It was a terrible night on Monday night for the Detroit Tigers as they lost to the Kansas City Royals by the score of 6-2. Yeah the Tigers lost to the Royals at home. You are probably like me at this point and you are just asking yourself is this season over yet?

Zach Miner took the loss after giving up six hits and four runs in six innings of action. Miner is now 8-5 on the season. Relief pitcher Bobby Seay gave up three more hits and two runs. Seay had another bad outing, what else would you expect at this point in this season?

Magglio Ordonez and Jeff Larish had the two rbi’s for the Tigers. Ordonez a rbi sac fly and Larish a rbi single.

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The Detroit Tigers had a one run lead heading into the bottom of the eighth inning but that was soon gone as the Texas Rangers came from behind with four runs in the eighth to beat the Tigers 11-8. Tough loss that falls on hands of the Tigers bullpen without a doubt.

Dontrelle Willis made his return to the mound and tossed five innings as he allowed two hits and three runs. The three runs that the D-Train gave up all came on a three-run home run in the in the fourth inning. Gary Glover had a terrible time when he came in for Willis in the sixth inning as he allowed three hits and four runs.

Relief pitcher Kyle Farnsworth took the loss for the Tigers as he was charged with four hits and four runs while only recording two outs. Terrible outing for the farns.

At the plate for the Tigers, Gary Sheffield led the team with a three-run home run and three rbi on the night. Sheffield was followed by Jeff Larish who had two rbi. Placido Polanco, Magglio Ordonez, and Miguel Cabrera all finished up with one rbi each. It just wasn’t enough as Farnsworth blew the game.

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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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Marcus Thames hit a home run in the fifth straight game and the Detroit Tigers defeated the San Francisco Giants 5-1 on Tuesday evening.  It took two runs in the eighth inning and two extra insurance runs in the ninth inning for the Tigers to finally pull away from the Giants.

Besides Thames going deep, Ryan Raburn also hit a pitch hit solo home run in the game.  Thames, Raburn, Placido Polanco, Carlos Guillen, and Jeff Larish all had one rbi each in the game for the Tigers.

It was Kenny Rogers getting the victory for the Tigers on the mound.  Rogers is now 5-4 after throwing seven inning and only giving up five hits and one run.  Zach Miner pitched a scoreless eighth inning before Todd Jones gave up three hits in the ninth inning but was finally able to end the game.

The Tigers have now won seven of their last eight games and have a 33-38 record as they try to get back to the .500 mark.

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It was a low scoring game on Monday night as the Detroit Tigers fell to the Oakland Athletics by the score of 3-2.  A Bobby Crosby rbi single in the ninth inning off of Francisco Cruceta gave the A’s the win.

Cruceta took the loss and is now 0-3 on the season.  Starting Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers piched seven innings and gave up six hits and two runs.  Cruceta just let his team down, and hopefully he will come out better next time and throw the ball better and get the job done.  The Tigers need to start winning these close ballgames if they want to get back into contention.

Both of the Tigers runs came in the sixth inning.  Curtis Granderson had a solo home run and then Jeff Larish had a rbi single that scored Carlos Guillen.  The Tigers offense only had five hits in the game as they struggled against Rich Harden and then the Athletics bullpen.

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