Rogers, Tigers roughted up by Blue Jays
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The Detroit Tigers hope Kenny Rogers didn't provide a preview of how he's going to pitch in the playoffs.
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Kenny Rogers has gone from all-star scourge to All-Star game starter. The Tigers&#039; left-hander, the top winner for the team with the best record in the majors, will be on the mound for the AL on Tuesday night against Brad Penny of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Rogers will be trying to extend a nine-game AL unbeaten streak.
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After being on the wrong end of several records in a 26-5 loss to the visiting Kansas City Royals, the Detroit Tigers went out and won 8-0 in the second game of the doubleheader.
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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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KANSAS CITY, MO. -- Zack Greinke had his 95-mile-an-hour fastball working last night and it wasn&#39;t even his best pitch. It was his 50-mph curveball that had the Detroit Tigers shaking their heads after the
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Three years after setting an American League record for losses in a season, the Detroit Tigers have left the woeful Kansas City Royals behind. Omar Infante hit two home runs, and Jeremy Bonderman did the rest on the mound in the visiting Tigers&#039; 6-3 victory over Kansas City on Wednesday night, the Royals&#039; 12th straight loss. Kansas City fell to a major league-worst 10-34 and is already on its second double-digit losing streak of the young season.
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The Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York  Yankees 4-2 on Saturday but are losing money, losing fans and  at the conclusion of the Major League season on Sunday could be  losing first baseman Carlos Delgado.
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Justin Verlander shut down the New York Yankees while the Detroit Tigers roughed up Mike Mussina and a couple of relievers in their highest-scoring game this season.
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The Detroit Tigers had everything lined up to take command of the American League Central race. They had a five-run lead against the lowly Kansas City Royals . . . and simply blew it.
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While the Oakland Athletics keep fighting for a playoff spot, the Toronto Blue Jays are still tangling with each other.
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The difference between the first-place Yankees and the last-place Blue Jays was there for all to see last night, in a pitching match-up featuring two back-of-the-rotation starters.
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The Toronto Blue Jays jolted their fans awake with two late rallies. Aaron Hill hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning to give the Blue Jays a 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Friday night.
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TORONTO -- All the early miscues belonged to the Oakland Athletics but the ones that mattered the most, in the eighth and ninth innings, were made by the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Kenny Rogers shut down the slumping Chicago White Sox, giving the Detroit Tigers their biggest lead in the AL Central in almost two weeks and guaranteeing their first .500 season in more than a decade.
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If they're not careful, the Detroit Tigers are going to get caught by their tails. Rookie Joe Inglett's two-run triple off Justin Verlander highlighted Cleveland's six-run fifth inning that sent the Indians to an 8-5 win Saturday night over the Tigers, who have lost four straight and maybe their stranglehold on the AL Central.
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The Detroit Tigers showed they are not   going to surrender the AL Central lead without a fight on   Friday, dishing out a 17-2 mauling of the Baltimore Orioles.
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Kenny Rogers became the majors&#039; first seven-game winner, helping the Detroit Tigers to their longest winning streak in nearly 13 years.