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April 2011

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Game 2011.14: Tigers at Athletics

15.04.2011 66 comments

Tonight in Oakland the Tigers have the chance to get to .500 for the first time this season, and in doing so get Jim Leyland his 1,500th career win. Taking the mound for Detroit will be Rick Porcello, who hopefully will get a night as chilly as last night (no, really, it makes sinkers sink [...]

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Minor League Wrap 4.14.2011

15.04.2011 4 comments

  Toledo 0, Columbus 1 (Indians) In the first game of a double header, Columbus somehow managed to beat the Hens with a solo shot from Grady Sizemore in the top of the third. Toledo couldn’t turn 8 hits into a single run and Thad Weber (RHP) took the loss. Although he lost, Weber had [...]

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Game 2011.13: Tigers at Athletics

14.04.2011 96 comments

The Tigers packed up Wednesday with a to-go order of walk-off under their belts to travel to Oakland for a 4-game series with their good friends the Oakland Athletics.  Good friends because the A’s are returning home from a road trip which saw them take consecutive series from the Twins and the White Sox. The [...]

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Minor League Wrap 4-12-2011

13.04.2011 4 comments

West Michigan 3, Great Lakes 2 (Dodgers) West Michigan trailed 0-2 throughout most of the game before West Michigan scored 3 runs on a 2RBI single from Ryan Enos (RF) and a RBI single from James Robbins (1B). Jeff Ferrell (RHP) started for the White Caps and gave up 2 runs (0 earned) on 4 [...]

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Game 2011.12: Rangers at Tigers

13.04.2011 41 comments

Short and sweet for a  W. (can someone please post the lineup, meetings all morning)

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Game 2011.11: Rangers at Tigers

12.04.2011 33 comments

Let’s try short and sweet for a W. 1. AJax – CF 2. Santiago – 2B 3. Raburn – LF 4. Cabrera – 1B 5. Martinez – C 6.  Boesch – DH 7. Peralta – SS 8. Inge – 3B 9. Wells – RF

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Minor League Wrap 4.10.2011

11.04.2011

West Michigan 13, Lansing 12 (Blue Jays) No pitcher had a good afternoon on Sunday; however, Bruce Rondon (RHP) picked up the win after pitching a scoreless 9th inning and striking out 2. The West Michigan SP, Kyle Ryan (LHP) gave up 5 ER on 6 hits in just 3 2/3 IP. Offensively, Dixon Machado [...]

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Game 2011.10: Rangers at Tigers

10.04.2011 26 comments

The smoking hot Rangers bring baseball’s best record into CoPa for a three game set of afternoon games.  The Rangers are 8-1 and lead the majors in Home Runs, Slugging, OPS, oh, and ERA to boot.  They recently took 2 out or 3 from Baltimore, in Baltimore, and the Orioles did not score a run [...]

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Minor League Wrap 4.9.11

10.04.2011

Happy Sunday to everyone! As mentioned earlier this year, my name is Nick D and I will be covering the minor leagues for DTW. I’m going to try to post updates daily including noteworty performers from the previous games. If there’s anything you’d like to have researched or written about, please let me know and [...]

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Game 2011.9: Royals at Tigers

10.04.2011 32 comments

This afternoon the Tigers try to bounce back from their first home loss of the season in the rubber game of the series with the Royals.  The Royals send Luke Hochevar to the mound to oppose Rick Porcello Speaking of Porcello, I happened to overhear one of those baseball science kind of conversations about the [...]

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Game 2011.8: Royals at Tigers

09.04.2011 34 comments

Today the Tigers look to continue unbeaten at home, as Phil Coke gets his 1st start of the season (and only 2nd of his career) against Bruce Chen and the Royals.  Whether or not Coke adjusts to the starting role will likely have a big effect on how this season plays out, and whether or [...]

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Game 2011.7: Royals at Tigers

08.04.2011 21 comments

  It’s Homecoming time in the D, as the Tigers bring baseball back to Detroit for the 2011 Home Opener. The weather is chllin’ (42 and rainy with 2 hours until the 3:05 start, but the rain is expected to go away) but the fans are grillin’ and I don’t expect any of that Yankee [...]

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