The Detroit Tigers finished off a three game sweep of the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday afternoon with a 7-1 victory.  The Tigers pretty much dominated all three games of the series and are now 52-49 on the season.  The Tigers are getting on a roll and I think they are going to show us some great things in the second half of the season.

Armando Galarraga improved to 8-4 on the season as he tossed seven innings to pick up the win.  Galarrage only gave up three hits and one run while striking out seven Royal batters.  Galarraga didn’t give up the one run until the seventh inning when Jose Guillen had a rbi single.

Casey Fossum tossed the 9th inning and did not allow a run to score even though he did allow one hit.  Todd Jones then came in to finish off the Royals in the 9th inning.

Miguel Cabrera had three rbi for the Tigers at the plate as he had another good day.  Magglio Ordonez was right behind him as he finished the game with two rbi.  Edgar Renteria also tacked on a rbi in the game as well.  Good effort by the offense!

Now the Tigers will be off on Thursday and then they will begin a weekend series against the Chicago White Sox.  It will be a huge series against the White Sox.

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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 Tigers used a big 10 run spot in the eighth inning as the exploded to beat the Kansas City Royals by the score of 19-4.  Let’s all hope the Tigers didn’t use up all their offense on Monday evening as they still have two more games against the Royals in Kansas City.  However, scoring 19 runs is huge for the team!

Miguel Cabrera led the team with six rbi while Matt Joyce was right behind him with five rbi.  Gary Sheffield had three rbi, Carlos Guillen two rbi, and Ivan Rodriguez chipped in with one rbi each.  Sheffield had a three run home run and Joyce had a two run shot in the game.

Starting pitcher Zach Miner tossed six shutout innings to pick up the win and improve to 4-3 on the season.  Freddy Dolsi did have some problems in the seventh inning as he allowed four hits and four runs to score.  Aquilino Lopez tossed the final two innings of the game without allowing a run to score.  So besides the four run eighth inning, the Tigers pitchers did a pretty good job.

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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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Behind the strong start by Justin Verlander, the Tigers cruised to a 9-2 victory over the slumping Cleveland Indians. It looked apparent from the game that the Indians have indeed waved the white flag on this season. Justin Verlander gave up a two run homer in the first then did not give up a hit. Aquilino Lopez pitched the 8th and 9th inning.

Marcus Thames had a two run homer and Miguel Cabrera had two homers. Meanwhile, Gary Sheffield continued his torrid pace by going 0-4. Damn Mr. Leyland, when are you going to learn he is finished.

Tomorrow the Tigers look to sweep the short 2 game series as Eddie Bonine takes on Paul Byrd. If Bonine has a sub par performance look for him to be replaced in the rotation after the All Star break.

Carlos Guillen missed Tuesday game vs Cleveland due to the birth of 3rd child. He should return to the lineup tomorrow.

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 lost to the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night by the score of 6-4.  The two teams combined for 24 hits in the game bu it was the Twins coming out on top on the scoreboard to even up the series at one game each.

Nate Robinson was rocked in his four innings of action as he gave up 11 hits and six runs.  Robinson is now 6-7 on the season as he took the loss in the game.  Robinson was cruising along until the fourth inning when Craig Monroe hit a three run home run and then it was all down hill.

Zach Miner and Bobby Seay both tossed two innings of scoreless relief for the Tigers.

Marcus Thames hit a two run home run to lead the Tigers at the plate with two rbi.  Gary Sheffield also had a rbi double that scored Carlos Guillen in the eighth inning.  It just wasn’t the Tigers night at the plate even though they had ten hits in the game.

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The Detroit Tigers scored four unanswered runs and beat the Minnesota Twins by the score of 5-4 on Monday night.  The Tigers scored two runs in the seventh inning and two more in the eighth inning to come from behind and steal the victory.  Nice come from behind win for the Tigers over a very hot Twins team that had been playing some very good baseball the past few weeks.

Placido Polanco and Carlos Guillen both had rbi singles in the seventh inning and then pitch hitter Matt Joyce had a rbi triple and Curtis Granderson had a rbi single in the eighth inning as the Twins completed their come back.

Armando Galarraga pitched the first six innings of the game and gave up nine hits and four runs. Only three of the four runs were earned.  Galarraga struck out three batters and only walked one to get to the no decision in the game.  Casey Fossum pitched 1 1/3 innings to get the win and improve his record to 1-0.  Joel Zumaya pitched the final five outs of the game to record his first save of the season.  Zumaya did have runners on first and second with one out in the ninth inning but was able to get out of the jam.

Overall it was a good come from behind win for the Tigers.  They will now try to go up 2-0 as they play again on Tuesday night.

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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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