Tigers Blow Big Lead, Settle for Wild Card
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Needing a win to claim the AL Central title, the Tigers must settle for the wild card after blowing a six-run lead in a 10-8, 12-inning loss to the Royals.
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Marlon Byrd drove in three runs and the Texas Rangers ended Jeremy Bonderman's unbeaten streak at 17 starts, beating the Tigers, 8-3, last night in Detroit.
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Carlos Pena homered off Shingo Takatsu to lead off the 10th inning and the Detroit Tigers outslugged the Chicago White Sox for an 11-10 victory Friday night.
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The Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins absorbed tough losses on Friday to leave the American League Central title up for grabs entering the final weekend of play.
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Dmitri Young homered and matched his career high with five RBIs to power the Detroit Tigers over the Cleveland Indians 11-3 Tuesday night, stopping a four-game losing streak,
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The Detroit Tigers doubled their AL Central lead Friday night. Magglio Ordonez hit a two-run homer in an eight-run fourth inning, Brandon Inge added a grand slam in the sixth and the Detroit Tigers boosted their division lead to two games by routing the Baltimore Orioles 17-2 Friday night.
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Every time it appears the Detroit Tigers are about to mount a surge, they fall flat. A day after the Tigers rallied with four runs in the ninth for a thrilling win over Toronto, they fell behind by 11 runs and lost 13-6 Monday to the Rangers in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.
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Kansas City hits three home runs in the top of the 11th inning to down the Tigers, 9-7. Detroit remains tied atop the AL Central as the Twins also lose.
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Magglio Ordonez hit a two-run homer in   the first inning and the Detroit Tigers later scored four runs   in the seventh to knock off the Seattle Mariners 6-2 in   American League play on Monday in Detroit.
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DETROIT - Craig Monroe hit an RBI single with one out in the 11th inning, leading the Detroit Tigers to a wild 11-10 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.    The teams combined for a Comerica Park-record 36 hits, including 21 by Seattle...
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The Detroit Tigers might be putting it together just in time to keep their postseason hopes alive. Curtis Granderson's homer put him in elite company and Justin Verlander gave up one run over eight innings as Detroit beat the Seattle Mariners 6-1 Friday night for its first three-game winning streak in nearly two months.
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The Detroit Tigers handed Cleveland a 12-3 drubbing on Thursday and moved to within a game of the first-placed Indians in the American League Central.
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The Tigers had the best record in the majors for most of the season, but they lost 31 of their last 50 games and finished second in the A.L. Central to Minnesota.
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Veteran lefthander Kenny Rogers guided Detroit to a 6-0 win over the New York Yankees on Friday, bringing the Tigers to the brink of a shock victory in their American League divisional playoff series.
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The Motor City skyline was draped in clouds, and a steady rain pattered on the tarp-covered field at Comerica Park. If things weren't gloomy enough in Detroit on Tuesday, the Tigers only needed to look at the AL Central standings.
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The Detroit Tigers pulled off a major upset by knocking the New York Yankees out of the playoffs with an 8-3 win to clinch their best-of-five divisional series on Saturday.
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Detroit's Kenny Rogers strikes out eight asÃÂ the TigersÃÂ shut out New York, 6-0, to take a 2-1 series lead over the Yankees on Friday night.