Holy cow! The Detroit Tigers beat the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday afternoon as the two teams opened up a four game series. Aleast the Tigers don’t have to worry about getting swept this series!

The Tigers offense was able to score four runs on six hits off of Rays starting pitcher Scott Kazmir. They also scored three more runs off of the Rays bullpen. The Tigers used the long ball to win the game as they hit five home runs including two from Ramon Santiago. Mike Hessman, Curtis Granderson, and Dusty Ryan also hit home runs in the game. Miguel Cabrera also added a rbi with a sac fly in the game.

Armando Galarraga ended up with the victory even though he allowed three home runs in 7 2/3 innings. Galarraga gave up six hit and five runs but improved his record to 13-6 for the year. He had a pretty good year and probably should have had more victories and the offense been there to back him up in a couple of games.

Francisco Rodney recorded the final four outs of the game to pick up his 11th save of the season. Great job by Rodney in the game.

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Justin Verlander once again struggled and the Detroit Tiger lost once again. This time Verlander lost to the Cleveland Indians by the score of 9-5. Verlander gave up seven hits and five runs in six innings of action. His record is now a terrible 10-14 on the season.

Verlander wasn’t the only Tigers pitcher to throw the ball badly however. Gary Glover and Bobby Seay both gave up two runs in one inning of action. They didn’t help out one bit as they let the Indians extend there lead too far. Kyle Farnsworth allowed two hits but didn’t allow a run to cross the plate.

Magglio Ordonez made things interesting in the ninth inning when he hit a two run home run which was his 16th of the season. Ordonez also had a rbi double in the seventh inning. Curtis Granderson had a solo home run of his own and also a rbi single as he finished with two rbi. Brandon Inge and Ramon Santiago both tried to help out with an rbi each of their own but the Tigers still fell two runs short.

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The Detroit Tigers had an embarrassing game on Wednesday night as they were blown out by the Texas Rangers 9-1. The Tigers potent offense was only able to come up with six hits and one run down in hot Texas where the ball usually flies all over the ballpark.

The one run that the Tigers did get came in the fourth inning when Miguel Cabrera doubled and Ramon Santiago scored. That was it for the Tigers who struggled against Kevin Millwood who tossed a complete game for the Rangers.

Nate Robertson was hit hard and often as he gave up eight hits and eight runs in only 3 2/3 innings. The Rangers played home run derby off of Robertson as they connected on five home runs in the first four innings of the game. The Rangers weren’t done hitting the long ball however as Aquilino Lopez gave up one more in the seventh inning.

All around it was just a terrible game for the Tigers. – Tigers Baseball Blog

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 lost to the Boston Red Sox for the third time in four games as they lost 5-1 on Thursday night.  The Tigers were only able to come up with seven hits the entire game as they struggled at the plate.

Ramon Santiago had the only rbi for the Tigers when he had a rbi single in the fourth inning.  Other then that the Tigers were shut down by Josh Beckett in the game.

Justin Verlander took the loss for the Tigers after pitching six innings.  Verlander gave up nine hits and five runs in his six innings of action.  He fell to the 1-6 on the season with the loss.

There is no question that the Tigers are a struggling baseball team right now.  The offense isn’t scoring enough runs, and the pitchers just aren’t throwing the ball like everyone thought they would this year.

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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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