Livan Hernandez had command of his pitches and the Tigers on this night. Magglio Ordonez hit a long home run in the second, and the team loaded the based with nobody out in the same inning, but then Ivan Rodriguez hit a short fly ball to right on which Miguel Cabrera did not attempt [...]

The Tigers swept the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for the first time since the beginning of the 1966 season when they won the opener on April 12 and swept a doubleheader on April 14. The Yankees returned the favor in the Bronx from August 26 – 28 of that year. The Tigers will never be swept [...]

Mystery reliever Francisco Cruceta has been assigned to Toledo.
The club has approximately two weeks to decide whether to put Cruceta on the 25-man big-league roster or to try to get him through waivers so he can stay in the minors.
It sure would be nice to see this guy pan out after all the international [...]

The Francisco Cruceta Saga began to feel like The Curious Case of Sidd Finch. Yeah, the guy has a rep for throwing cheese, but has anyone, you know, seen him pitch?
The answer to that soon will be “yes” — and it will be the Tigers who do the watchin’ after Cruceta’s visa problems have been [...]