Seeing as how I’m bored/nervous while waiting for first pitch tonight, I felt it best to write.  Those 140 characters on twitter just never seem enough.
 
Eric Wedge
 
The Indians dismissed Eric Wedge as manager today, except that he will keep his job through the remainder of the season.  This move was a long time coming.  Since taking his team to the brink of the World Series in 2007, the past two seasons have seen the Indians gets off to such bad starts that they fell out of the race by mid-May.  Injuries may have played a small role, but Wedge takes [...]

Minnesota 3, Detroit 2 (10 inn.) (box)
Minnesota 5, Detroit 6 (box)
Magic Number 4
 
By this point, I’m sure most of you have read several game recaps covering these two ball games.  Seeing as how I attended game one, and made it home in about the third inning of game two, I decided to skip the usual recap and just sprinkle in some thoughts about the series thus far.
 

Curtis Granderson is really coming around, eh?  He is now 10 for his last 16 and six of those hits have been for extra bases.  He did still have a Granderson-like pop up with [...]

Okay, so maybe that title is a bit too much. For the Final show of the season though, you have to go out big. You have to go out strong! We are doing that here on Motor City Bengals on Sunday, with the final season show live! Rain or shine, Win or Lose, Playoffs or not, This Week in Detroit Tigers Baseball will be here to break down the 2009 season, and either get you ready for the playoffs, or get you ready to walk you down from off the plank.
Starting on Sunday at 6 PM ET, we will open [...]

We all need a new beer can opener during this time of the year. The stress gets to us. One Moment Miguel Cabrera is hitting a home run. The next minute the Tigers you love are causing you to through that can opener or key chain against the wall in frustration. Trust me I have been there before. Today, after a tough gut wrenching loss, all you want is to crack open that nice cold beverage. And tonight, after a solid win that The Tigers regained their two game lead in, you want to represent your team. That’s where Whole [...]

Rain or shine, there is going to be a rumba’ in the COPA. Afternoon or night, both teams are going to fight. This series means way too much for either team to let down. When the Tigers and Twins take the field on Tuesday, there is going to be nothing but great baseball action. For us Tigers fans, it will be nauseating. We might at points in this series see an inept offense . Nate Robertson or Eddie Bonine could fall apart. Heaven forbid, Justin Verlander could lose his start tomorrow evening. Nothing is ever a given in this game. [...]

The defining series of the year is here, and without further ado, so is This Week in Detroit Tigers Baseball! On this week’s show we cover the Twins/Tigers series in depth with the always insightful Greg Eno of The Knee Jerks and his own empire on the web (Check it out for great historical and spot on Detroit sports columns). Greg and I break down game by game what it is going to take from the Detroit Tigers to win the division, as well as what pitching match ups favor your Detroit Tigers. Greg calls this series with the Tigers [...]

Detroit 12, Chicago 5 (box)
Magic Number 7
 
Nate Robertson was not very effective last night.  Before you may have known the game had started, Robertson allowed a hit, an error on a wild pick-off attempt, and another single to give the White Sox and early 1-0 lead.  The Sox added another on an Alex Rios homer in the second, and three more came home on Carlos Quentin’s blast in the fourth.  In total, Robertson gave up six hits, three walks, and five runs (four earned) in just 3.2 innings.
 
But, it actually could have been a lot worse.  The White Sox were [...]

Detroit 0, Chicago 2 (box)
Magic Number 8
 
Eddie Bonine didn’t allow a hit until the sixth inning, but when he did, Gordon Beckham made it count, blasting a two-run homer to provide all the scoring (and half the hits) in a 2-0 White Sox win.
 
The game was a classic pitcher’s duel, Bonine mowed through the White Sox with an array of pitches, all of them missing the barrels of the Sox’ bats.  Jake Peavy kept the Tigers off the board in his seven innings, despite allowing two baserunners in three different innings, Detroit just could not muster a big hit at [...]