Wow what an exciting end to the Cardinals and Tigers game on Thursday afternoon.  Just hours after finishing up a late game on Wednesday night, the Cards and Tigers battled ten more innings and the Tigers were able to come away with the 3-2 victory and take two of three games in the series.

Clete Thomas walked with the bases loaded in the bottom of the tenth inning to score Curtis Granderson from third base.  Not the way you see a team win by very often, but it worked for the Tigers.  The game got to extra innings when Gary Sheffield hit a solo home run off Ryan Franklin in the bottom of the ninth inning.  Sheffield came up huge with that solo home run!

What is pretty funny is that Thomas walked with the bases loaded in the sixth inning as well.  Both of his rbi in the game via a walk with the bases loaded.  I wonder how often that has happened in a game?

Bobby Seay pitched the top of the tenth inning and ended up picking up the win for the Tigers.  Seay is now 1-1 on the season.  Starting pitcher Nate Robertson pitched 6 1/3 innings and gave up 11 hits and one run.  Robertson did a good job of getting out jams to let only one run score off 11 hits.  Todd Jones gave up three hits and one run in one inning of action as well.

Let’s see if the Tigers can carry over any momentum into their weekend series with the Colorado Rockies.

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The Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals battled until the very end after sitting through a 2.5 hour rain delay.  Gary Sheffield delivered the game winning hit in the bottom of the ninth inning as he singled to center and Clete Thomas scored the game winning run.  It was great to see the Tigers come back and score single runs in the final three innings as they never gave up in the game.

Carlos Guillen led the Tigers at the plate with a three run home run off Cardinals starter Kyle Lohse in the fourth inning.  Curtis Granderson, Magglio Ordonez, and Sheffield all finished the game with one rbi each.  The Tigers had chances to score more runs in the game but they left 20 runners stranded on the bases.

Todd Jones improved to 3-0 as he picked up the win after pitching the top of the ninth inning.  Tigers starting pitcher Armando Galarraga pitched 4 2/3 innings and gave up eight hits and five runs.  Four of the five runs were earned for Galarraga.  Zach Miner and Joel Zumaya pitched the next three innings and they gave up a combined two runs and walked five batters.  Bobby Seay was finally able to get out of that mess by striking out the final batter in the top of the eighth inning.

The Tigers and Cardinals will now battle it out once again as they play the rubber match of the three game series this afternoon.  It will be a quick turn around for everyone so it will be interesting to see how they come out and play.  We could expect a sluggish came, and one where they players just want to get it over with.

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The Detroit Tigers had their way with the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night as they beat won 10-2.  The Tigers knocked Rangers starter Vincent Padilla out of the game after only three innings and then went onto cruis to the 10-2 victory.

The Tigers hit three home runs in the game as the just dismantled the Rangers pitching staff.  Magglio Ordonez, Miguel Cabrera, and Ramon Santiago all hit home runs for the Tigers.  Santiago led the Tigers with three RBI.  Cabrera had two RBI while Clete Thomas, Ivan Rodriguez, Edgar Renteria, Brandon Inge, Ordonez, all had one RBI each.

Justin Verlander finally picked up his first win of the season in the game.  Verlandr tossed six inning allowing six hit and one run.  Zack Minor came in relief of Verland and allowed two hits and one run on only .1 of a inning.  Bobby Seay, Denny Bautista, and, Jason Grilli finished out the game for the Tigers without allowing a run.

The Tigers are now 7-14 on the season and need continue winning games if they want to get back into contention in the cental division.

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Evening without Frank Thomas on the big hitters list for the Toronto Blue Jays, the Detroit Tigers weren’t able to pull this one out.  The loss put the Tigers at a major league worst record of 6-13 for the season so far.

Clete Thomas went 3 for 5 with a RBI giving him 4 for the year and Miguel Cabrera picked up his 13th RBI with a double off of A.J. Burnett.

Nate Robertson came out tonight and pitched five innings for the Tigers before they brought in bringing in Zach Miller and Bobby Seay to finish the game.  This loss puts Nate Robertson at 0-2 for the season.

The Tigers will play the Blue Jays once again on Monday and try to salvage a tie in the four game series.  The Tigers are really going to have to battle if they want to pick up their seventh win of the season however.

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The Detroit Tigers cannot catch a break right now as they have started the season off with a 0-4 record.  On Friday, the White Sox got the better of the Tigers with a 8-5 victory.

Jason Grilli picked up the loss for the Tigers as the White Sox scored three runs in the 7th inning off of him.  Nate Robertson started the game for the Tigers and lasted five innings while he allowed seven hits and five earned runs.  Definately not the way Robertson wanted to start off the season.

Ivan Rodriguez led the Tigers with two RBI.  Jacque Jones and Clete Thomas chipped in with one RBI apeace.  Edgar Renteria had a terrible day at the plate going 0-5 and leaving right guys on base.  Right there is why the Tigers lost the game..

The Tigers will try to get their first win of the season on Saturday as Dontrelle Willis will make his first start with the Tigers.