detroit tigers

The Detroit Tigers had a winning record when Seattle came to town three days ago.  After failing in three attempts to defend thier home turf against the Mariners, the Tabbies find themselves a game under .500

The Seattle Mariners were one of the weakest hitting teams in baseball.  Until they came to Detroit, that is.  After thumping the Tigers 7-3 Tuesday, Seattle Smoaked the Motor City Kitties 10-1 tonight.  Justin Verlander gave up a 3-run homer to

Detroit's Phil Coke is Seattle's favorite pitcher.  The Mariners have only scored 85 runs so far this season, 13 have come in 2 games when they faced the Tigers and Coke was pitching.  To make matters worse, the Tigers haven't  beaten Mariner starter Felix Hernandez in quite some time.

Max Scherzer pitched 8 shutout innings and got just enough help from the Tiger hitters to complete a three game sweep of the Chicago White Sox at Comerica Park this afternoon.

Brad Penny got his first win as a Detroit Tiger today, pitching 7 innings and only giving up one hit to the White Sox.  The one hit was controversial as Chicago's Brent Morel reached in the sixth inning on a hard hit ball down the 3rd base line that was gloved by Brandon Inge.  Inge's throw pulled first baseman Miguel Cabrera off the base and the official scorer ruled it was a hit.

It was a cold, rainy night at Comerica Park.  Justin Verlander gave up three solo home runs (two to Carlos Quentin), but lit up the radar gun and the rest of the White Sox hitters all night to lead Detroit to a win over Chicago.

It's the first time the Tigers have won a road series this season.  After a terrible beating at the hands of the weak-hitting Seattle Mariners last night, the Tigers rode the suddenly good pitching of Rick Porcello to beat the M's 3-2 this afternoon.

It started out badly.  It ended much worse.  Tiger starter Phil Coke walked 4 Mariner hitters in the first inning and gave up a hit to put his team in a 4-0 hole.  They would never recover.

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Jhonny Peralta belted a three-run triple in the 7th inning to help power the Tigers to an 8-3 win over the Seattle Mariners.  Miguel Cabrera and Brennan Boesch both added a pair of hits and drove home a run apiece in the win.

The baseball pundits say that Oakland has great pitching.  The Tiger hitters would concur.  They could only manage to score once yesterday in a 5-1 loss to the Athletics.  That one tally came on a Casper Wells solo homer late in the game.

The Tigers had their ace, Justin Verlander on the mound.  Usually that gives them a better than average chance to win.  So far this season, they haven't given him much help.