June 2007

STLtoday.com Blogs - Sports - Bird Land - The Difference Mike Maroth Can Make
If Sean Casey is considered the nicest guy in baseball, Mike Maroth may soon be the classiest guy. The outpouring of love for the guy is something to behold. And a nice debut will certainly help the Cards fans warm [...]

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Indianapolis 1 Toledo 9
Ramon Santiago had a 3 hit game. Mike Hessman was 2 for 2 with 3 walks. Chris Shelton and Jack Hannahan each had 2 hit, 1 walk games. Yorman Bazardo started and pitched 7 shutout innings allowing only 4 hits and a walk against 3 K’s.
Trenton 4 Erie 5
Jeff [...]

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PREGAME: The Tigers return home for the next couple weeks after getting through a 9 game DH-less stint with an 8-1 record.
The Tigers have struggled in the game after Sunday night games, what with getting in late and quite frankly probably being sleepy. But this time they are coming home, and it was [...]

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Mike Maroth - Detroit Tigers - Pitcher
Mike Maroth has a blog, who knew? (Hat tip mackavenuetigers.com and motownsports.com).

Breaking Down The Draft’s 1st Round: Picks 21-30 — The Hardball Times
Glowing review of Rick Porcello’s mechanics
(tags: rick-porcello)

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Indianapolis 6 Toledo 7
It was a walk off win for the Mud Hens with Jack Hannahan singling home 2 runs with 2 outs and the bases loaded. Mike Hessman hit his 22nd homer and Ryan Raburn added 2 doubles. Virgil Vasquez was knocked around for 6 runs on 8 hits, 2 walks, and [...]

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PREGAME: The Tigers and Braves take center stage on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. This hasn’t worked too well this year, and with tonight’s tilt coming at the end of a 9 game road trip it wouldn’t surprise me to see the team struggle.
For the Tigers it will be Andrew Miller who [...]

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Billfer note: Commenter Sam has been breaking the season down into 18 game chunks - because 18 games is 1/9th of the season. So each chunk is an inning of the season you see? He’s been leaving these in the comments, and really it deserves more. So without further ado: [...]

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THE GREAT GORKYS: Another CF rises among ranks in Tigers’ system
Nice profile on the Tigers other CF prospect.
(tags: gorkys-hernandez)

THE BUZZ: Scout’s take on Maybin
Rave reviews for Maybin
(tags: cameron-maybin)

The Colon incident
Jason Karnuth has agreed to work with Toledo PD in brining criminal charges against Roman Colon. Awkward situation for the Tigers who would like to [...]

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Indianapolis 3 Toledo 4
Ramon Santiago has been hitting well lately and added a 4 for 4 night. Chris Shelton hit his 6th homer. Corey Hamman started and allowed 1 run on 4 hits, 1 walk, and 4 K’s.
Trenton 2 Erie 7
Clete Thomas was 3 for 4 with a homer and a walk plus [...]

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PREGAME: And all of a sudden the Tigers have a 5 game win streak. What may be most remarkable, and some kind of record, is that in each of those games, the Tigers have had an inning in which they’ve batted around (or Tiger’d around as my 6 year old son calls it). [...]

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Indianapolis 5 Toledo 6 11 innings
Jack Hannahan pounded 2 homers and Timo Perez went 3 for 5. Jon Connolly was bumped up to Toledo and allowed 2 runs in 5 innings on 3 hits, 2 walks, and 5 K’s.
Trenton 9 Erie 6
Jackson Melian hit a 3 run homer and walked. Andres Torres added [...]

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