Magglio Ordonez went deep and Armando Galarraga pitched another superb game and the Tigers have suddenly won four straight. Galarraga threw seven innings of shutout ball allowing just three hits and one walk. He struck out five. In addition to his [...]

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The Score: Tigers 5 - White Sox 1
The Gist: Now that’s Justin Verlander, folks: a four-hit complete game with no walks — a trifecta of undoability so far in 2008 for the Tigers staff. Marcus Thames sparked the offense with a three-run homer in the second. Curtis Granderson, Placido Polanco and Edgar [...]