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http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/...gs-albert-pujols-justin-verlander-shawn-green
Jack Clark digs deep for drug accusations against Pujols, others....Verlander.
from SBNation

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/base...cle_9afc6d86-6a7f-5e49-b636-2f893df579a1.html
clark accuses Pujols of steroid use. and Verlander.

GFY clark. yeah and how about you doing steroids with those hirsute eyebrows from another planet. and you look like your parents were first cousins.

http://www.freep.com/article/2013080...stin-verlander
Justin Verlander having a down year? Must be steroids, says former MLB player Jack Clark.
from the freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130809/SPORTS0104/308090114/1129/rss15
Irate Tigers ace Justin Verlander calls ex-MLB star's drug speculation 'moronic'.
from the detnews

http://opoutofleftfield.blogspot.com/2013/08/verlander-answers-former-big-leaguer.html
Verlander answers former big-leaguer and Shit Stain Jack Clark's PED allegations: 'Clearly, he doesn't know what he's talking about'.
from the OaklandPress

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2013/8/9/4605846/jack-clark-justin-verlander-PED
Jack Clark accuses Justin Verlander of using PEDs.
from bybtb

http://motorcitybengals.com/2013/08/09/jack-clark-accuses-justin-verlaner-of-ped-use/
Jack Clark Accuses Justin Verlander of PED Use.
from mcb-tb

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2013/8/...clark-ped-use-accusation-steroids-moronic-mlb
Justin Verlander answers Jack Clark's PED use accusation, calls it 'moronic'.
bybtb

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/detroit_tigers_justin_verlande_102.html
Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander denies using PEDs, calling accusation 'moronic'.
from Mlive
 
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Most wins in Tigers' first 113 games of a season, last 40 years:
Joe Coleman, 18, 1973
Max Scherzer, 17, 2013
Justin Verlander, 16, 2011
 
kalinecountry said:
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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http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/detroit_tigers_catcher_alex_av_7.html
Detroit Tigers catcher Alex Avila cleared to play tonight after being checked for possible concussion.
from Mlive

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130809&content_id=56414200&vkey=news_det&c_id=det
Avila cleared to play Friday after taking foul tip.
from the Tigers official site
 
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Max Scherzer was the 4th fastest active pitcher to 1,000 career strikeouts (957 IP). Others were Dotel, Lincecum and Johan, per Elias.
 
Iglesias could bring more hardware home to Detroit.
No team has ever swept its league's MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards. But thanks to the Jose Iglesias trade, the Tigers might have a chance.

Miguel Cabrera's season, though he leads just one of the Triple Crown categories to date, has him in contention to repeat as American League MVP. Max Scherzer's 17-1 record and secondary stats will put him in the conversation for Cy Young. And with last week's trade for Iglesias, the Tigers acquired a serious Rookie of the Year contender.

CBSSports.com's Awards Watch segment has Iglesias at the top of the field for AL Rookie of the Year, though Rays outfielder Wil Myers is coming on strong.

The Tigers have won the last two AL MVP Awards, and Justin Verlander added Cy Young honors two years ago.

Manager Jim Leyland has only had the chance to see Iglesias at shortstop for a few days this week, and at third base for a few games last weekend as well as in June with Boston. Even so, the young infielder has made an immediate impression.

"I can tell you in the short period of time [around him] what he is: He is a very bright young man, very smart and very baseball smart," Leyland said, "and very street smart. Very impressive. I really like him a lot."

He's also very young, and he looks even younger than his tender age of 22.

"He looks like a kid that might be in a station wagon with a bunch of other kids stopping at McDonald's after the game," Leyland joked.
from the Tigers official site
 
Exercising caution, Tigers extend Infante's rehab.
The Tigers appear set to give Omar Infante a few more days on his rehab assignment at Triple-A Toledo to make sure his previously sprained left ankle can hold up for the stretch run.
Infante played second base for the Mud Hens on Thursday without trouble despite a slide into him at the bag, according to manager Jim Leyland.

"I think he'll probably play the weekend," Leyland said on Friday. "I would say possibly, if everything goes right, [we'll] shoot for possibly Monday. But don't hold me to that."
Infante entered Friday night's game for the Mud Hens having gone 2-for-8 with a pair of singles. He began his rehab assignment on Tuesday with a game at designated hitter but was scratched from Wednesday's game with lingering soreness in the ankle. That's the reason for the Tigers' abundance of caution.

Fellow infielder Ramon Santiago said on Friday that his left leg feels "much better than yesterday," though he still wasn't in the lineup. Santiago felt soreness in a muscle behind his left knee running out a ball on Thursday, and it tightened on him to the point that he had to exit the game.
"I was scared yesterday," Santiago said.
from the Tigers officiakl site
 
Scherzer in good company with 1,000th K.
Max Scherzer still isn't making a big deal about his win-loss record, even at 17-1, and he probably never will. That's a team accomplishment, he said, more than anything he has done.

His 1,000th strikeout, however, brought a smile to his face. Jason Kipnis ' first-inning swing-and-miss on Thursday made Scherzer the 469th pitcher in Major League history to hit the mark, and the 60th active hurler.

The pace with which Scherzer reached 1,000, however, stands out. Scherzer needed 957 Major League innings to get there, the fourth-lowest total of any active pitcher according to Elias Sports Bureau. Scherzer's teammate Octavio Dotel needed just 820 1/3 innings; San Francisco's Tim Lincecum had the fastest pace of active starters, with 896 1/3 innings. Johan Santana beat Scherzer to 1,000 with 947 2/3 innings.

"The thousand K's, that means more," Scherzer said. "That takes pitching effectively for many years. That's something I feel I've done, and lately I've gotten better at generating swings-and-misses. And so to get it within basically five-plus years, to me that means a lot."
from the Tigers official site
 
Jackson reaping rewards of aggression on basepaths.
Give Austin Jackson credit: When it was suggested to him that he looks more aggressive on the basepaths in recent days, he was aggressive with a quick retort.
"I think it's just more excitement, being happy that I got a hit," Jackson said with a smile.

He is definitely hitting for better contact. Thursday marked his third consecutive multihit game after going a month and a half without two such efforts in a row. Just as impressive, though, has been the way he has attacked the basepaths on his hits.

Jackson saw second base from the outset in the 14th inning on Wednesday before aggressively taking third on Torii Hunter's ensuing flyout to right. He stretched out a triple to left-center, his first triple since July 10, on Thursday, then dared New York's Curtis Granderson to try to throw him out on a two-out ground ball to left-center on Friday night.

Eventually, he admitted that he's looking for extra bases out of the box rather than simply reacting.
"Really, I think I'm trying to be aggressive on a ball in the gap or down the line," he said. "I'm trying to go around first with the intent to get to second."
from the Tigers official site
 
http://www.freep.com/article/201308...oit-3-10-inn-Tigers-winning-streak-snapped-12
New York 4 - Detroit 3 (10 inn.): Tigers' winning streak snapped at 12.
from the freep

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/detroit_tigers_12-game_winning.html
Detroit Tigers' 12-game winning streak ends despite Miguel Cabrera's ninth-inning home run.
from Mlive

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...ankees-win-10?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports
Miguel Cabrera's homer gives Tigers reprieve but Yankees win in 10.
from the detnews

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/g...013_08_09_detmlb_nyamlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det
Despite Cabrera's heroics, Tigers' winning streak ends.
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/g...d=det#gid=2013_08_09_detmlb_nyamlb_1&mode=box
Boxscore.
from the Tigers official site

http://wapc.mlb.com/det/play/search/?game_pk=348461&tagName=More From This Game
Webvideo highlights from tonights game.

http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/mlb...e-Cabreras-heroics?blockID=928015&feedID=3701
Streak ends despite Cabrera's heroics.
from DetroitFox

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2013/8/...nth-inning-home-run-mariano-rivera-blown-save
Yankees 4 - Tigers 3: The winning streak ends, no fault of Miguel Cabrera.
from bybtb
 
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