Tigers’ Record: 32-29, 2nd place; 3.5 GB of Minnesota Today’s Game Tigers vs. Pirates | 1:05 p.m. ET – Comerica Park | On the air: FSD/AM 1270 and 97.1 FM Pitching Matchup Armando Galarraga (2-1, 2.77 ERA) vs. RHP Jeff Karstens (1-2, 4.81 ERA) Yesterday’s Results Tigers 4 – Pirates 3 W: Phil Coke (4-0) [...]

Interleague play is back! What’s that? You haven’t missed it? As the Pirates come to town let’s do an interleague reset: Since interleague play started in 1997, the Tigers have compiled a 124-108 record, 57-33 in interleague games at Comerica Park. This year they’re 1-2. In a related note, here’s the good news coming into [...]

Here are a few items I’ve stumbled upon while enjoying last night’s rare Tigers win at U.S. Cellular Field: Baseball Prospectus‘s David Laurilla interviewed Dallas Braden and asked the A’s lefty about Armando Galarraga: DL: Armando Galarraga threw just 88 pitches in his masterpiece, about 20 fewer than you threw in yours. Given his efficiency, [...]

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Welcome to The Detroit Tigers Podcast. This is Episode #111 a 60-minute podcast about the Detroit Tigers recorded live from Scottsdale, Ariz., and Asheville, N.C. In this episode we touch on: The Armando Galarraga/Jim Joyce fallout Dreadful play against the Royals The departure of Adam Everett The amateur draft …and much more. Show Notes Links [...]

Armando Galarraga‘s brilliance on Wednesday night has been tarnished enough by a bad call. Any move by official scorers, Major League Baseball, the Players’ Union or Amnesty International to “correct” the umpiring gaffe and hand Galarraga a perfect game 18 hours later will tarnish his performance even more. Isn’t one asterisk enough? Seriously, how can [...]

What has gotten lost in all the calls for do-overs and commissioner over-rides is the remarkable precision with which Armando Galarraga pitched against the Indians Wednesday night. A quick look at the bottom-line stats are stunning on their own: 88 pitches 67 strikes 21 balls As ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick points out, that pitch count includes [...]

It’s pretty clear that the Tigers don’t have big plans for newly acquired Billy Buckner. Yesterday Dave Dombrowski described the right hander’s role in the organization thusly: “He gives us depth at Toledo.” Didn’t they say the same thing about poor Mike Hessman? Given Buckner’s numbers — a 6.56 ERA for the Diamondbacks in 29 [...]