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What an outing by Jeff Weaver.  I was pretty skeptical when we picked him up but boy did he come through tonight.  The only guy who could hit him was Sean Casey and he couldn’t do it by himself.
The Cardinals got on the board first when David Eckstein singled home Yadier Molina in the second […]

If I ever said anything bad about Sean Casey, i take it all back.  Every Single Word.  Two run shot for Casey and it’s Tiger 2, Cardinals 1

The Cardinals are now one win away from their first World Series since 1982.  In the previous two wins, it was pitching that got us through.  This time, not so much.  We got some timely pitching but it was hardly a shutdown performance by Jeff Suppan.
David Eckstein was the man.  He got the Cardinals on […]

I’ll have a full report over at the Hardball Times tomorrow.  This was a tough game.  Needless to say, you hear the words “must win” in a lot of situations where it really doesn’t apply.  This time it does.  The next TIgers loss will be their last of the 2006 season because their season will be […]

Game four didn’t happen as planned so they’ll to get in game four tonight.  It’s not looking good though.  If things get pushed back another day, Caprenter could throw as early as game six or even game five if he goes on short rest.  This is huge.  Although it also means we might be seeing […]

It’s ten o’clock and MLB is meeting with the teams.  I can’t see this game happening tonight.

The Cardinals are back in front in this series because of eight great innings of three hit ball.  Both he and Looper combined to throw only 93 pitches as the Tigers hacked away.  This was a game I expected the Cardinals to win and had they not, I probably might have thought it was the beginning […]

Alright, they haven’t lost yet, but I want to get to bed so I’m writing this up as the Tigers bat in the ninth.  This is a pretty short story though.  It began and ended with Chris Carpenter.  The Tigers managed only two hits off of him and he needed only 82 pitches to get […]

The World Series starts back up tonight and the Tigers face Chris Carpenter, the Cardinal’s ace and last year’s Cy Young winner.  Have you noticed that Nate Robertson has faced the opposing team’s best pitcher in each of the three series so far?  Whether intentional or not, this isn’t a bad strategy.  While Robertson had […]

Nobody said this would be easy.  A lot of people are making a big deal out of Kenny Rogers brown substance on his hands, but the first inning was actually our best of eight innings against him because we actually got a runner to second base.
Jeff Weaver was only okay.  He pitched out of a […]

Alright, the Tigers took game two and things are all even.  Kenny Rogers threw eight shutout innings, Carlos Guillen hit the ball very well, and Todd Jones almost gave us all a heart attack. 
 I wrote up a decent review over at the Hardball Times so check it out tomorrow morning.

This was a game even I was writing off.  Anthony Reyes came in to pitch as a stop gap because of how long the Cards series went with the Mets and not only did he keep us in the game, he exceeded expectations.  He ran into trouble in the first inning and gave up a […]

I’m going out to celebrate, but what a game.  Look tomorrow morning for the recap.

Alright, a three run third inning capped off by an Albert Pujols homerun has put the Tigers down 4-1.  The Tigers didn’t answer in the bottom of the third and Scott Rolen, who took Verlander yard earlier in the game is leading off the fourth inning.
***UPDATE***
Anthony Reyes just put the Tigers down in the fifth […]

It seems like the Tigers have just about everything going in their favor heading into the 2006 World Series.  They’ve gotten a week of rest while the Cardinals have been fighting for their lives in a tough NLCS.  The Tigers handled the Cardinals pretty easily when they came to Detroit, the rotation is set just […]

The St. Louis Cardinals.  The same team that beat us in the 1934 World Series and the same team we beat in 1968.  The same team that has former Tigers Jeff Weaver and Juan Encarnacion.  The same team who’s manager, Tony LaRussa, gave Tigers’ manager Jim Leyland his first big league job.  I know Fox […]