Detroit Pitcher Is No Guitar Hero
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Tigers trainers say Joel Zumaya's wrist and arm inflammation, which sidelined him during the playoffs, resulted from playing the popular PlayStation 2 game. In Game|Life.
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It's only one game, but it's a big deal to the Tigers. Detroit catcher Ivan Rodriguez was incredulous and manager Jim Leyland was irate at what both feel is an unjustified one-game suspension issued Saturday by Major League Baseball.
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Make it eight straight games a Giants starting pitcher hasn&#39;t retired a hitter in the sixth inning. It&#39;s no way to conduct a pennant race, but with the Arizona Diamondbacks in town, who cares?
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The Detroit Tigers will not defend their American League title, out of the playoffs despite a rain-shortened victory over Minnesota that is far too little, too late.
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Last year, Jeff Suppan was the National League's best-hitting pitcher with a .293 average. This year? Nothing.
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It turns out Mike Lowell was never a part of the internal DH discussion. Terry Francona was never taking him out of the lineup.
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HOUSTON - They turned off the home run machine in the hitter&#39;s paradise called Minute Maid Park and handed the swing game in the NLCS to a pair of unlikely pitchers.
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The numbers are so one-sided, it&#039;s startling. The American League is 8-0-1 in the last nine All-Star games. AL teams also swept the past two World Series and won an overwhelming 61 percent of interleague games against the NL this season.
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Now, the single biggest postseason flop in baseball history does not belong to the Red Sox, who pass the uncontested title to the Yankees.
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Justin Verlander didn't look like a rookie in the thick of a pennant race. Despite their recent struggles, the Detroit Tigers kept their cool, too. Having lost 19 of their last 28 games, the Tigers reached this critical four-game series at Minnesota with a chance to fall out of sole possession of first place in the AL Central for the first time since May 20. But that won't happen this weekend, thanks to the rookie right-hander.
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This is how the AL West was un-won: Basically, the same way it was so often won. How ironic that the Oakland Athletics â-inners of the last three division championships with
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Baseball players and baseball fans will never understand each other. There is a fundamental disconnect.
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THE STARTING pitcher always sets the tone. And after one inning from Boston Red Sox right-hander Derek Lowe yesterday at Yankee Stadium, there wasn&#39;t any tone to this one at all.
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Paul Byrd pitched his best game of the season without his best stuff.
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&#39;You suck! You&#39;re a piece of &amp;%$#*! You can&#39;t play worth *$#!% you loser, so SIT DOWN!!!&quot; That&#39;s what a guy was yelling at a visiting player during a White Sox-Angels game earlier this summer.
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Three years ago, they lost 119 games and were a punchline. You know, the Detroit Tigers ... ha, ha, ha.
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He was the dumbest guy in New England. Terry Fran-coma. Gomer Pyle in the dugout. Chewing that giant wad of stuff, making it look like he had a golf ball in his cheek. Not bunting. Not playing smallball. And taking the blame for every mistake his players made.