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http://www.freep.com/article/20140826/SPORTS02/308260094/chad-qualls-detroit-tigers-astros
Detroit Tigers claim Astros' Chad Qualls on revocable waivers.
freep

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/spor...able-waivers-have-one-more-day-to-make-a-deal
Tigers claim Astros’ closer Chad Qualls off revocable waivers, have one more day to make a deal.
from the OaklandPress

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2014/08/report_detroit_tigers_claim_ho.html
Detroit Tigers claim Houston Astros reliever Chad Qualls off revocable waivers.
mlive

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...os-closer-Chad-Qualls-48-hours-work-out-trade
Tigers claim Astros closer Chad Qualls, have 48 hours to work out trade.
detnews

http://motorcitybengals.com/2014/08/26/detroit-tigers-land-chad-qualls/
Detroit Tigers could land Chad Qualls.
from mcbtb

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2014/8/...rs-houston-astros-chad-qualls-claimed-waivers
Tigers trade rumors: Detroit claims Chad Qualls on waivers.
from bybtb

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/det...md=20140826&content_id=91505082&vkey=news_det
Tigers reportedly claim Astros closer Qualls.
Trade would need to be completed before Wednesday; reliever would like to stay put.
Tigers official site

http://beck.mlblogs.com/2014/08/26/tigers-reportedly-put-in-waiver-claim-on-qualls/
Tigers reportedly put in waiver claim on Qualls.
from JasonBeck'sTigersBlog
 
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Anibal Sanchez likely out for the season.

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2014/8/26/6071647/anibal-sanchez-injury-tigers-2014
Anibal Sanchez likely out for rest of 2014 season.
bybtb

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140826/SPORTS0104/308260098#ixzz3BXBFxq3I
Tigers' Anibal Sanchez ends throwing session in pain, might be out for rest of the season.
detnews

http://motorcitybengals.com/2014/08...fers-setback-miss-rest-season-detroit-tigers/
Anibal Sanchez suffers setback, could miss rest of season for Detroit Tigers.
from mcbtb

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/det...md=20140826&content_id=91537564&vkey=news_det
Anibal scratched after setback; no timetable.
Tigers star's right arm pain due to scar tissue; replacement for Saturday not set.
Tigers official site

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/spor...oncern-about-when-or-if-hell-return-to-tigers
Sanchez suffers setback in throwing session, leading to concern about when or if he?ll return to Tigers.
from the OaklandPress

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2014/08/detroit_tigers_anibal_sanchez_34.html
Detroit Tigers' Anibal Sanchez suffers setback, status now in question for remainder of season.
mlive

http://www.foxsports.com/detroit/story/sanchez-suffers-setback-won-t-start-saturday-082614
Sanchez suffers setback, won't start Saturday.
from DetroitFox

http://www.freep.com/article/201408...chez-has-setback-putting-rest-season-jeopardy
Tigers' Anibal Sanchez has setback, putting rest of season in jeopardy.
freep
 
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http://videos.mlive.com/mlive/2014/08/kalamazoo_native_derek_jeter_o.html
Webvideo Detroit Tigers fans: 'They have respect (for me) because this is where I grew up'.
mlive

Jeter: 'I've always told people I'm from Michigan'.
DETROIT -- On a fall Michigan afternoon in 1991, Derek Jeter stood wide-eyed amongst a crowd of greater than 100,000.
In Ann Arbor, at the Big House, Jeter realized there was somewhere else he could envision himself besides the infield dirt at the corner of East 161st and River Avenue in the Bronx. Perhaps at one of the parties he recalls visiting on that recruiting trip to the University of Michigan, he pictured himself as a Michigan Man -- and loved what he saw.

Boyhood dreams are limitless, though, and few have just one. Jeter, then 17, was no different. We all know which iteration of his dream he chose when the Yankees selected him with their sixth pick in the 1992 First-Year Player Draft.

Jeter is in Detroit this week to play his final regular-season series in his home state. Though the ballpark Jeter grew up visiting, like the one he grew up dreaming of playing in in New York, has been demolished within the past few years, visits to Detroit still have special meaning for him.

"I've always enjoyed coming here," Jeter said before Tuesday's game. "It brings back memories of … Tiger Stadium."

Jeter's ties to Michigan didn't end when he signed his pro contract with New York, and he never stopped considering himself a Wolverine. Though he didn't head to Ann Arbor to play for then-Michigan coach Bill Freehan as the plan had called for, he did enroll in the fall of 1992 and took a semester's worth of classes before turning his attention fully to his budding baseball career.

"You weigh pros and cons," Jeter said Tuesday of the decision he had to make. "You weigh the opportunity. … I wanted to get my career underway. This is the team that I wanted to play for. I think I made the right decision."

Jeter grew up in Kalamazoo, Mich., slightly over two hours due west of Detroit. Asked if he considers himself a Michigander, Jeter responded, "Of course."
"People ask where I'm from. I was born in New Jersey but I grew up in Michigan," Jeter said. "I've always told people I'm from Michigan."

The shortstop holds his home in such high regard that his least favorite memory of it didn't even occur in Michigan territory. Shockingly, it isn't either of New York's two American League Division Series losses to the Tigers since 2006.

Instead, it came in 1995, when he barely missed his first chance of playing in Detroit. Jeter was abruptly demoted to Triple-A right before the Yankees departed on the trip.
"There was a lot of family and friends that had to change their plans," Jeter said.

His best memory of baseball in Detroit might still be ahead of him. It could come before Wednesday's game, when he's honored in a pregame ceremony -- likely the first time Tigers fans will treat Jeter like one of their own.
"Sometimes, when I come here, I'm a sellout or I should be playing for the Tigers," Jeter said of Detroit fans' reaction to him over the years. "It wasn't my choice. I was drafted by the Yankees.
"[But] they have a respect, because this is where I grew up."
Tigers official site
 
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http://motorcitybengals.com/2014/08/26/detroit-tigers-new-york-5-2-porcello-pitches-another-gem/
Detroit Tigers beat the New York 5-2, Porcello pitches another gem.
from mcbtb

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2014/8/...ees-2-rick-porcello-dominant-eight-joe-nathan
Tigers 5 - Yankees 2: Rick Porcello dominant through eight as Joe Nathan slams the door.
from bybtb

Miguel Cabrera hit his 270th double as a Tiger in the third inning, tying him with Bobby Higginson for 10th place in team history. It was also his American League-leading 41st double of the season.

http://www.sportsmedia101.com/detro...h-combination-of-hot-hitting-strong-pitching/
Detroit Tigers Cool Off New York Yankees with Combination of Hot Hitting, Strong Pitching.
from Tigers101
 
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August 27 in Tigers and mlb history:

1912: In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the National League will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Giants' Jeff Tesreau will lead the league at 1.96. Despite an increase in .300 hitters from 22 to 32 this year, there will be 19 pitchers with ERA's under 3.00. The American League will not make ERA part of its official statistics until 1913.

1915: Detroit snaps the Red Sox win streak, stopping Boston, 7 - 6 in 12 innings.

1917: At Detroit, Ty Cobb is 3 for 4 to lead the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over the Red Sox and lefty Babe Ruth.

1946 - At the Owners' Meeting, a committee formed to study integration, which includes racist Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, delivers its secretive report defending the covert color barrier which exists in professional baseball. The absurd reasons given why blacks shouldn't be allowed to play in the big leagues include an absence of skills due to inferior training and lack of fundamentals as well as the need to respect existing Negro League contracts, but another lesser known motivation may have been profit, as revealed later in the report: "The Negro leagues rent their parks in many cities from clubs in Organized Baseball (and) Club owners in the major leagues are reluctant to give up revenues amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars every year" and the fear white fans would be driven away if black players attracted more minorities to the ballpark.

1961: Detroit's Rocky Colavito ties an American League record with four home runs - three in the second game with 6 rbi, in a doubleheader pummeling of the Senators 7 - 4 and 10 - 1 at Washington. Tigers pitcher Don Mossi improves to 14-3 in game 1, and Paul Foytack is the complete game winner in game 2.

1971: Detroit's Willie Horton is struck in the eye by a pitch from Chicago's Rich Hinton, sidelining him for 28 games. Hinton, in his first major league start, lasts 2 2/3 innings in taking the loss. Joe Coleman wins.

1972: The Tigers' Willie Horton clouts an 11th-inning 2-run home run to beat Minnesota, 5 - 3, in the opener of 2. In the nightcap, Joe Coleman pitches 11 shutout innings against Minnesota before Aurelio Rodriguez's home run gives him the 1 - 0 win. This is the 3rd win in a row for the Tigers on 11th-inning homers. Rodriguez hit one to start the streak.

2011: Justin Verlander does not pitch one of his better starts, giving up four runs, including a pair of solo homers to Luke Hughes and Jason Repko, and leaves after giving up his second hit of the day to Drew Butera, who is hitting well below the Mendoza Line, with no out in the 6th, but his teammates pick him up and he gets credit for the Tigers' 6 - 4 win over the Twins.
This makes him the major leagues' first 20-game winner this year, the first in the majors to reach the mark in August since Curt Schilling did it with Arizona in 2002, and the first for the Tigers since Bill Gullickson in 1990.
Jose Valverde picks up the save with a perfect 9th inning. He has now converted 40 straight save opportunities over two seasons, tying Dennis Eckersley for the second-longest streak in American League history, but still 14 behind Tom Gordon's record of 54.

Tigers players and managers birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/troybu01.shtml
Bun Troy 1912.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/loudeba01.shtml
Baldy Louden 1912-1913.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lindbem01.shtml
Em Lindbeck 1960.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Buddy_Bell
http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/bellbu01.shtml
Buddy Bell manager 1996-1998.

from baseball reference
 
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