Rookie pitcher Porcello gets his game face on for Tigers’ showdown
The hopes of the Tigers and their fans for a first-place finish rest with a pitcher who wasn’t born the last time the Tigers won a regular-season championship.
Rick Porcello, the Tigers’ 20-year-old rookie right-hander, will start Tuesday’s one-game playoff for the American League Central title in Minnesota.
The tiebreaker became set Sunday when the Tigers and Twins each won their last scheduled game of the regular season.
Porcello will try to give the Tigers their first division title since 1987, one year before he was born.
As other Tigers enjoyed their season-saving 5-3 win over Chicago, Porcello wore his unsmiling game face. He was revving up to start the Tigers’ first-ever tiebreaker for a postseason spot.
Click here to read the full article – By JOHN LOWE of Freep.com
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Justin Verlander comes through at most crucial time
This is when seasons are defined and careers are shaped. This is when the best have to deliver, or you’ve got no shot.
The Tigers were teetering, no doubt about it. And then in the biggest game of the year, their best stepped up and saved the season. Am I being overly dramatic? Not really.
Justin Verlander pitched with nasty feistiness Tuesday night, and that’s where it started for the Tigers, just a few hours after their toughest loss of the season. Miguel Cabrera and Magglio Ordonez had the big early hits and the Tigers temporarily quelled gigantic pressure with a 6-5 victory over the Twins, after dropping the opener of the doubleheader, 3-2 in 10 innings.
Click here to read the full article – By Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News
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Tigers watching the scoreboard, calendar
The Tigers are back to scoreboard-watching for a week now that they’ve left Minnesota, but they’re also watching the calendar as the games count down.
The Tigers didn’t go to Minnesota with the goal of simply avoiding disaster, but as they left the Metrodome for the final time on Sunday with one win out of the three-game series, they could be excused if they breathed a quiet sigh of relief.
They didn’t put away the race the way they would’ve hoped, but now 2 1/2 games up with 13 games to play, they didn’t let it slip into a neck-and-neck race, either. Their lead is slimmer than it had been on Thursday, but the Twins have one fewer games in which to catch them.
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Tigers stay focused on series finale
The Tigers avoided facing Zack Greinke in their series finale at Kansas City last week, and lost the game. Greinke had been pushed back.
Likewise, the Blue Jays pushed back Roy Halladay a day, avoiding a meeting with Detroit on Monday. The Tigers had to come back in the ninth to win that one.
They couldn’t avoid facing Greinke again, but the way their past series finales have gone, maybe that isn’t totally a bad thing.
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Tigers add Bonderman, 5 others to roster
Big-league teams can expand their rosters from 25 to 40 players beginning Tuesday — the day of the annual Sept. 1 roster expansion. The Tigers announced today they will add six players, all from their Triple-A Toledo farm club:
Pitcher Jeremy Bonderman (who has been pitching in relief on an injury-rehab assignment at Toledo). In his only appearance of the season for the Tigers, Bonderman lost a start in Chicago. “I’ll use him out of the bullpen,” manager Jim Leyland said. “There is no chance he will be starting. If there’s a spot where three of the next four hitters are righties, that might be a good fit for him. We’re bringing him (up) because we think he can contribute, not because it’s Jeremy Bonderman.”
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Off DL, Guillen making big impact
Carlos Guillen isn’t feeling completely like his old self yet after his April left shoulder injury, and he isn’t swinging like his old form. Still, his swings are producing some of his old power when he connects.
A month after Guillen returned at long last from the disabled list, his bat is producing numbers for a Tigers lineup in desperate need of it, even with Guillen’s limitations. Though his recent stats get lost in the season totals thanks to his slow start in April, his three-run home run Monday against the Angels was his sixth homer in 28 games and 100 at-bats since his return, to go with 19 RBIs and a .280 average entering Tuesday.
Even compared to his completely healthy days, those are impressive totals. He has some theories behind them, but it doesn’t have to do with feeling he’s at full strength quite yet.
Click here to read the full article – By Jason Beck of MLB.com
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Thomas hopes to cut down on K’s
Clete Thomas hasn’t been making much contact as of late. He’s stuck out at least once in 10 of his past 11 games, recording seven multi-strikeout showings over that span.
Thomas has been getting hits when the Tigers have needed them, though. “He needs to shorten up,” said manager Jim Leyland, whose Tigers open a three-game set against the Angels on Monday, “but he has knocked in the winning run in our last two wins.”
Leyland, of course, would like to see more hits and fewer strikeouts from his young outfielder. Leyland said Thomas has been shortening his swing one day, then lengthening it again the next.
Click here to read the full article – By Adam Loberstein of MLB.com
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