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| Tigers shoot for another sweep of Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
08/20/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Detroit Tigers will try to complete their second consecutive three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers, as the two teams conclude their set tonight in Arlington. Detroit has won all five of its meetings with Texas this year -- plating at least eight runs in each win -- and has won seven straight over the Rangers dating back to last year. That includes a three-game sweep at home on April 22-24. The Tigers haven't swept the Rangers in Texas since May 1-3, 2001. Detroit used a nine-run sevent |
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| Rangers' Bradley leaves game |
MLB Baseball |
08/20/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Texas Rangers designated hitter Milton Bradley left Tuesday's 11-3 loss to the Detroit Tigers with soreness in his left knee. Bradley was 0-for-2 with a walk and run scored before being removed from the lineup for Jarrod Saltalamacchia after seven innings. |
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| Joyce homers twice as Tigers rout Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
08/19/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Matt Joyce hit a pair of homers and finished with four runs driven in, as the Detroit Tigers used a nine-run seventh to crush the Texas Rangers, 11-3, in the middle contest of a three-game set. Edgar Renteria added a solo shot for the Tigers, who have won four of their last six overall. Gary Sheffield, Miguel Cabrera and Magglio Ordonez each drove in a run in the win. Armando Galarraga (12-4) was decent on the hill to pick up the win, as he lasted six innings and gave up thre |
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| Tigers' Galarraga tries to make Rangers pay |
MLB Baseball |
08/19/2008 |
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| s to say, the Texas Rangers are happy with the offseason trade that brought Josh Hamilton to town. They might want to have the one that sent Armando Galarraga packing back, though. Galarraga faces his former club for the first time tonight, when the Detroit Tigers continue a three-game series with Texas at Rangers Ballpark. The Rangers swapped pitcher Edinson Volquez for Hamilton over the winter, and although Volquez is making a name for himself in the National League with the Reds, Hamilton has been nothing |
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| Granderson, Tigers hold on to down Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
08/19/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Curtis Granderson's two triples and four RBI helped give Kenny Rogers a victory over his old team, as the Detroit Tigers held off the pesky Texas Rangers, 8-7 in the opener of a three-game set. Rogers (9-10), who was drafted by Texas in the 39th round of the 1982 draft and spent three different stints with the club, struck out seven and gave up three runs on eight hits and four walks to snap a personal four-start skid. Gary Sheffield had three hits, including a two-run homer |
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| O's Mora, ChiSox Vazquez share AL weekly honor |
MLB Baseball |
08/18/2008 |
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| es and a triple, also posting a robust 1.031 slugging percentage. In Baltimore's four-game set at Cleveland last week, Mora went 8-for-18 with a pair of doubles and three runs batted in. He topped that performance with a 10-for-13 series against the Detroit Tigers which saw the hot-hitting infielder go 5-for-6 with two homers and six RBI in a 16-8 victory on Sunday. It was Mora's second career award, and first since May, 2003. Vazquez finished the week by going 2-0 with a 0.56 earned run average in two starts |
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| Slumping Rogers tries to lead Tigers past Rangers |
MLB Baseball |
08/18/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Kenny Rogers will try to halt his four-start losing streak in the place he began his career. Rogers will take the hill tonight, when his Detroit Tigers visit the Texas Rangers for the start of a three-game set in Arlington. Rogers' losing streak, in which he is pitching to a 7.66 earned run average during, has dropped him to 8-10 on the season with a 4.95 season ERA. He has allowed at least four runs in each setback, including Wednesday against Toronto. On that day, he was tagged for four |
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| Boston hopes to get untracked in Baltimore |
MLB Baseball |
08/18/2008 |
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| of which have been starts. Baltimore's bats broke out in a big way on Sunday, as Melvin Mora hit two homers and drove in a career-high six runs while Luke Scott added a pair of home runs and knocked in four, lifting the Orioles to a 16-8 rout of the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park. Mora finished 5-for-6 with a pair of doubles and four runs scored while Scott added a double. Aubrey Huff chipped in with a two-run homer, double and three runs scored for the Orioles, who have won four of their last five. Nick Mar |
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| Baltimore outslugs Tigers behing Mora's six RBI |
MLB Baseball |
08/17/2008 |
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| Detroit, MI (MySportsbook) - Melvin Mora hit two homers and drove in a career-high six runs while Luke Scott hit a pair of home runs and knocked in four, as the Baltimore Orioles hammered the Detroit Tigers, 16-8, in the rubber match of a three-game series at Comerica Park. Mora finished 5-for-6 with a pair of doubles and four runs scored while Scott added a double. Aubrey Huff chipped in with a two-run homer, double and three runs scored for the Orioles, who have won four of their last five. Nick Markakis |
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| Tigers, Orioles to hold Motor City rubber match |
MLB Baseball |
08/17/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Red-hot right-hander Zach Miner makes his sixth start of 2008 when the Detroit Tigers host the Baltimore Orioles today in the third and final game of a weekend series at Comerica Park. Miner, who had started 17 times in 61 appearances over his initial two big- league seasons, made 32 straight trips from the bullpen to begin 2008 before making start No. 1 on July 21 at Kansas City. He downed the Royals with six innings of scoreless three-hit ball in that game and has gone 2-1 with a no-deci |
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