From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Game 79: Twins at Tigers

30.06.2007 26 comments

PREGAME: Today will be a battle of AL Central rookies with Kevin Slowey going up against Andrew Miller. Miller won’t be fazed by national TV if his start last Sunday was any indication. He pitched 6 shutout innings allowing only 4 hits and 2 walks. Kevin Slowey will be making his 6th start. He’s allowed [...]

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A different look at Andrew Miller

30.06.2007 14 comments

On Sunday, June 24th Andrew Miller took center stage on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball and promptly pitched 6 shut out innings. Miller only allowed 4 hits and 2 walks and was never really threatened. Was this a dominant performance by a young stud pitcher, or just another day at the office for the slumping Braves? [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap 6/29/07

29.06.2007 1 comment

Ottawa 2 Toledo 1 Chris Shelton doubled and walked and netted the only extra base hit. Virgil Vasquez pitched a 3 hitter over 8 innings, but one of them was a homer . Erie 7 Bowie 2 Matt Joyce and Nick McIntyre homered. Jackson Melian had 3 hits and Clete Thomas had 2 hits and [...]

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Game 78: Twins at Tigers

29.06.2007 20 comments

PREGAME: It’s a gorgeous night in Detroit for what should be a phenomenal pitching match-up. It will be Justin Verlander taking on Johan Santana. This is the 3rd time that the Tigers have faced Santana this season. They haven’t lit him up by any means, but they did push across a couple runs each time [...]

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Zach Miner is back

29.06.2007 2 comments

Zach Miner has rejoined the team for the DL. To make room the Tigers have put Tim Byrdak on the DL with tendonitis. And the revolvling door continues in the bullpen. Byrdak has really struggled in his last 4 outings with batters posting a 409/435/909 line against him including 7 extra base hits. Whether it [...]

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links for 2007-06-29

29.06.2007 3 comments

SI.com – Writers – John Donovan: Ordonez making case for MVP – Thursday June 28, 2007 5:08PM John Donovan profiles Maggs (tags: magglio-ordonez)

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Tigers Minor League Wrap – 6/28/07

28.06.2007

Ottawa 4 Toledo 3 Ryan Raburn had 3 K’s, but he also hit his 16th homer of the season. Chris Shelton went 1 for 4. Jon Connolly lasted 5 2/3 innings allowing 4 runs on 9 hits, 1 walk, and 1 strike out. Erie 10 Bowie 2 That’s a lot of Erie offense for a [...]

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Game 77: Rangers at Tigers Redux

28.06.2007 74 comments

PREGAME: Nothing’s really changed, same starting pitchers (Kenny Rogers and Kevin Millwood) and all only it’s 20 degrees cooler, half the humidity, and all the clouds are pretty instead of ominous. Oh yeah, and I’ll be at there today. For more info check out BR’s game preview Game Time 1:05pm POSTGAME: Beautiful day for a [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap – 6/27/07

27.06.2007

Ottawa 2 Toledo 5 Ramon Santiago had 3 more hits and is now hitting .271. Kevin Hooper and Timo Perez each had 2hits. Jack hannahan had a single and 2 walks. Ron Chiavacci went 7 innings allowing 2 runs on 7 hits, no walks, and 4 K’s. Zach Miner threw a perfect inning of relief [...]

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Game 77: Rangers at Tigers

27.06.2007 30 comments

PREGAME: Time to get rid of that case of the uglies that the Tigers have picked up since returning home. Kenny Rogers will try to replicate his debut outing in Atlanta. Meanwhile the Tigers will try to replicate their last effort against Kevin MIllwood. Marcus Thames is in for Craig Monroe today and Neifi Perez [...]

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Of Mountains and Molehills

26.06.2007 11 comments

Where I overreact and overthink a couple of topics… Maggs the spray hitter? Not that I’m complaining about a guy who is leading the all the Majors in hitting, but do you think that Ordonez is focusing on going for the batting title? His last 8 hits have all been singles, and it seems the [...]

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Game 76: Rangers at Tigers

26.06.2007 117 comments

PREGAME: Hopefull it’s a bounce back night, both for the Tigers who played a clunker last night, and Nate Robertson who returns to the rotation after a stint on the DL and a really bad month of May. Nate’s last start was against the Rangers when he allowed 6 runs without retiring a batter. I [...]

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