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Detroit Tigers, 19-12, 1st Place (1.5 ahead of KC). This afterevening the Tigers make up their rained out game from Tuesday, as they play the plasticine game in the two-game season series against the Washington Nationals. I predict that the Nationals will strike early, and score maybe three runs in the first.  The play here [...]

Again it didn’t come easy, but the Tigers are right where they wanted to be, taking the first two games of the four-game series with the struggling Astros, thanks partly to contributions by the slumping Alex Avila and by everyone’s favorite bench donkey, Don Kelly (his working a 1-2 count into a walk ahead of [...]

The Tigers travel to Houston to take on the newly-American-League Astros, who have so far been welcomed into the AL to the tune of a league-worst 8-20 record. The probable pitchers for the series are: May 2 8:10  Porcello vs. Lyles May 3 8:10  Fister vs. Norris May 4 7:10  Scherzer vs. Harrell May 5 [...]

Well, what to do on a rainy day with no baseball? If you are Dave Dombrowski, sign Jose Valverde, that’s what. Jim Leyland didn’t waste any time either: Valverde is coming back as The Closer (“one thing you know about him, he’s done it before”), and you can expect the bullpen to settle into The [...]

After a three-HR assault, a three-hit six-inning Verlander gem, and a three-K 9th by Joaquin Benoit to end some bullpen drama, the Tigers go into today with a chance to start their only West Coast trip with a series win. The Tigers give the call to Anibal today. Sanchez has had two strong outing so [...]