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September 14 in Tigers and mlb history:

1910 - Detroit rookie Dave Skeels, just 17 years old, make his first and only ML appearance, surrendering eight runs on nine hits and four walks in six innings, but comes away with a win. He finishes the day and his ML career with an ERA of 12.00.

1935: The Yankees split with the American League-leading Tigers winning 2 - 1 and losing 5 - 1. Hank Greenberg, leading the AL in hitting at .346, is 0 for the afternoon, with five strikeouts. "The hooting and jeering which some of the fans turned loose against Hank wasn't much of a tribute to the sportsmanship of his home town" (New York American Daily News).

1940 - The United States, Hawaii, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico meet in the 3rd annual World Amateur Baseball Championship tourney, the first championship series to feature more than 3 participants. Cuba, the host country, is the victor for the 2nd consecutive year. The initial tourney had been held in England in 1938 and was also won by the host country, Great Britain.

1950: In Detroit, Vic Raschi posts his 20th win of the season to give New York a hard-fought 7 - 5 win. Raschi walks in two runs in the opening inning as Detroit tallies four runs, but New York comes back as Joe DiMaggio cracks his 29th home run and Johnny Mize follows a walk to Hank Bauer with his 10th homer. New York takes over first place by a half game.

1968: The Tigers rally in 9th to beat the A's 5 - 4, making Denny McLain the first thirty-game winner since Dizzy Dean reached the milestone in 1934.

1991: In the Tigers' 6 - 4 win over the Brewers, Detroit's Cecil Fielder hits a 502-foot home run, which is believed to be the first ball ever hit out of Milwaukee's County Stadium, off Dan Plesac. The ball lands in the back of a truck driven by Gary Schumacher, who doesn't stop until he is near Madison, WI.

1994 - The remainder of the baseball season is canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig after 34 days of the players' strike. There will be no World Series for the first time since 1904.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jerry_Don_Gleaton
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gleatje01.shtml
Jerry Don Gleaton 1990-1991, scout 1994-1996.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lombage01.shtml
George Lombard 2002.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Delmon_Young
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/youngde03.shtml
Delmon Young 2011-2012.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jackie_Tavener
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tavenja01.shtml
Jackie Tavener 1921, 1925-1928.

from baseball reference
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2012/09/justin_verlander_to_start_frid.html
Detroit Tigers' Doug Fister to pitch Monday vs. White Sox; Justin Verlander will start Friday.
from Mlive

http://www.freep.com/article/201209...sox-rain-out?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Detroit Tigers
Tigers, White Sox postponed (rain), will make it up Monday.
from the freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...S0104/Tigers-White-Sox-game-postponed-by-rain
Tigers-White Sox game postponed by rain.
from the detnews

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/...13&content_id=38370896&vkey=news_det&c_id=det
Tigers-White Sox finale postponed, set for Monday.
from the Tigers official site
 
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http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...383/1129/SPORTS0104/Starters-Tigers-aces-hole
Starters are Tigers' Aces in the hole.
from the detnews

Since June 12, Scherzer is 11-2 with a 2.56 ERA, and leads the majors with 220 strikeouts.

Fister is 7-2 with a 2.49 ERA since mid-July. With the Tigers, he's 7-0 in September.

Verlander is Verlander. He's had a couple dud starts lately, but is 13-8 with a 2.91 ERA and 212 strikeouts (entering Thursday), second only to Scherzer.
 
Scherzer's best start may be his quietest.
Take your pick for your favorite Max Scherzer outing this season. Most folks will point to his 15-strikeout gem against the Pirates on May 20. Others will remind you about his eight scoreless innings, with 12 strikeouts, against the Rockies four weeks later.
Quietly, though, Wednesday's was one of Scherzer's better performances.

Scherzer made one mistake on Wednesday, a fourth-inning slider that caught too much of the plate before it was caught by Kevin Youkilis' home-run swing for a one-run White Sox lead. However, Scherzer did not give up the big inning to go with it. He came close, going to three full counts. Only Paul Konerko reached base out of it, hitting a two-out single before Scherzer stranded him by retiring Alex Rios.

Scherzer went to five full counts in his six innings, one big reason his pitch count climbed to 115 and his exit came one inning earlier than manager Jim Leyland would have liked.
Scherzer wasn't happy about going to full counts in the first place. He was happy to keep it at that.
"I think there were numerous times when it was 3-2 and I was still able to throw the changeup for a strike and collect an out in that situation," Scherzer said. "When I can do that for the team, that's usually when we get good results."
His two big full-count outs around Youkilis' home run both came on the changeup, a pitch he indicated he had tweaked a bit.

As good as Scherzer's pitching has been for the past few months -- he's now 10-1 with a 2.53 ERA in his last 14 starts, allowing just 75 hits over 92 1/3 innings with 113 strikeouts -- his September stretch is a different kind of effective. He has gone 19 innings since issuing his last walk, a third-inning pass to Dewayne Wise in Comerica Park Sept. 1. He hadn't gone back-to-back outings without a walk since July of last season, a 20 2/3-inning stretch with the All-Star break in between. He proved stingy with walks the following month but gave up too much damage on hits.

These days, hitters aren't producing much damage off him at all.
"When he throws over the plate, he's tough," White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski said, "and he's been doing that for a few months now. That's why his record is what it is and his strikeout numbers are what they are and everything is just there."
from the Tigers official site
 
Avila with a different kind of bruise.
Alex Avila has a large patch of black and blue on the base of his left hand, the result of a foul tip he took on Wednesday night. But that isn't the main reason he was out of Thursday's starting lineup. Manager Jim Leyland opted for Gerald Laird against Chicago left-hander Chris Sale, though it mattered not after the game was postponed by rain.
Avila said that he could play once he gets treatment. Of course, he always says he can play.
"It's pretty sore today," Avila admitted before batting practice. "I'll try to get it loosened up a little bit."
Of all the various bumps and bruises Avila has had over the last couple of years as Detroit's regular catcher, this is a new one. He said he "messed up a little bit" and didn't flip his hand over to catch the pitch, leaving himself open to a deflection. Still, it's an unusual injury.
from the Tigers official site
 
Avisail Garcia to get a chance playing left field.
The Tigers left U.S. Cellular Field on Wednesday night with manager Jim Leyland talking about starting Delmon Young in left field, Avisail Garcia in right and Brennan Boesch at designated hitter. On Thursday he changed plans, and Garcia was scheduled to get his first start in left field as a professional before rains postponed the game.
Short-term, putting Garcia in left keeps Young at DH. It's a benefit for both defensive and offensive reasons, since it lessens the chances of aggravating the tight hamstring Young has quietly been playing through. Longer-term, though it's not a priority quite yet, it might be the first step toward finding a way to fit Garcia and fellow prospect Nick Castellanos in the same outfield someday soon.
Garcia came up through the Tigers system primarily as a right fielder, then moved to center at Double-A Erie at midseason when Castellanos moved to right. The Tigers called up Garcia at the end of August to play in right field against left-handed pitchers.

First-base coach Tom Brookens, who's in charge of outfield defense, has had Garcia working on throws from left field.
"I'm a believer that anybody that can play right field, can play left field," Brookens said. "There's no doubt that it's different. There's a little bit of adjustment."
On Thursday morning, Leyland talked on the phone with assistant general manager Al Avila, whose responsibilities include the farm system. The organizational opinion is that Garcia's athleticism should allow him to handle left just fine.
"Let me put it this way: I'd much [rather] put Garcia in left than move Boesch over to left for a game," Leyland said. "I think he'll be fine. Fly balls are fly balls."
Said Brookens: "He's got good instincts. He works at it."
from the Tigers official site
 
http://www.tangotiger.net/scout/
The 2012 Scouting Report: By the Fans, For the Fans
Background. Welcome to the Tenth Annual Fans' Scouting Report.
For those looking for past results, go here (2008 and prior) and here for 2009, for 2010. for 2011.
from TangoTiger
 
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