Ordonez homers twice; Tigers up lead
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It was Magglio Ordonez's turn to lay a big hurt on his former team, the Chicago White Sox.
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Gary Sheffield homered twice and drove in five runs, and Jeremy Bonderman won his fourth straight start as the Detroit Tigers cruised past the host Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 14-2, last night.
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Kenny Rogers pitched five-plus innings to pick up his first win since July 5 and Carlos Guillen homered to lift the Detroit Tigers over the Texas Rangers 4-2 Thursday night.
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The Detroit Tigers squeezed past the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Monday when Magglio Ordonez capped a four-run, ninth-inning rally with his fourth hit of the game.
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Detroit rookie Justin Verlander leads the Tigers toÃÂ a much-needed 7-2ÃÂ win on Thursday in the hotly contested AL Central.
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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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Eric Munson and Omar Infante each hit two-run homers and Detroit's bullpen stayed busy all night Thursday, leading the Tigers to a 6-4 win over the Cleveland Indians.
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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.
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Omar Infante's two-run double keyed a four-run seventh and Nate Robertson pitched seven strong innings as the Detroit Tigers beat the Seattle Mariners 6-2 Monday afternoon.
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Jorge Sosa didn't know &#151; or care &#151; that the Detroit Tigers had not been shut out this year. "I didn't think about, I just tried to do my pitches," the 30-year-old journeyman from the Dominican Republic said through an interpreter, after holding the Tigers at bay over eight innings in the New York Mets' 3-0 win Friday night.
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Tigers manager Jim Leyland said that his team needed more production from Magglio Ordonez. It didn't take long.
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The Detroit Tigers had everything lined up to take command of the AL Central race. They had a five-run lead against their favorite opponent and simply blew it.
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Justin Verlander found his groove on the mound, and the Detroit Tigers rediscovered their stroke at the plate.
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Sean Casey hit a two-run homer and the Detroit Tigers beat the Royals, 7-3, last night in Kansas City, Mo., to take a 1 1/2-game lead over Minnesota in the AL Central.
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Carlos Guillen's three-run homer lifted the Detroit Tigers to a 9-6 win over the New York Yankees on Saturday morning in a game that lasted even longer than the 4-hour and 1-minute rain delay that preceded it.
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The closest race in the American League is for the wild card. Alex Rodriguez pushed the Yankees further ahead in those standings by talking his way into the lineup and homering twice to help New York open a three-game lead on Seattle. Meanwhile, Detroit moved just a half-game further back with a big win over Chicago when Timo Perez singled off the right-center field wall with two outs in the 11th inning for a 2-1 Tigers win Wednesday night.
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Craig Monroe hit a three-run homer off Scott Proctor with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Detroit Tigers avoided a doubleheader sweep by rallying past the New York Yankees 5-3 Wednesday night.