Fun game last night.  Good chatter on DTW too. Grienke goes for the Royals tonight.  He’s 1-0 over his last three with a 2.45 ERA and 1.36 WHIP.  Though the Tigers won’t need to score much though.  In Grienke’s past 10 outings for the Royals, his teammates have averaged just 2.4 runs per game. Bondo [...]

Congrats to Max St. Pierre for a well deserved call-up after 14 minor league seasons. Seay is likely out for 2011…ouch.  And on to tonight’s game. Tigers have their work cut out for them tonight versus Liriano.  Liriano is 3-0 in august, with a 3.68 ERA, but a pedestrian 1.44 WHIP (compared to 1.27 on [...]

There have been some flashbacks to the 1987 season when the Tigers took 4/7 games over the last two weeks to close out the division.  Incredibly, every single game was won by 1 run.  I’ll never forget when the Tigers clinched on a solo shot by Herndon and a complete game shutout gem tossed by [...]

Tommy John for Strasburg…that’s rough. Tigers are in a nice little run, thanks to their starting pitching.  They have seven consecutive quality starts and a 1.09 ERA during that time.  They have won 6/7 (let’s put that 8th inning Valverde debacle behind us) and are reminding us why May and June were so much fun. [...]

Tigers look to sweep the series, and the home stand, against the Royals this afternoon.