The Detroit Tigers were shutout for the first six innings on Monday night but then scored four runs in the seventh and eighth innings to come from behind and beat the Texas Rangers 8-7. With the big victory over the Rangers, the Tigers are now just three games under .500 at 61-64.

The Tigers got the scoring started in the seventh inning when Gary Sheffield hit a two run home run which was then followed by a Brandon Inge rbi single. Curtis Granderson then hit a rbi triple that scored Inge and the Tigers were up 4-3.

Onto the eighth inning where four more Tigers runs would be scored. Edgar Renteria reached base on an error and Sheffield scored on the play. Granderson then had another triple, this time with the bases loaded to score three more runs. Granderson had a huge day at the plate as he finished with four rbi.

Kenny Rogers pitched six innings to get the win. Rogers gave up eight hits and three runs while striking out seven and walking four batters. Kyle Farnsworth was charged with four hits and four runs in the eighth inning when the Rangers scored for runs to make the game very interesting. Fernando Rodney recorded the final out of the eighth inning and then pithced the ninth to pick up his fifth save of the season.

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The Detroit Tigers held off the Cleveland Indians for a 8-5 victory on Tuesday night.  It was a very good win for the Tigers in Cleveland as the improved to 54-52 record on the season.  Keep on winning and good things are going to happen for this team that is for sure!

Armando Galarraga recorded the win to improve to 9-4 on the year.  Galarraga tossed 5 1/3 innings to get the win as he allowed five hits and three runs.  Galarraga did strikeout three batters while walking two.  The backend of the bullpen didn’t throw the ball very good as Joel Zumaya and Fernando Rodney both gave up runs late in the game.

Miguel Cabrera and Brandon Inge both hit home runs for the Tigers at the plate.  Inge finished the game with three rbi while Gary Sheffield and Edgar Renteria both had two rbi.  Cabrera finished things up a the plate with his one rbi on his solo home run.

The Tigers will face off against the Indians again on Wednesday as they try to take the series lead.

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The Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 7-1 on Tuesday night as they beat the Royals for the second straight night.  The game was interrupted in the 7th inning by rain and both teams had to wait 2 hours and 19 minutes before they could play the final couple of innings.

Placido Polanco and Magglio Ordonez both led the team with two rbi each.  Polanco had a solo home run and then a rbi groundout to account for both of his rbi.  Ordonez had two rbi singles in the game for his rbi’s.  Miguel Cabrera, Matt Joyce, and Gary Sheffield all chipped in with one rbi each as well.

Kenny Rogers picked up the win and is now 8-6.  Rogers threw six innings while only giving up four hits and one run.  It was a very good start for Rogers who pitched a great game.  Fernando Rodney pitched two innings after Rogers left the game and struckout four batters while only giving up one hit.  Joel Zumaya pitched a scoreless 9th inning to finish off the Royals.

The Tigers will now go for the three game sweep Wednesday afternoon.  The players more then likely will be a little tired as they will have a short turnaround.  If they can pull off the sweep, it will be the teams fourth straight win!

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The Detroit Tiges lost the first game of a four game series to the Minnesota Twins on Thursday afternoon 7-6 in 11 innings of action.  Tigers reliever Freddy Dolsi gave up a solo home run in the 11th inning to Justin Morneau and that was the knockout punch in the game.  The Tigers did have the tying run at second base in the bottom of the inning but was unable to get the run to extend the game.

Dolsi took the loss and is now 1-3 on the year.   It was just a bad pitch by Dolsi and he took the punishment which was the loss.  Kenny Rogers had started the game for the Tigers and pitched the first seven innings of the game.  Rogers left the game after giving up nine hits and three runs.  Once Rogers left the game, Fernando Rodney gave up a run while Todd Jones let two more runs score.  Jones let both runs score in the ninth inning when the Tigers blew the save.

Ramon Santiago led the Tigers at the plate with two rbi but was followed by Curtis Granderson, Placido Palanco, Jeff Larish, and Matt Joyce who all had one rbi each.  Joyce’s rbi game via the long ball as he went deep in the fourth inning.

The Tigers will try to even the series up on Friday when they will send Armando Galarraga to the mound.

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The Detroit Tigers played a terrible game on Wednesday afternoon as they were shut out by the Minnesota Twins by the score of 7-0.  The pitching staff sucked and so did the offense.  The offense was only able to record five hits in the game and struggled all game long.  I was really thinking the Tigers could take two our of three from the red hot Twins but boy was I wrong.

Eddie Bonine lost his first game of the year and is now 2-1.  Bonine only lasted 2 2/3 innings as he gave up seven hits and allowed five runs to score.  I should mention that only two of those five runs were actually earned however.

Casey Fossum pitched 4 1/3 innings after Bonine left the game and he didn’t have much luck either.  Fossum gave up two more runs on four hits.  Fernando Rodney was finally able to pitch a scoreless inning in the eighth but it was a little to late to stop the bleeding.

Placido Polanco went 2-4 at the plate, but only three other players had a hit in the game as they Twins were shut out.  One walk compared to 6 strike outs and leaving 14 runners on base sure didn’t help out the offense that is for sure.

The Tigers will now play the Seattle Mariners in a four game weekend series.  This should be a series that the Tigers should went atleast three of four games in my opinion.

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The Detroit Tigers had a 4-3 lead heading into the bottom of the eighth inning but then the San Francisco Giants scored five runs and the Tigers were unable to come all the way back in the ninth inning and lost the game 8-6.

Fernando Rodney was welcomed back with a three run home run in the eighth inning as he let three of the five runs in the inning score.  Freddy Dolsi let the other two runs score in the eighth inning when the Giants opened up the flood gates.

It sucked watching Dolsi and Rodney pitch so poorly.  Especially after Justin Verlander threw six innings and only gave up five hits and three runs.  Verlander gave up one home run in the game but other then that he was pretty good as he got a no decision.

At the plate for the Tigers, Marcus Thames hit two home runs and finished the game with three rbi.  Pitch hitter Edgar Renteria had a rbi sac fly in the seventh inning and then in the ninth inning Curtis Granderson had a two run single.

Once again it was the bullpen losing a game for the Tigers.  I have a feeling that the bullpen is going to hurt this team the entire season.  What do you think?

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