Miguel Cabrera has now had two three-homer games in his career, and the Tigers have lost both of them. I really do think Tigers fans take Cabrera for granted. He deserves all the love ESPN was giving him about just how good he is. This is actually the first time I’ve seen several players from [...]
The Tigers fell for the seventh time in the last 11 games, as another starter failed to make it through three innings. Anibal Sanchez was the latest victim, as he struggled mightily in his short outing and gave up a whopping nine hits and six runs—5 earned—in only 2.2 IP. Sanchez’s ERA jumped from 2.05 [...]
Rick Porcello did enough, throwing 5.2 IP of 5 hit, 1 run, 1 walk, 6 K ball, before turning it over to the ‘pen, and the Tigers managed two runs in the fifth to take a 2-1 decision against one of the best teams in baseball. Porcello, who was coming off four straight quality starts, [...]
There’s an adage in baseball that you can’t predict it, and every so often we get a game that reminds us of how true that actually is. Tonight was definitely one of them. What had been billed as the pitcher’s duel of the season turned out to be a dud. Yu Darvish was alright – [...]
It had to happen eventually. As delightful as a 7-0 season sweep of the Houston Astros sounded, it was not meant to be as they blew a 4-1 lead, the bullpen imploded, and Jim Leyland made a series of debatable decisions as the Astros grabbed a 7-5 victory over the Tigers – barely. As it [...]
After a shaky first couple innings, command-wise, and an early deficit, Doug Fister settled down, kept the damage to a minimum, and waited for the Tigers’ offense to come to life. Fister threw seven innings of two run, five hit, seven strikeout ball and helped the Tigers to their second win in a row, while [...]
Well, Jose Valverde was bound to blow a save at some point. I still haven’t decided what my opinion of the long-term effects of Valverde’s presence will be, but at this point, there isn’t much data to go on. We’ll have to see what happens next time. This time, however, Valverde’s command was just not [...]
The Tigers will probably be very happy their stay in the nation’s capitol is a short one as they were again defeated by the Washington Nationals 5-4. The Tigers, unlike last night, found themselves in a very early hole, with old nemesis Denard Span starting the fire with a leadoff double and a series of [...]
We all got a bit spoiled watching the Tigers beat up on Houston pitching. It was a bit of a rude awakening tonight as they were shut down by Nationals stud Jordan Zimmermann in a 3-1 defeat. The better part of the evening saw Zimmermann locked in a pitchers’ duel with Anibal Sanchez, and the [...]
I’ve spent a lot of time at Fifth Third Field recently, and that means I haven’t seen much of the Tigers during that time, until today. It turns out that if I was only going to see one game in the series, this was a pretty good one to see. Pretty much anytime Justin Verlander [...]
This one took a very long time. Four hours and fifty minutes, to be exact. And a fair amount of that time was spent, for me anyway, in quite the angry mood, because the Tigers simply could not break through against the Houston Astros bullpen. It wasn’t that the bullpen was pitching extraordinarily well. The [...]
