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http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/detroit_tigers_alex_avila_leav_1.html
Detroit Tigers' Alex Avila leaves game in fifth inning after taking Nick Swisher foul ball off mask.
from Mlive

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2013/8/8/4604288/alex-avila-injury-concussion
Alex Avila injury: Tigers catcher being checked for concussion-like symptoms.
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http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/mlb...l-after-suffering-?blockID=927775&feedID=3701
Avila taken to hospital after suffering possible concussion.
from DetroitFox

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/detroit_tigers_alex_avila_goes.html
Detroit Tigers' Alex Avila goes to hospital to get checked for concussion after foul ball off mask.
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Avila did not travel with Tigers to NYC, will be re-evaluated back in Detroit.
Alex Avila not traveling with Tigers to NY. He will be re-evaluated back in Detroit.

If Alex Avila goes on 7-day concussion DL, Tigers fans might get first look at James McCann AA Erie or Holaday from AAA Toledo.



Avila leaves game with possible concussion.
The Tigers' first four-game series sweep here in 25 years was supposed to answer questions about their readiness for October. Instead, they left town with one big question mark behind the plate.
Alex Avila was taken to a local hospital and tested for a possible concussion after he complained of symptoms during Thursday's win over the Indians at Progressive Field. While the Tigers traveled to New York for their weekend series against the Yankees, Avila was set to return to Detroit, where he'll be re-evaluated.
The tests were a precautionary measure, the team emphasized, but the level of concern throughout the Tigers clubhouse was serious.
"I'm actually pretty concerned," starting pitcher Max Scherzer said. "You see how many times he's getting just worn out in the face mask. You just wonder how many times those add up. So you really wish him the best."
Avila took a foul tip behind the plate in the fourth inning and received a visit from manager Jim Leyland and Tigers head athletic trainer Kevin Rand after home-plate umpire Ron Kulpa noticed bleeding around his ear. An initial exam, Leyland said, suggested the bleeding was outside the ear, rather than inside.
"One of the questions I asked him was, 'Is your vision and everything OK? Are you light-headed?' And he was fine," Leyland said. "But when he came into the dugout, evidently he went down underneath. And when Kevin was checking him out, he told him he was nauseous and light-headed.
"When you hear that kind of information, you take guys out. You don't mess around with that."
Brayan Pena, who caught all 14 innings of Wednesday night's marathon victory, replaced Avila behind the plate for the bottom of the fifth.
It's the second time in as many years Avila has left a game in Cleveland with concussion symptoms. The Tigers were here last September when Avila collided with first baseman Prince Fielder in front of the Tigers dugout chasing a pop fly. Avila had similar symptoms and missed four games.
As Scherzer noted, Avila is known for taking an abundance of foul tips off of his head and body. Leyland has said more than once that he takes more than any catcher he has seen.
"This isn't the first time I've been concerned about it," Leyland said, "but normally … I mean, when I was out there talking to him, he said he was fine and vision was good. But evidently he got nausea and that. I don't want to predict anything, but that's usually not a good sign."
from the Tigers official site
 
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August 9 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: Mistaking her husband for a burglar, the mother of minor league outfielder Ty Cobb shoots and kills him, an incident that will be cited as the reason for Cobb's intense desire to succeed. The "Georgia Peach" will make his major league debut with the Tigers later this month.

1930: John Stone, Detroit OF, doubles in two runs in the 6th inning against Boston as the Tigers win 3 - 0. Stone has now hit in 23 straight games, but will go hitless in tomorrow's Sunday game at Fenway Park. Vic Sorrell tosses today's shutout.

1946 - All games are played at night for the first time in major-league history, four in the American League and four in the National League.

1971: Despite belting six home runs - three by Bill Freehan, two by Willie Horton, one by Aurelio Rodriguez - at Fenway Park, the Tigers lose to the Red Sox, 12 - 11. The Sox have only one homer, a grand slam by Bob Montgomery. Rico Petrocelli's pinch single with two outs in the 9th drives home the winner.

1974 - John Hiller walks 11 batters in one relief stint. No one can even tie Hiller’s achievement since 1948.

1981 - Major league baseball returns in a big way from its in-season strike as 72,086 fans attend the belated All-Star Game in Cleveland.

1987: In a 15 - 4 Tiger mauling of the Yankees, New York catcher Rick Cerone takes the mound. Again, he walks one batter and allows no runs, the second time in three weeks he's caught and pitched in the same game. Four Tigers players knock in 2 runs each for winning pitcher Dan Petry, DH Bill Madlock, SS Alan Trammell, RF Larry Herndon, PH Pat Sheridan. Add in homeruns from 1B Darrell Evans, C Matt Nokes, Trammell and Madlock Yankee pitching needed the relief.

1994 - The Indians release Jack Morris, ending his career.

1996: The Tigers defeat the Yankees, 5 - 3, as DH Ruben Sierra, traded nine days ago from the Yankees, drives home all five Detroit runs with a double and 3-run homer.

1999: Umpires Union chief Richie Phillips announces that he is considering seeking an injunction from the National Labor Relations Board to stop Major League Baseball from firing on September 2nd 22 umpires who recently submitted their resignations as part of negotiations ploy.

2003 Former Tigers infielder Billy Rogell dies at age 98. He drove in 100 runs for the 1934 pennant winning Tigers. Every starter in that infield nicknamed "The Battalion of Death" had at least 96 RBIs, and a record total of 462 RBI's still a Major League record.

Tigers players and managers birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jack_Tighe
http://www.baseball-reference.com/ma...igheja99.shtml
Jack Tighe manager 1957-1958.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ralph_Houk
http://www.baseball-reference.com/ma...houkra01.shtml
Ralph Houk manager 1974-1978.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Milt_Bolling
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ollimi01.shtml
Milt Bolling 1958.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...osesje01.shtml
Gerry Moses 1974.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...aucike01.shtml
Kevin Saucier 1981-1982.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ercitr01.shtml
Troy Percival 2005.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Rogell
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ogelbi01.shtml
Billy Rogell 1930-1939.

from baseball reference
 
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Tigers 10 - Indians 3 ? When a 6th-inning ?steal? is booked as defensive indifference, you know that it?s gotten late early out there. Zach McAllister self-destructed in Detroit?s 6-run 3rd, with 4 walks dotting back-to-back 2-run doubles, all capped by a two-error play. The bulge was 8-0 before anyone reached against Max Scherzer; he allowed 4 hits and a walk in 7 innings for Detroit?s 12th win in a row, his 17th of the year and 4th straight since the Break. Asdrubal Cabrera stopped Scherzer?s scoreless string at 16 whole innings with an RBI double in the 4th, and hit another in 6th.
?It?s the 4th time this year Detroit scored exactly 10 runs in a Scherzer start; they also scored 17 for him, and are 2nd to St. Louis with 24 blowout wins (5+ run margin). On the other hand?.
?In the last calendar year (33 starts), Scherzer is 23-2 with a 2.51 ERA, 0.93 WHIP and 5.0 SO/BB (218.1 IP, 153 hits, 49 walks, 246 Ks). He?s gone 43 starts without yielding more than 5 runs, the longest such streak of the last 2 years (4 more than Hiroki Kuroda).
?Victor Martinez went 2-for-3 with RISP, now 14 for his last 30 in that respect.
?Hernan Perez is the first Tiger to score from 1st base on a single since ? ? None in the last 2 years, at least. (Of course, Miggy?s hit would be a double for anyone but an injured truck-horse.)
?OK, Ryan Raburn fanned Matt Tuiasosopo ? but he did have the platoon edge.
?Detroit?s last 4-game sweep in Cleveland was 1988.
from HighHeatStats
 
Alex Avila was re-evaluated and is cleared to play this evening. He is joining the team in New York for tonight's game. #Phew
 
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