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Kinsler's walk-off HR gives Tigers big 8-6 win.
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Webvideo Tigers' Victor Martinez: We needed this series.
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Webvideo Tigers' Brad Ausmus: Kinsler's our hottest hitter.
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Watch this awesome squirrel interrupt the Tigers game.
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http://www.blessyouboys.com/2015/8/6/9110703/detroit-tigers-kansas-city-royals-recap-ian-kinsler
Tigers 8 - Royals 6: Ian Kinsler walks it off.
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http://motorcitybengals.com/2015/08...-tigers-to-walk-off-series-victor-against-kc/
Detroit Tigers' Ian Kinsler leads Tigers to Walk Off Series Victory against royals.
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http://www.sportsmedia101.com/detro...alkoff-series-win-against-kansas-city-royals/
Ian Kinsler Propels Detroit Tigers to Walkoff, Series Win Against Kansas City Royals.
from Tigers101
 
August 7 in Tigers and mlb history:

1952 - Umpire Bill McGowan is suspended indefinitely by the American League. In a game in St. Louis, McGowan had thrown out Tiger P Billy Hoeft, who had been heckling him from the dugout. When St. Louis writers, who have had a stormy relationship over the years with the veteran McGowan, ask him to identify the player, the umpire refuses, then adds an obscene gesture. The writers' complaint results in a suspension.

1955 - After a 12-17 record in July, the Yankees are in a 4-team race. Tiger Frank Lary beats New York 4 - 2 in game one, and New York then earns a critical 3 - 2 10th-inning win on a Mickey Mantle homer off Babe Birrer.

1978 - Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail are inducted at Cooperstown.

1985 - A five-year agreement between the union and owners, which includes salary arbitration eligibility increasing from two years to three years, ends the two-day mid-season players' strike. The season will resume tomorrow.

2002: In a historic move, major league baseball players end their long-held opposition to mandatory drug testing by agreeing to be tested for illegal steroids beginning in 2003.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hattecl01.shtml
Clyde Hatter 1935, 1937.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/flemile01.shtml
Les Fleming 1939.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/houttar01.shtml?redir
Art Houtteman 1945-1950, 1952-1953.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Rocky_Bridges
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bridgro01.shtml?redir
Rocky Bridges 1959-1960.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Steve_Kemp
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kempst01.shtml?redir
Steve Kemp 1977-1981.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/renteed01.shtml
Edgar Renteria 2008.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bobby_Veach
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/veachbo01.shtml?redir
Bobby Veach 1912-1923.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcdermi03.shtml
Mickey McDermott 1958.

from baseball reference
 
There have been a lot of intriguing story lines in Detroit sports this year, mostly focusing on defections of iconic sports figures in this town.

Max Scherzer, Ndamukong Suh, Mike Babcock and now Dave Dombrowski have all left town in the same calendar year, but perhaps the most intriguing and unanswered question of the year is ?what happened with Dombrowski and Mike Ilitch??

It is an odd thing, the timing after pulling off universally praised trade deadline sales to set the team back into contention for the foreseeable future. The way it was handled and everything else.

Things we do know, or sorta know:

Al Avila signed a GM contract on Saturday
Dombrowski was fired on Tuesday
Ilitch fired him through a phone call
DD kinda knew it was coming on Monday night
There was no reason given to DD other than ?a new direction?
There can be some theories here:

Either Dombrowski balked at signing an extension and wanted to be a free agent before resigning with Detroit, making Ilitch upset, hence the unusual in-season firing.
Maybe DD wanted out, made it clear this was his final year here and Ilitch decided to move on after the trading deadline deals.
DD wanted Ilitch to commit to an extension, and when he did not, he asked to be released.
Ownership and DD did not agree on the sell course of action
It is very strange how it all went down. Ilitch is usually a loyal guy, sometimes to a fault (see the length of the Randy Smith era for proof). He has to be thankful for the job Dombrowski did, at least up until the last couple seasons, so why dump him in such a course manner and not let DD say goodbye in a press conference (as sometimes happens if it was ?mutual?) or show up himself?

Detroit media scalawag Gregg Henson has a theory through a, uh, confidential GM source, saying DD mentioned the possibility of becoming Toronto Blue Jays GM after the season during the David Price negotiations.

Interesting if true, but rumors and unnamed sources are far from truth, but it could possible explain why Al Avila, who has been with DD for two decades, would go behind his back and sign a contract, wouldn?t it?

http://gregghenson.com/why-dave-dombrowski-was-fired/
Why Dave Dombrowski Was Fired.
 
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