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.”
Click here to read the full article – By JOHN LOWE of Freep.com
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