2013 Season

38-29, 1st place, 4.5 games up. Which is the 2nd biggest division lead in the majors. The Tigers took care of business in Minnesota taking the three game series with the win yesterday. Good teams have to win series against no so good teams. So good job, boys. A much more formidable opponent rolls into [...]

Detroit Tigers: 37-28, 1st Place (4.5 ahead of Cleveland).  Who the (expletive) should Leyland close with? (to quote the skipper). Well it looks like the answer, for now, is going to be Jose Valverde, who is still the closer. (Although it should be noted that Valverde’s appearance was not a save situation, and that Phil [...]

36-27, first place 5.5 GA, winning streak at one. Jackson Alburquerque Worth Commenter mcb brought up an interesting point about the importance of Torii Hunter’s play Monday night on the Salvador Perez 2-run triple. I agree that a conventional back-up of CF Avisail Garcia would have held Perez to a double. Two runs would have [...]

34-26, 4.5 games up on Cle. (never mind the bad digital editing in the image above) Another good win for the Tigers yesterday afternoon, another poor showing for Valverde. Fielder’s bases clearing double put the Tigers in the lead for good, and Ricky P turned in his 3 straight quality start (and 7th in 10 [...]

32-26, 1st place, 2.5 games up on Cle. Well, the Tigers are a frustrating 4-6 over their last 10, including 3 games where they failed to score a run in the first 9 innings of the game, but yet they managed to pick up a game on the struggling Tribe, losers of four straight. In [...]