Detroit Tigers

By Brent Nycz The Tigers are playing out their season while many Yankee fans are assuming the Yankees will do the same. The Yankees start a ridiculous road trip that has them going from Detroit to Tampa to Seattle with no off-days in between and no ...

If Tuesday evening’s game represented the Texas Rangers’ worst all-around performance of the 2008 season, then Wednesday evening’s game may well have represented their best all-around performance. It would be even nicer if Millwood was able to build off his brilliant showing on Wedne...

New York Yankees (66-58) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (64-60)Darrell Rasner (5-9, 5.18) vs. A.J. Burnett (15-9, 4.67)August 19, 2008 @ 7:07 p.m. @ Rogers Centre 123456789RHEYankees100000000161Blue Jays00000011X250 Burnett (W, 16-9) Veras (L, 3-2) Ryan (S, 24) Preview: Recap:

The Royals land on the shores of Lake Erie this evening to begin what should be an epic three game set against the Cleveland Indians. Why epic, you ask? Epic because this is our annual series where the Royals look to climb out of the soul sucking position known as last place in the American Leag...

In a matchup of the two teams in a toss up for most disappointing team in the Majors, the Blue Jays beat the Tigers tonight by a score of 7-2. With the club looking at an extremely weak schedule coming out of the All-Star Break as they sat within striking distance of the wild card, they stumbled o...

The Rays and Matt Garza(9-6, 3.56 ERA) welcome the Cleveland Indians to the Trop for a three game set. Garza is 0-2 with a 5.85 ERA in four career starts against the Indians. He has given up 27 Cleveland hits in 20 innings. The Rays will be facing Cliff Lee(14-2, 2.58 ERA). Lee is 1-0 against the Rays...

At the start of the year, hosts Joe Aiello and Brandon Rosage felt pretty comfortable giving the Mets and Tigers passes to the postseason after their big off-season acquisitions. But while Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera went walk-off Thursday for a Tigers sweep, Mets closer Billy Wagner blew...

Enjoy and interact via e-mail at thepitch@mvn.com or via phone at 360-450-MVN3. Jim Leyland (Eric Whalen/Flickr) Just when we thought we took baseball personally, Jim Leyland erupted over a former player’s criticism of the struggling Tigers just in time for the Thursday edition of “The...

With Cubs homer Joe Aiello out of the picture on the Thursday show, host Brandon Rosage takes his shot at both questions following a pitiful Tigers loss in Kansas City and a fourth shutout loss by San Diego — this time at the hands of Cubs starter Ryan Dempster.

Thursday, April 24th Game Preview Texas Rangers (7-15) vs. Detroit Tigers (9-13) J. Jennings (0-3, 7.08 ERA) vs. J. Bonderman (1-2, 4.37 ERA) 12:05 PM CST in Detroit, Michigan (Comerica Park) Tigers CFCurtis Granderson LFJacque Jones CAdam Melhuse

The Pitch gang gets Week Two of the MLB season started right, reviewing their favorite happenings from the weekend, including John Smoltz‘ impressive duel against Johan Santana, the Tigers’ and Rockies’ crooked opening week and more key injuries.

McClary assesses the Tigers trade for Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis, grades the team’s farm system, offers predictions for aging starters Nate Robertson and Kenny Rogers and provides a glimpse at budding backup Ryan Raburn.

By Harper Gordek 1) Interleague play.   The Nats played 4 solid teams and Baltimore last year.  4-2 versus Baltimore?  That seems about right.   As for the other teams, Cleveland and Detroit were playoff teams while the Twins and BlueJays hovered around .500.   This year they swap out the Indians,...

By Tyson Sprick Wednesday Mike Anderson takes his Tigers down to Fayetteville for the first time to take on Arkansas, where he spent 17 years on the sidelines under coach Nolan Richardson. Mizzou whipped the Razorbacks during a blizzard last year, and Arkansas is improved and ready for revenge.

By Tyson Sprick No. 11 Michigan State put the Tigers in a 19-8 hole, but Mizzou clawed back in the second half to make the game close for the home crowd at Kansas City’s dazzling Sprint Center Monday night. The Tigers overcame horrendous officiating, the Spartans’ great trapping zone defense, and Drew Neit...