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Infante playing, but left ankle not at full strength.
DETROIT -- Tigers second baseman Omar Infante has been back for nearly a week now, but he's still working his left ankle back to full strength after a sprain cost him more than a month on the disabled list.

It's not there yet. Infante said it's pretty much the same as it was when he came off the DL on Monday. His movements in the field, though, are getting easier.

"I'm feeling better getting to the base," said Infante, meaning he's having less trouble pushing off his left foot and moving to his right.

Infante's been charged with one error since his return. He's made 14 putouts and 15 assists, including seven double plays, entering Saturday.
from the Tigers official site
 
Cabrera still hurting, but getting better.
DETROIT -- While it has been easy to tell that Miguel Cabrera isn't 100 percent healthy by the way he runs around the bases, he has been feeling better lately.

"What a trooper. The legs look better," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "I do check on him in the trainer's room and I go in there when they are working on him, and the bruise is starting to shrink a little bit. It was a nasty one. Overall, I think he's getting a little better."

Cabrera is battling a strained abdomen that's plagued him for the past month as well as also being hobbled by a bruise on his shin and a sore knee that he hurt in an at-bat last week against Yankees closer Mariano Rivera.

Despite the injuries, Cabrera is batting .352 with six home runs and 16 RBIs in 14 games this month.

"I'm totally amazed what I'm seeing, because I can't believe what I'm seeing, to be honest with you," Leyland said. "You just want to make sure when you see it every day that you just don't take it for granted."
from the Tigers official site
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/detroit_tigers_jim_leyland_bra_1.html
Detroit Tigers' Jim Leyland, Brayan Pena ejected in fourth inning after umpires miss call at home plate.
from Mlive

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130817&content_id=57326378&vkey=news_det&c_id=det
Leyland, Pena ejected from game vs. Royals.
from the Tigers official site

http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/mlb...ected-from-game-vs?blockID=930357&feedID=3701
Tigers' Leyland, Pena ejected from game vs. Royals.
from DetroitFox

Umpiring crew chief John Hirschbeck, on the disputed play that led to ejections of #Tigers mgr Leyland, C Pena:
Second base umpire John Hirschbeck on disputed call:
"Obviously, we didn't see it touch the bat from the bases. Out on the field, we're 120 feet away. We couldn't tell and Mike Muchlinski, who had the plate, could not tell either."

Q: So how do you make a ruling?
"That's really on me because I should've seen the ball change directions," first base umpire Bob Davidson interjected. "That's impossible for the plate guy to see because the ball is in the dirt and he's got the catcher in front of him. The only hope is that you can hear it. For me at first base, I just didn't see it hit the bat. Really, that's my fault. It's my responsibility because I got the view of it. And, I got new contacts and I still couldn't see it."

Q: Even with reply talked about, this wouldn't be reviewable, right?
"Maybe now," Davidson said, chuckling.
"We don't know," Hirschbeck said. "They said specifically balls and strikes, but it's in the infancy stages. They haven't told us any of the details."
from the Oakland Press
 
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August 18 in Tigers history:

1907: Detroit's first Sunday game at home since 1902, and the first at Bennett Park, is a 16 - 3 win over New York.

1915 - Detroit trades outfielder Baby Doll Jacobson to the Browns.

1936 - Tigers second baseman Charlie Gehringer gets his 2,000th hit.

1938: When Detroit's Billy Rogell walks his first time up, it is his seventh consecutive base on balls, a new American League record.

1961 - Ron Kline, purchased from the Angels on August 10, blanks the Red Sox on four hits to give the Tigers a 5 - 0 win. Bill Monbouquette fails for the 9th time to win his 9th, lasting just four innings and gives up homers to Billy Bruton and Rocky Colavito.

1984 - Detroit's Juan Berenguer goes 8 1/3 innings and strikes out 12 to give the Tigers a 4 - 3 victory over the Mariners. Kirk Gibson drives in three runs with his 20th homer of the year, and becomes the first Tiger ever to reach 20 in both homers and steals. Gibson's homer is his 15th game-winning RBI this year.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/humphbo01.shtml
Bob Humphreys 1962.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Consolo
Billy Consolo coach 1979-1992, 1995.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jamesbo01.shtml
Bob James 1982-1983.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bobby_Higginson
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/higgibo02.shtml
Bobby Higginson 1995-2005.

from baseball reference
 
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