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Detroit Tigers (4x World Series Champions)

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Tigers offense running on all cylinders

Eleven-run sixth inning highlights big night at the plate

DETROIT -- If this is what the Tigers can do with Curtis Granderson in the lineup, look out.
They can't expect to do this every day, of course. Once every election year, though, seems to be their current rate.

Four years ago on this night, the Tigers put up an 11-run sixth inning at Comerica Park on their way to a runaway victory. The opponent was different on Wednesday, but the setup was the same. Carlos Guillen's two-run double, Miguel Cabrera's three-run homer and Curtis Granderson's two-run single fueled another 11-run sixth, sending the Tigers to a 19-6 rout of the Rangers. This is their highest run total since a 19-6 win at Texas on Aug. 8, 2001.
Up until that point, the Tigers had been nicking and cutting Rangers pitching with smaller hits. Though Detroit put up five runs in the second inning and single runs in the two innings after that, Jacque Jones' third-inning solo homer was the Tigers' only extra-base hit through the first five innings.
Given the struggles of starting pitcher Kenny Rogers, they needed all those runs. Once the Tigers finally put up some cushion in their lead, they made it a runaway.

Guillen had driven in three runs coming into the sixth, and he doubled that by the time the inning was over. His double down the right-field line plated two. After Rangers reliever Jamey Wright walked Magglio Ordonez, he fell behind on Cabrera, who got enough of a 3-1 pitch to send it carrying to the opposite field and just into the right-field seats for his second home run in as many nights and fifth on the season.


Nine consecutive Tigers reached base safely, including two hit-by-pitches by Wes Littleton, before Guillen came back up to hit a sacrifice fly. Ramon Santiago took a pitch off of his right leg with the bases loaded to plate another run, then Granderson turned in his second single of the inning with a ground ball through the right side.
Granderson, making his first start of the season after missing more than three weeks with a fractured bone in his right middle finger, scored three runs in his 2-for-4 performance. He was one of four more walks in the seventh inning to bring in another run.
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The Official Site of The Detroit Tigers: News: Detroit Tigers News
 
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OCBucksFan;1185842; said:
I just will never understand how anyone from Ohio can support any team from Michigan.
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It's easy really, the first baseball games I remember ever watching was in 1984. I loved Trammell, Gibby and the rest. I don't know how anyone could ever cheer for anything in California, I can't stand any team in that state. Especially the Lakers and Raiders. And to get this thread back on track Rodney gives up 2 more runs. Fuck.
 
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The Man;1185848; said:
It's easy really, the first baseball games I remember ever watching was in 1984. I loved Trammell, Gibby and the rest. I don't know how anyone could ever cheer for anything in California, I can't stand any team in that state. Especially the Lakers and Raiders. And to get this thread back on track Rodney gives up 2 more runs. Fuck.
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Well it's not that, and I didn't expect the response, I wasn't meaning to offend. See, I can't ever see myself living in Michigan, however, here's my situation. I was born in Ohio, my relatives on my moms side have 3 generations of OSU in them, so that's an easy one. Otherwise, I moved here when I was 10, I like being able to support a team I go see, so I like the Chargers, when I was a kid they had the best tailgate for me as a kid and I liked the logo more than the rams or raiders. I like the Angels and the Ducks, because I can go see them with less than a 15 minute drive. I like the Lakers because when I was a kid I liked the name "magic." My mom would take me to games as a kid, so.... they were all "local laundry" it's not like the browns have 100% players from the state of Ohio.

Since you live in "seems like hell" I am going to assume you live in that state, and you support the local laundry like me :)

Oh and just a note, in southern California, we don't really consider anything in nothern Cali part of our state, so the Raiders aren't really "here"
 
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OCBucksFan;1185850; said:
Well it's not that, and I didn't expect the response, I wasn't meaning to offend. See, I can't ever see myself living in Michigan, however, here's my situation. I was born in Ohio, my relatives on my moms side have 3 generations of OSU in them, so that's an easy one. Otherwise, I moved here when I was 10, I like being able to support a team I go see, so I like the Chargers, when I was a kid they had the best tailgate for me as a kid and I liked the logo more than the rams or raiders. I like the Angels and the Ducks, because I can go see them with less than a 15 minute drive. I like the Lakers because when I was a kid I liked the name "magic." My mom would take me to games as a kid, so....

Since you live in "seems like hell" I am going to assume you live in that state, and you support the local laundry like me :)
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nah actually I live in Ohio, I really can't imagine living in Michigan. If I did it would just say Hell by my location...:wink2:
 
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The Man;1185851; said:
nah actually I live in Ohio, I really can't imagine living in Michigan. If I did it would just say Hell by my location...:wink2:
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My step-dad is from Kentucky, so we moved there for about 6 months and my mom said "no more" and we moved, but we grew up really poor, so my dad said "I have an uncle that has offered us a place that isn't in Kentucky" so he talked it over, and convinced my mom to move to Detroit. Now, my Grandfathers generations, My Uncles, and 2 of my cousins have gone to, or are going to tOSU, ad my Grandfather kind of thinks of Michigan as part of Canada. So my mom had that same feel about that state, 2 weeks later, she left, heading back to Huber heights Ohio, to this day she says we were in hell, and all she wanted was for her kids to be in heaven.

Oh and for the record, my grandfather helped me grow up a reds and bengals fan, but after watching Boomer fail in ways that only Jim Kelly could make people forget, he said "If you want to enjoy sports, don't ever support an Ohio NFL team" Tho, beyond the Chargers, I do tend to "wish the best."
 
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My football love is in Ohio, where I grew up. And after 1997 World Series, and what happened in the dismantling of my favorite baseball team I disowned the "tribe" Cleveland never had a Hockey team, and I hate everything in Pittburgh, the Wings were close. I'll die a Browns fan at 102 never seeing a SuperBowl apperance :lol:

Fuckin Rodeny DAMN!!!! What was Leyland even thinking bringing him in with some lefties coming to the plate....UGH Almost made a nice comeback though. Yay staying up till 1:30 am to see your team lose and waking up at 5:30am :( Fuck it, I'll watch again tonight.

On another note: What the fuck does Justin have to do to get a win, I guess pitch the whole game like his last win. He pitched great last night, and beacuse of starting a rookie SS he got the fucking SHAFT!!! Verlander looked fucking awsome in his last like 4 starts and only has like 1 win to show for it...Fucking BS
 
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Watching the game right now on FSN Detroit. And they brought this to my attention.


From the San Francisco Chonicle:

Sanchez gets loss after fine outing

(06-17) 23:09 PDT -- Baseball has an evil way of balancing its ledgers, as Jonathan Sanchez learned in a 5-1 defeat Tuesday night. One start after winning a game he deserved to lose, he lost a game he deserved to win.
Adding to the wickedness was the fact that Sanchez was beaten not by one of Detroit's high-salaried thumpers, but a .219-hitting scrub named Ryan Raburn, who pinch-hit for Kenny Rogers in the eighth inning and broke a 1-1 tie with a homer three-fourths of the way up the left-field bleachers - Andres Galarraga territory.
"I could have done that," Rogers told Raburn when he returned to the dugout.

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Sanchez gets loss after fine outing


What a joke, calling rayburn a scrub. A scrub is that OVERPAYED Barry Zito pitching 2 innings and giving 5 ER
 
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SF is a piece of shit city with a piece of shit newspaper. Fuck them. I hate that Detroit gave Willis a 29 million dollar extention but I would be fucking pissed had they given Zito 129 million. SF is so fucked, Zito is done. They did Barry Bonds wrong so fuck em.....
 
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