Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: September 2011
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Listen to Ernie Harwell’s call of the Tigers clinching the American League East title in 1984.
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Listen to George Kell call the Tigers’ last division-clinching win.
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Rod Nelson sent along word of the next meeting of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Detroit Chapter. If you love Tigers baseball — and baseball in general — you can never go wrong attending a SABR event. Rod shares the following details: As the Tigers close in on their first October appearance in five years, the SABR…
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The Tigers tonight notched the club’s longest winning streak since 1968 when the eventual World Series champs won 11 straight. Thanks to the wonder that is Baseball-Reference.com, here’s a game-by-game look at that ’68 string. Date Opp R RA Win Loss Save Monday, Sept. 9 boxscore @ CAL 6 0 Lolich Bennett Tuesday, Sept.…
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A couple weeks ago, friend of the Fungo Lynn Henning wrote why it made sense to give Justin Verlander an extra day of rest heading into the three-game weekend series against the Indians. In the column, Henning pointed to specific examples in Tigers history where heavy workloads resulted in truncated careers – among them Mark…
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From Elias Sports Bureau: The White Sox led the Tigers, 8-1, in the fifth inning of Saturday’s game before Detroit came back to win, 9-8. It was the second-largest comeback win that the Tigers have ever had at Comerica Park; on Sept. 27, 2003, they rallied from eight runs down to defeat the Twins, 9-8,…
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