The latest unlikely hero is Chris Dickerson, who hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to carry the Orioles past the Detroit Tigers 7-5 Friday night.
The 40-year-old left-hander stuck out five over 6 1-3 innings in his longest outing of the year as the New York Yankees lost to the Detroit Tigers 10-6 Saturday.
After beating the Detroit Tigers 2-0 last night at Comerica Park the San Francisco Giants are one win away from winning their second World Series in three years.
Nix hit a two-out, two-run homer off Verlander's high, hanging changeup and that was enough offense for New York because CC Sabathia pitched seven scoreless innings to help the Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 7-0 Sunday.
The count would change if the low-budget Minnesota Twins, two games out of first place, knock off the Detroit Tigers (fifth-highest payroll) in the American League Central.
Nova allowed an infield single over two scoreless innings and the New York Yankees stopped a seven-game losing streak by beating a Detroit Tigers split squad 10-3 on Saturday.
Miguel Cabrera drove in one of four runs in the fifth inning on a 4-for-4 day and the Detroit Tigers beat New York 8-4.
Cabrera drove in one of four runs in the fifth inning on a 4-for-4 day and the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 8-4 Saturday.
During the third delay, fans watched out-of-town games on the giant scoreboard and cheered when Baltimore beat the first-place Detroit Tigers on a walkoff homer, moving the Indians into a temporary tie atop the AL Central.
But Rodriguez sealed his departure when, after being benched during Game 1 of an eventual four-game sweep at the hands of the Detroit Tigers, he opted to spend the final innings of a heart-breaking loss having a baseball delivered to the aforementioned Aussie in the hopes of getting her phone number.
The team went on to defeat the Detroit Tigers in the 1908 World Series--the last championship the Cubs would win for 100 years (and counting).
McLain, a 30-game winner as a Detroit Tigers pitcher who later was convicted of money laundering, theft and mail fraud.
But his latest outburst also might have helped the Yankees to a 4-3 win over the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park Thursday.
Niese pitched one-hit ball for 4 2-3 innings, and the New York Mets roughed up Justin Verlander in an 11-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Monday.
Verlander signed a five-year contract extension with the Detroit Tigers that includes an option for a sixth year.
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That includes first-place teams like the Milwaukee Brewers and Detroit Tigers, which each have less than half the Yankees' overall payroll.
But as the 2006 season approaches the All-Star break, top teams like the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox, along with bottom feeders like the Kansas City Royals, shouldn't be looking at those clubs as the standard to either emulate or avoid.
Former Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim right fielder Torii Hunter (who recently signed with the Detroit Tigers) lived in Prosper, Texas, during the baseball off-season.
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Finally, as a Detroit Tigers fan, I want to thank Glenn for giving a shout-out to Armando Galarraga, who was robbed of a perfect game last summer.
Three years earlier, Jim Northrup rapped a bases-loaded triple off Cardinals ace Bob Gibson as the Detroit Tigers topped St.
He was a near genius at salary negotiations with Walter Briggs, the parsimonious owner of the Detroit Tigers, and in the final years of his career was the highest-paid player in baseball.
Besides the brilliance of throwing his second career no-hitter in May, Verlander is the primary reason why the Detroit Tigers are on the verge of winning their first American League Central title since realignment in 1998.
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Perennial All-Stars Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves, Juan Gonzalez of the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indian Manny Ramirez all have contracts that expire at the end of the year.
The schedule pushed Sabathia all the way to Game 4 of the Detroit series, when it might be too late should Verlander pitch the Tigers to a three-games-to-none lead on Tuesday night.
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Rounding out the rest of the list are Comerica Park (Detroit Tigers), Turner Field (Atlanta Braves), Coors Field (Colorado Rockies) Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (Oakland Athletics), PETCO Park (San Diego Padres), Angel Stadium (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), Minute Maid Park (Houston Astros) and Miller Park (Milwaukee Brewers).
Sanchez struck out 17 in eight marvelous innings for Detroit, confounding the Atlanta Braves in a dazzling performance Friday night and leading the Tigers to a 10-0 victory.
On Saturday, a sellout crowd will bustle through the turnstiles at Yankee Stadium hoping to see another playoff victory by the 27-time world champions in Game Two of the American League Division Series against the Detroit Tigers.
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On top of that, five more wild-card teams (the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers and Colorado Rockies) have advanced to the Series and lost, maintaining the 29 percent rate of success (10 out of 34).
The Tigers drew 127, 333 fans to three-game series, the largest opening series crowd in Detroit since 1948.
A-Rod has been out of the spotlight since the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs by the Detroit Tigers.
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