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Hey kids and kittens, we’re having some internet problems here at RotT headquarters, in the sense that there isn’t any. Internet, I mean. I’m currently, er, borrowing from a friendly neighbor but past experience tells me that this connection is pretty spotty. I’m going to do what I can to keep things [...] - [Read more]

PREGAME: Happy 4th of July everyone. I’m going to unplug for a day or. It’s been about a year and a half since I went a day without checking email and working on the blog. With traffic usually quiet around here on holidays I thought that this would be a nice time. As [...] - [Read more]

I know this might seem weird to people who aren’t used to it, but my town has its fireworks on the 3rd of July (so as to avoid conflicting with neighboring towns and their larger displays). That and the lateness of the game have combined to make me basically useless so far as blogging [...] - [Read more]

Toledo 4 Columbus 10Mike Hessman hit homer number 27 and added a walk. Jeff Larish doubled twice. Ramon Santiago was 1 for 4 with an error. Anastacio Martinez allowed 3 unearned runs in 4 innings. Francis Beltran was pummeled for 6 runs while only recording 1 out. Erie 2 Akron 0Josh Rainwater [...] - [Read more]

Things are going pretty well for Marcus Thames. Throughout his career he’s been a role player. A guy who has been called on to fill in and hit homers. Now, on the wrong side of 30, finally in his first year of salary arbitration, he’s being acknowledged as an everyday player. [...] - [Read more]

PREGAME: Losing streaks aren’t any fun. So let’s keep this one to just two games okay? The Tigers face Carlos Silva which has been good for Detroit this year with the 4.2 innings in his 2 starts and 14 runs. The Tigers send out Justin Verlander who has been a)striking out more people [...] - [Read more]

PREGAME: Losing streaks aren’t any fun. So let’s keep this one to just two games okay? The Tigers face Carlos Silva which has been good for Detroit this year with the 4.2 innings in his 2 starts and 14 runs. The Tigers send out Justin Verlander who has been a)striking out more people [...] - [Read more]

Zach Miner paid the price for a 4 walk effort on Tuesday night with an assignment to Toledo. Aquilino Lopez who was being stretched out as a starter has been recalled to provide a strike thrower in the pen. Both moves are warranted, but my first thought when hearing of this was Denny Bautista. [...] - [Read more]

Heeeeeey, Eddie! Wow, it’s great to meetcha! I’m the American League! Welcome to me! *inaudible muttering* Sorry Eddie, didn’t quite catch that. What’dja say there? *more muttering about already playing with an American League team* Oh Edster, no no, that ain’t how it works! See, you’re a pitcher, what counts is when you pitch [...] - [Read more]

PREGAME: Minimalist preview today. For the series win it’s Eddie Bonine and Nick Blackburn. Factoid of the day on opposing pitcher: big reverse platoon splits for Blackburn with 10 of 11 homers allowed coming from righties. DET @ MIN, Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Game Preview - Baseball-Reference.com Game Time 1:10 - [Read more]

March of the Tigers | FanGraphs Baseball A look at the Tigers 18-4 run ESPN - Curtis Granderson Blog Granderson on stealing bases and always looking to improve. Behind the scenes of a Tigers broadcast - Detroit Tigers Baseball: News, Blogs, Photos, Audio, Schedule & Stats - MLive.com Find out how a broadcast is put together. Tigers games a smash hit [...] - [Read more]

Sometimes you win games. Sometimes you lose games. Sometimes games are rained out. And sometimes games are just completely freakin’ weird (also you lose). After putting up three errors and looking like a bunch of inept fielders in their previous game, the Tigers today decided to commit ZERO errors and to make FIVE [...] - [Read more]

Toledo 7 Columbus 9Jeff Larish homered and walked. Brent Clevlen singled and tripled. Yorman Bazardo was rocked for 7 runs on 7 hits and 5 walks in 4.1 innings. Akron 9 Erie 1Dusty Ryan walked and homered driving in the only Erie run. Danny Christensen gave up 8 runs in 4.1 innings. Lakeland 5 [...] - [Read more]

When a team puts together an 18-4 type run, usually said team is doing it by playing well and getting some breaks. Some of those breaks the Tigers have been getting of late have come in the form of pinch hitters. The Tigers have used pinch hitters 26 times this season and are hitting a [...] - [Read more]

PREGAME: I’ll be honest with you. Going into this series I didn’t have big demands. As long as the Tigers didn’t get swept, I figured things would be okay. However, with that requirement out of the way I’m going to greedy and ask for a series win. Tonight it will be Nate Robertson [...] - [Read more]

The deficits were many (5 innings trailing, 6 trailing or tied). The extra-base hits were few (3, out of 12 total hits). The errors were numerous (3). But somehow the Tigers prevailed. Yeah, the game was frustrating. The singles. The fact that two out of the three extra-base hits came from [...] - [Read more]

Toledo 6 Columbus 4 Erick Almonte was the star tonight with a 3 for 4 night including 2 doubles. Timo Perez added a homer and a walk. Lauren Gagnier fanned 6 and walked 2 allowing 2 runs in 6 innings. Francisco Cruceta allowed an unearned run in 1.2 innings fanning 2. Akron 6 Erie [...] - [Read more]

So Miguel Cabrera slides into the clean-up spot with Magglio Ordonez hitting the disabled list. And promptly gets hurt himself. The diagnosis is hip flexor and the duration is day-to-day. To add injury to injury, Pudge Rodriguez has spent the entire game grimacing and moving as if he is also in pain. [...] - [Read more]

PREGAME: The Tigers and Twins with their records sufficiently padded against the NL, will do battle tonight in the Metrodome. The Tigers will be without Magglio Ordonez. But the Twins placed their right fielder on the DL yesterday as well. Of course Michael Cuddyer is hitting 252/324/376 this year so it [...] - [Read more]

I think this is the first dinosaur-related post on RotT that wasn’t in some way referring to the Spazzosaurus. A landmark occasion! For the first time EVER this year the Tigers have been over .500! I am so consumed by excitement that I do not even know what to do with myself. Over [...] - [Read more]