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August 10 in Tigers and mlb history:

1911 - The Detroit club announces that a new grandstand, costing $300,000, will be built for the 1912 season.

1915: In Washington, Detroit 3B Ossie Vitt is hit by a Walter Johnson fastball and, after being knocked out for five minutes, leaves the game with a concussion. A rattled Johnson then allows four runs in the first inning, two runs on a 2-run homer by George Burns, and another four through the 6th inning to lose (he will be 17-2 at home this year). Ty Cobb, observing Johnson's fear of hitting a batter, will begin to crowd the plate on the Washington ace from here on. Cobb will average .435 for the rest of his career against Walter, after topping .222 only once in the previous eight years.

1924 - Ty Cobb steals second base once, third base twice, and home once in the Tigers' 13 - 7 win over Boston that puts them on top in the American League.

1966 - Chuck Dressen dies of a heart attack in Detroit, age 67. He had managed the Tigers earlier in the season.

1971: Sixteen baseball researchers at Cooperstown form the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), with founder Robert Davids as president.

1995: The Tigers trade P Mike Henneman to the Astros in exchange for a player to be named.

1999: Major league umpires drop the federal lawsuit which they filed July 26.

2001: The Royals defeat the Tigers, 7 - 3, in a game marked by a 6th-inning brawl set off when Kansas City 1B Mike Sweeney charges Detroit P Jeff Weaver after Weaver calls him a profane name. Numerous punches are thrown as both benches and bullpens clear. After a 12-minute delay, the game resumes with Sweeney, KC coach Al Nipper, and Detroit coach Doug Mansolino ejected from the contest. Sweeney will be suspended 10 games for his actions, and Detroit catcher Robert Fick eight games. Five other players and four coaches will also be disciplined.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bu...Rocky_Colavito
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...olavro01.shtml
Rocky Colavito 1960-1963.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Brookens
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...rookto01.shtml
Tom Brookens 1979-1988, coach 2010-present.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...nderjo03.shtml
Josh Anderson 2009.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lyonbr01.shtml
Brandon Lyon 2009.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jeff_Frazier
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...razije01.shtml
Jeff Frazier 2010.

Tigers players and managers who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chuck_Dressen
http://www.baseball-reference.com/ma...ressch01.shtml
Chuck Dressen manager 1963-1966.

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Justin Verlander responds to jack jabroni clark's insinuations.
Albert Pujols is threatening to take legal action against former Major League slugger Jack Clark for accusing him of taking steroids. Justin Verlander, about whom Clark speculated as well, might be thinking about the same thing, though when asked, he replied, "I don't really want to get into that with you guys."

Asked if it was fair to consider, Verlander said, "It could be, yeah. Obviously, I'm pretty upset, so I'm trying to bite my tongue here and say the right things."
No matter what he said, though, Verlander's anger was evident in regard to Clark's comments on St. Louis radio station WGNU.
Per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, shortly after midnight on Saturday, the company that had put Clark and co-host Kevin Slaten on the air announced that the two had been dismissed.

"Verlander was like Nolan Ryan. He threw 97, 98, 100 miles an hour from the first inning to the ninth inning," Clark said, according to a report in the Post-Dispatch. "He got that big contract, now he can barely reach 92, 93. What happened to it? He has no arm problems, nothing's wrong. It's just the signs are there.

"The greed ... They juice up, they grab the money, and it's just a free pass to steal is the way I look at it."

Verlander's velocity numbers -- both for the season and in recent starts -- counter what Clark is arguing. Still, Verlander didn't hide his displeasure.

"Look at the source," he said. "I don't know this guy. He doesn't know me. Clearly, there's no merit for what he's talking about.

"He's not watching me pitch, clearly, because if he is, he would have seen my last start, right? He's saying I'm struggling to hit 93, 94. I averaged 97 and hit 100 in my last start. Clearly, he doesn't know what he's talking about, and it's moronic to talk about someone who you know nothing about and clearly -- as I just stated -- he's not watching."

Verlander has publicly supported Major League Baseball's efforts against performance-enhancing drugs, including Monday's suspensions of 13 players, among them teammate Jhonny Peralta.

Asked if groundless accusations such as this one are part of the fallout, Verlander said, "It's troublesome that in this day and age, with no merit or anything, somebody can just throw a name in just because he feels like, in his opinion, I'm having a down year because I've lost velocity, which clearly wasn't the case. Then, all of a sudden, I'm having to deal with this, just because I have a big name. It is what it is."
from the Tigers official site



http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/jack_clark_fired_from_talk_rad.html
Jack Clark fired from talk radio gig after PED accusions aimed at Tigers ace Justin Verlander.
from Mlive
 
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After an MLB review, Andy Dirks has been charged with an error on that Tyler Flowers liner on July 25 vs. Chicago. Was originally ruled a 2B.

That scoring change makes all four runs in the inning unearned for Justin Verlander.
 
Scherzer acknowledges role in first ejection.
Max Scherzer can carry on a clubhouse debate as well as anybody on the Tigers. He can even give Justin Verlander a good back and forth. Despite that, he had never said anything to earn an ejection until Friday night, when home-plate umpire Will Little tossed him for arguing a called third strike on Torii Hunter in the seventh inning.

Scherzer owned up to it. He wasn't the only one chirping about the call, he said, but he admitted, "I was the one who spoke last."
Scherzer wasn't in the game. He was tossed from the dugout. He's hardly the first Tigers pitcher to suffer that fate. Rick Porcello was ejected from the dugout two years ago against the Angels. Jeremy Bonderman had it happen more than once during his previous Tigers tenure.
Normally, those ejections lead to a minor fine from Major League Baseball, but nothing more.
from the Tigers official site
 
With handle on timing, Jackson in hitting groove.
Austin Jackson credited an adjustment at the plate and better timing on his reaction to pitches for his recent hitting. Friday's 4-for-6, three-double performance was his third consecutive multihit effort.

He entered Saturday with eight hits over the past three days, six of them for extra bases. He has been pulling the ball into the gap in left-center field with more consistency, allowing him to take advantage of his speed.

"When your timing's off, everything's out of whack, really," Jackson said. "You're trying to fix other things and not seeing the ball as well, not on time for pitches -- you're up there guessing a lot instead of just being ready to hit."

The difference is big. Just a few days ago, manager Jim Leyland was talking about giving Jackson a game off and letting him take a rest and clear his head. That's not going to happen while he's hitting like this.
"He had a heckuva night, obviously," Leyland said.
from the Tigers official site
 
Miggy's blast has Tigers, opponents a-buzz.
Miguel Cabrera was earning comparisons to Rocky for his at-bat against Mariano Rivera on Friday night.
"I kiddingly said to [bench coach] Gene Lamont: 'If he hits one here, he's the greatest of all time,'" manager Jim Leyland said. "I just shook my head. I couldn't believe it."
A day later and back in the Tigers lineup, Cabrera was earning comparisons to something more like the Terminator.

"That guy, he's amazing," Alex Rodriguez said Saturday morning. "That was a joke. Everyone thought he was dead. It was like the movies, you've got to shoot him to make sure he's dead. I knew he wasn't coming out of the game. I said, 'Don't fall for that bait of limping around.' He's a dangerous guy."

Though Leyland waited until he could check on Cabrera before putting out a lineup, few were falling for the possibility that he would sit Saturday morning, either.
Cabrera had a large bandage on his left shin, where he fouled off one of those Rivera pitches in the ninth, but his knee wasn't wrapped. His knee, which he was clutching Friday night, wasn't wrapped, and he was moving around without any obvious trouble.

Meanwhile, Cabrera continues to play through the abdominal strain that has limited his mobility for more than a month.
"He's been banged up a little bit anyway, so he hasn't been moving really good," Leyland said.

Other than Prince Fielder and Victor Martinez switching spots, a move that was already planned a few days ago, the only changes in the Tigers' lineup came in the supporting cast. Don Kelly started in left field over Andy Dirks, and Alex Avila returned to catch after leaving Thursday's game with concussion-like symptoms.
 
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