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Austin Jackson will head to Cincinnati and be available to play tomorrow (Saturday).
It's 3.5 hours from Toledo.
 
Phil Coke yesterday: 1B, 2-RBI 2B, 1B. Phil Coke today: Ks, 5-3, F8, Ks. Much more familiar.

Leadoff triple for Miguel Cairo, as the ball rattles around in the right-field corner. Tigers in a huge jam.

Leadoff triple, suicide squeeze. That's how you lose 'em.

Good question. AJax in CF ... after that, it may be matchups. Probably Delmon in LF ... leaves it down to Berry/Boesch.

Leyland on FSD: Dotel couldn't pitch, was tender, some inflammation. Benoit was unavail., wanted to stay away from Coke, Villarreal.

Leyland on FSD, re: Porcello ? "He was just OK."

Leyland on FSD, re: AJax's return: "I don't have anything right now. I'll have to talk to Dave (Dombrowski) about that."

For those of you making Phil Coke the goat, he was pitching for 3rd straight day, and got Votto on huge strikeout in 8th.

Club falling apart. This one isn't doing that ? yet. He CAN be fired, but I don't see it at this point.

Right elbow inflammation for Dotel. Checked out with no serious damage, basically day-to-day'

mattmowery
 
June 9 in Tigers and mlb history:

1900 - A forerunner of today's players' union is organized in New York. Three delegates from each National League team launch the Players Protective Association and elect Chief Zimmer president. Former player Harry Taylor? of Buffalo? is the attorney. Their goal is to negotiate contracts and rules changes.

1915: The 2nd-place Tigers paste the Red Sox? 15 - 0. With lefty Ray Collins on the mound in the 3rd? Ty Cobb swipes home? one of his 3 steals on the day. His steal attempt in the first inning cuts up SS Everett Scott? forcing him to retire. The Tigers manage 17 hits? including 4 by Bobby Veach. Hooks Dauss? with 6 innings pitched? is the winner.

1916: In Detroit? consecutive doubles by Bobby Veach and George Burns stop Babe Ruth's scoreless innings streak at 25. Ruth evens the score with a longest drive ever seen at Navin Field? into the RF bleachers. When Ruth tires in the 9th? Carl Mays relieves and loses? 6 - 5.

1920: The Yankees come from behind to club the host Tigers? 13 - 6. Pacing the Yanks are Bob Meusel? with a double and two singles? and George Mogridge with a bases-loaded double before the Tigers knock him out. Babe Ruth has a single? two walks and is hit with a pitch. The Tigers are playing without Ty Cobb? out ten days with an injured knee.

1937: Mickey Cochrane is taken off Detroit's active-player roster. 3B Marv Owen is sidelined with a broken bone in his hand? and Rudy York is recalled from Toledo to replace him.

1969 - Mickey Lolich's 16 strikeouts in 9 innings ties the Detroit record he set May 23rd? but the Tigers drop a 3 - 2? 10-inning decision to Seattle. Pat Dobson is the loser. The only run off Lolich is a leadoff home run by Dick Simpson on the first pitch of the game.

1970 - Detroit's Willie Horton clubs 3 home runs? including a grand slam? knocking in 7 runs in an 8 - 3 win over Milwaukee.

1984: For the second time in a week? the Orioles' Mike Flanagan beats the Tigers? this time shutting them out? 4 - 0? out on 7 hits. The Tigers stay in front by 5 1/2 games.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Baldwin
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/baldwbi01.shtml
Billy Baldwin 1975.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Javair_Gilett
Javair Gilette strength/conditioning coach 2005-present.

from baseball reference
 
Dotel unavailable because of elbow inflammation, but they hope he'll be back on Saturday - does any inflammation clear up that fast.
tom gage
 
The Tigers;
It's shocking enough that the Tigers are in third place, five games under .500, six games behind the almost equally shocking first-place White Sox. But a much bigger shock-a-thon lurks just beneath this team's surface. Did you know that ?

Until Thursday, when Miguel Cabrera pulled them even, the Tigers had actually been outhomered (55-54) by the Mariners. Seriously. By the Mariners. All right, so Seattle has played two more games. Whatever. Tell us you predicted this -- and then please rise to hear how much time you're about to serve for perjury.

The Tigers have had one winning streak of two-plus games since April 18. One. Even the Cubs have had three.
And finally, there's this: Since their 9-3 start, the Tigers are 17-28. That's the worst record in the American League. The worst. Worse than the Twins. Worse than the A's. Worse than the Mariners. The worst. Unreal.

Yeah, this team is hurting, with Austin Jackson, Alex Avila and Doug Fister on the disabled list. But so is just about every other team in North America.
That isn't enough to explain why "other than Cabrera and Prince [Fielder], they're just not swinging at very many quality pitches," one scout said. And although Jackson's absence has been a big loss, it doesn't totally explain the Tigers' "horrendous" defense, either.

And it certainly doesn't explain why their closer, that thrill-a-minute Jose Valverde, could have had zero blown saves, a 2.24 ERA and a 1.19 WHIP last year -- and now has three blown saves, a 4.24 ERA and a 1.46 WHIP this year.
So did we all totally misjudge this team? Or is this merely a two-month mirage?
"They're a much better team than the way they've played," the scout said. "And injuries have really hurt them. If they get everyone back and ? get their offense going again, they can still get hot. But they've got to hit -- because their defense is not good."

jayson stark at espn
 
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