June 2008

The oblique problem isn’t going away for Brandon Inge and he is now on the DL. Dane Sardhina’s contract was purchased from Toledo and he’ll back-up Pudge Rodriguez. I’d guess that Sardhina wouldn’t be put into the rotating catcher situation that Inge was in.
This will certainly limit some of Jim Leyland’s flexibility when [...]

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Toledo 12 Syracuse 2Matt Joyce enjoyed himself tonight with a grand slam, a three run homer, and a single. All the starters did well tonight with 7 of the 9 having multiple hits. Virgil Vasquez allowed 2 runs on 2 homers over 8 innings while fanning 5.
Erie 2 Trenton 6Kody Kirkland picked up [...]

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PREGAME: The Tigers welcome in the St. Louis Cardinals for their annual trip to Comerica Park (seriously, why do the Tigers never play at Busch?). It also marks the third consecutive series for the Tigers against a sainted city (the others being San Diego and San Francisco for those with uber short [...]

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Tonight the Tigers will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. There’s a jersey giveaway and opportunities to get autographs from members of the ‘68 team. Details are below:
On Tuesday, the first 10,000 fans in attendance will receive a commemorative 1968 Tigers 40th Anniversary replica road [...]

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Toledo 4 Syracuse 3
Fernando Seguignol and Erick Almonte had 2 hits each. Aquilino Lopez went 3 innings in his start, striking out 5 against no walks. He allowed 3 hits and 2 runs. Francisco Cruceta allowed 2 hits and a walk in 2 innings while fanning 3. Ian Ostlund struck out [...]

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UPDATE: Sheffield has been reinstated and Larish has been optioned to Toledo.
There’s been no official word from the Tigers yet, but it appears that Gary Sheffield is Detroit bound. According to the Lakeland Ledger, Sunday’s game was Sheffield’s last rehab outing and he left to join the team.
During Sheffield’s rehab stint [...]

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Toledo 1 Scranton 10
Dane Sardhina doubled, and that was half of the hits for the Hens today. Chris Lambert was knocked around for 7 runs in 3.1 innings. Clay Rapada allowed a hit in 1.1 innings while fanning 2.
Erie 6 Harrisburg 3
Ryan Roberson had a pinch hit homer. Kody Kirkland also homered. [...]

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I don’t know if this is fake or not, but regardless it is pretty damn cool…

UPDATE: It’s fake and a gatorade ad, but very cool regardless.

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PREGAME: The Tigers rap up their road portion of interleague today in San Diego. The pitching match-up will be Justin Verlander and Randy Wolf.
Miguel Cabrera is Hungry Like A Wolf (I know, it’s awful) with 22 career plate appearances, 10 hits, 2 homers, and 3 walks against Randy. Lefties have been hitting [...]

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Toledo 5 Scranton 9
Fernando Seguignol was 2 for 4. Brent Clevlen went 1 for 3 with 2 walks. Yorman Bazardo was hammered for 5 runs on 7 hits and 3 walks in 1.1 innings.
Harrisburg 4 Erie 3
Ryan Roberson homered and singled in 4 at-bats. Wilkin Ramirez was sent back to Erie with [...]

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PREGAME: The Tigers will look to bounce back from another late inning collapse. They’ll send out Nate Robertson who pitched 6 innings of shut down ball spanning a rain delay his last time out.
The Padres send out Cha Seung Baek. You may remember him from a Seattle Mariner beat-down. Baek got [...]

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