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Dirks to resume rehab assignment after day off.
The Tigers are expecting Andy Dirks to continue his Minor League rehab assignment with Triple-A Toledo on Thursday night.

Dirks was removed from his start at Class A West Michigan during the fourth inning Tuesday after he felt his left hamstring grab while chasing down a fly ball.

The Tigers don't consider the issue overly concerning, as manager Brad Ausmus said Dirks will continue playing "unless the hamstring ends up more sore than expected."

Dirks is recovering from back surgery and hasn't played in the big leagues this season. He began the rehab assignment on Friday.
Tigers official site
 
Miggy given rare reprieve for finale vs. Yanks.
Miguel Cabrera was not in the Tigers' starting lineup on Thursday, receiving just his second day off this season.

A few days ago, manager Brad Ausmus told Cabrera, who had played in 110 of the Tigers' 111 games before the finale vs. the Yankees, that he was going to get one of the day games off during the team's nine-game road trip.

Cabrera, the two-time defending American League Most Valuable Player Award winner, is hitting .310 with 17 home runs and 84 RBIs.

Cabrera's power numbers have been down a bit this year. Last season, Cabrera hit his 17th home run on June 1. He has hit .330 or better every year since 2011. And while he's on pace for 118 RBIs this season, he drove in 137 runs last year and 139 the year before.

But, as Ausmus said, the problem with the expectations for Cabrera is that they come from a comparison to past seasons of himself.

"Miguel Cabrera's swing is so good that even when he's not right he gets his hits," Ausmus said. "There's not many people you can say that about."
Tigers official site
 
Worth noting

? Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter missed his second consecutive game Thursday with a left hand contusion after being hit by a pitch on Tuesday.

Hunter did not break any bones, but the hand is still swollen. It has subsided enough that he is able to close his hand into a fist, but he's still expected to miss a couple more days.

? Tigers shortstop Eugenio Suarez's injured left knee has improved, but he was out of the lineup again on Thursday mainly due to how well Andrew Romine has been swinging the bat.
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2014/08/yankees_tigers_rick_porcello.html
Yankees 1 - Tigers 0: Bats silent again for Detroit; Rick Porcello suffers loss despite strong start.
mlive

http://www.freep.com/article/20140807/SPORTS02/308070184/detroit-tigers-yankees
Detroit Tigers struggle offensively, drop series finale to Yankees, 1-0.
freep

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/g...014_08_07_detmlb_nyamlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det
Porcello's strong effort goes unrewarded in Bronx.
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/g...d=det#gid=2014_08_07_detmlb_nyamlb_1&mode=box
Boxscore.
Tigers official site

http://newenglishd.com/2014/08/07/how-was-the-game-august-7-2014/
How Was The Game? (August 7, 2014).
from the nedtb

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...ers-bats-fizzle-series-finale-against-Yankees
Tigers bats fizzle in series finale against Yankees.
detnews

http://motorcitybengals.com/2014/08...ruggles-fall-new-york-yankees-third-game-row/
Rick Porcello shines but the Detroit offense struggles as they fall to the New York Yankees for the third game in a row.
from mcbtb
 
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Tigers offense - which had been better away from home - has disappeared last 7 road games. Tigers scored 25 Runs in 4 Games to start last road trip.

but since then, Tigers have scored 8 Runs in last 7 road games, In 231 AB, Tigers have hit .160/.200/.225 - w/ just 9 XBH, 9BB/59K.
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2014/08/offense.html
Analysis: Detroit Tigers 9-12 since All-Star break due to dismal offensive outputs by several players.
mlive

The Tigers were second in the majors -- first in the American League -- in both batting average (.280) and OPS (.778) prior to the All-Star break.
In 21 games since the break, they rank 22nd in the majors in batting average (.235) and 20th in OPS (.649).

The Tigers averaged 4.80 runs per game prior to the All-Star break. They have averaged 3.76 runs since.

They have scored five runs or more just five times in 21 games since then. They are 5-0 in those games.
They are 4-3 in the seven games in which they have scored four runs.
They are 0-9 when scoring three runs or fewer during that stretch.

Tigers are 9-12 since the All-Star break. That's 5-1 against the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies, a pair of National League also-rans, and 4-11 against American League opponents.

Tigers with their numbers before and after the break:

Ian Kinsler
Before: .303 average, .806 OPS
After: .216 average, .500 OPS

Victor Martinez
Before: .328 average, .991 OPS
After: .308 average, .772 OPS

J.D. Martinez
Before: .346 average, 1.035 OPS
After: .185 average, .577 OPS

Alex Avila
Before: .230 average, .728 OPS
After: .170 average, .526 OPS

Eugenio Suarez
Before: .265 average, .774 OPS
After: .222 average, .561 OPS

Nick Castellanos is 2 for 23 with no RBIs and 10 strikeouts in August.

add in the impatient at bats against sinker ball pitchers and all the ground outs to the infield and gidp.

dumb at bats = out scouted, out managed, and Wally Joyner's head on a stick.
 
August 8 in Tigers and mlb history:

1903: Furious when an old black ball is put into play when Cleveland is at bat in the last of the 11th and his objections are ignored by umpire Tom Connolly? Naps manager Nap Lajoie hurls the ball over the grandstand? suffering the loss of the game to Detroit by forfeit. Detroit was leading 6 - 5.

1920: Detroit Tigers pitcher Howard Ehmke wins the American League's shortest game ever when he defeats the New York Yankees 1 - 0, in one hour and thirteen minutes. With no outs and two on in the 5th inning? the Yanks fail to capitalize as Ping Bodie falls for the hidden ball trick applied by 2B Ralph Young.

1945 - A line drive of the bat of Hank Greenberg fractures the skull of pitcher Jim Wilson, resulting in two hours of surgery. Wilson will recover and pitch in the majors until 1958.

1991 - The Detroit Tigers fan a team record 21 times in a 14-inning 4 - 0 win over the Blue Jays. Mark Salas hits a 3-run pinch homer off Tom Henke in the top of the 14th. Mickey Tettleton follows one out later with another homer. Starters Bill Gullickson and Tom Candiotti match zeroes for 7 innings.

2001: Tigers P Nate Cornejo makes his major league debut against Rangers P Joaquin Benoit. It is the first time since August 21? 1990? that both starting pitchers are making their big league debuts. The Tigers tie a modern record by scoring 13 runs in the 9th inning to snap a 6 - 6 tie and roll 19 - 6. Damion Easley gets 6 hits? including 2 in the 9th? to tie an American League and team record? last done by Ty Cobb. The winning pitcher is former Ranger Danny Patterson? who faces one batter in the 8th.

2004: The Red Sox defeat the Tigers 11 - 9? despite 7 Detroit home runs. Tim Wakefield records the win for Boston despite tying a major league record by allowing 6 of the homers. Wakefield is the 6th modern pitcher to yield 6 round-trippers? but the first since Philadelphia's George Caster did so 64 years ago against the Red Sox. The last pitcher to give up 6 homers and still win the game was Brooklyn's Hollis Thurston in 1932.

2005: The Tigers defeat the Blue Jays 9 - 8? in 12 innings despite getting outhit 20 to 15. DH Rondell White, and RF Magglio Ordonez both have 2 rbi. SS Carlos Guillen hits a homerun.

2013 - Detroit wins its 12th straight game, 10 - 3 over Cleveland, completing a four-game sweep of its closest rivals in the AL Central. Max Scherzer improves to 17-1. The last pitcher to have such a mark was Roger Clemens in 2001, and only two others, Don Newcombe (1955) and Roy Face (1959), who both had records of 18-1 at one point, have done it since Rube Marquard started the 1912 season 19-0.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jack_Smith_(smithja02)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithja02.shtml?redir
Jack Smith 1912.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/holloke01.shtml
Ken Holloway 1922-1928.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stuarma01.shtml
Marlin Stuart 1949-1952.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Frank_Howard
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/howarfr01.shtml?redir
Frank Howard 1972-1973.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/i/iviemi01.shtml
Mike Ivie 1982-1983.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gomezal01.shtml
Alexis Gomez 2005-2006.

from baseball reference
 
August 8 in Tigers and mlb history:

1903: Furious when an old black ball is put into play when Cleveland is at bat in the last of the 11th and his objections are ignored by umpire Tom Connolly? Naps manager Nap Lajoie hurls the ball over the grandstand? suffering the loss of the game to Detroit by forfeit. Detroit was leading 6 - 5.

1920: Detroit Tigers pitcher Howard Ehmke wins the American League's shortest game ever when he defeats the New York Yankees 1 - 0, in one hour and thirteen minutes. With no outs and two on in the 5th inning? the Yanks fail to capitalize as Ping Bodie falls for the hidden ball trick applied by 2B Ralph Young.

1945 - A line drive of the bat of Hank Greenberg fractures the skull of pitcher Jim Wilson, resulting in two hours of surgery. Wilson will recover and pitch in the majors until 1958.

1991 - The Detroit Tigers fan a team record 21 times in a 14-inning 4 - 0 win over the Blue Jays. Mark Salas hits a 3-run pinch homer off Tom Henke in the top of the 14th. Mickey Tettleton follows one out later with another homer. Starters Bill Gullickson and Tom Candiotti match zeroes for 7 innings.

2001: Tigers P Nate Cornejo makes his major league debut against Rangers P Joaquin Benoit. It is the first time since August 21? 1990? that both starting pitchers are making their big league debuts. The Tigers tie a modern record by scoring 13 runs in the 9th inning to snap a 6 - 6 tie and roll 19 - 6. Damion Easley gets 6 hits? including 2 in the 9th? to tie an American League and team record? last done by Ty Cobb. The winning pitcher is former Ranger Danny Patterson? who faces one batter in the 8th.

2004: The Red Sox defeat the Tigers 11 - 9? despite 7 Detroit home runs. Tim Wakefield records the win for Boston despite tying a major league record by allowing 6 of the homers. Wakefield is the 6th modern pitcher to yield 6 round-trippers? but the first since Philadelphia's George Caster did so 64 years ago against the Red Sox. The last pitcher to give up 6 homers and still win the game was Brooklyn's Hollis Thurston in 1932.

2005: The Tigers defeat the Blue Jays 9 - 8? in 12 innings despite getting outhit 20 to 15. DH Rondell White, and RF Magglio Ordonez both have 2 rbi. SS Carlos Guillen hits a homerun.

2013 - Detroit wins its 12th straight game, 10 - 3 over Cleveland, completing a four-game sweep of its closest rivals in the AL Central. Max Scherzer improves to 17-1. The last pitcher to have such a mark was Roger Clemens in 2001, and only two others, Don Newcombe (1955) and Roy Face (1959), who both had records of 18-1 at one point, have done it since Rube Marquard started the 1912 season 19-0.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jack_Smith_(smithja02)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithja02.shtml?redir
Jack Smith 1912.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/holloke01.shtml
Ken Holloway 1922-1928.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stuarma01.shtml
Marlin Stuart 1949-1952.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Frank_Howard
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/howarfr01.shtml?redir
Frank Howard 1972-1973.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/i/iviemi01.shtml
Mike Ivie 1982-1983.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gomezal01.shtml
Alexis Gomez 2005-2006.

from baseball reference
 
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