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Detroit Tigers Team Notes

Trio of first-rounders in Tigers' rotation:
DETROIT -- When Max Scherzer takes the mound in Saturday night's Game 6 of the American League Championship Series, the Detroit Tigers may be tying a record that will be awfully difficult for any team to break.

Scherzer (2007) will be third straight No. 1 Draft choice to start for the Tigers against the Rangers, following Rick Porcello (2007) and Justin Verlander (2004). Verlander and Porcello were picked by the Tigers; Scherzer, who was acquired in a 2009 trade, was selected by the D-backs.

It is uncertain how often such a sequence has occurred in postseason play -- or, in fact, if any team ever lined up four consecutive first-rounders. The Giants did unleash a similar threesome in Games 3-5 of the 2010 National League Championship Series against the Phillies: Matt Cain (2002), Madison Bumgarner (2007) and Tim Lincecum (2006).

Doug Fister, scheduled to start a potential Game 7 for the Tigers, was a seventh-round Draft choice in 2006.

from the Tigers official site
 
Detroit Tigers Team Notes

Tigers unable to capitalize on walks
DETROIT -- Among the strange doings during a scintillating American League Championship Series, you can now add this to the list: Violation of one of baseball's time-honored axioms: "Walks will come back to haunt."

In the first five ALCS games, Rangers pitchers have issued 22 walks to the Tigers. And not a single ghost in the bunch: None of the 22 have scored, a remarkable example of adage-busting that has contributed to Texas' 3-2 series lead.

The costliest walks, of course, are those leading off an inning, and their damage is documented: Studies have shown that abut 40 percent of leadoff walks turn into runs.

The Rangers (or should that be the Tigers?) have taken a hammer to that one, too: eight of the unconverted walks have been to leadoff batters.

from the Tigers official site
 
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