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Detroit Tigers Team Notes Over 3 Million Views!!! Thankyou!

Tigers now have 8 walk-off wins this season. Only AL team with more is A's (13).
 
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Webvideo Fielder's rbi single.

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Webvideo Young's sac fly.

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Webvideo Berry's two run triple.

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Webvideo Infante advances on an error.

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Webvideo Fister k's his eighth straight batter for a New Tigers Record.

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Webvideo Fister k's butler for his ninth straight strikeout a New American League Record.

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Webvideo Prince's hustle double in the ninth inning.

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Webvideo Avila's walkoff grounder.
Brayan Pena makes a tough play at first on Alex Avila's grounder, but Don Kelly comes in to score the winning run as the Royals lose in the ninth.

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Webvideo Must C: Consecutive.
Tigers pitcher Doug Fister sets a new AL record striking out nine straight batters.

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Webvideo Fister's strong performance.
Doug Fister sets an AL record with nine straight K's and holds the Royals to two earned runs over 7 2/3 impressive innings.

from the Tigers official site
 
Leyland concerned about Porcello's availability.
Right-hander experiences a drop in velocity during Wednesday's short outing.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland had just delivered the news that Max Scherzer (deltoid strain) would be unable to make his start on Friday. Then he expressed further concern about Rick Porcello's availability for Monday.

"He is [a concern]. To me he is," Leyland said. "I'm sure he'll make [his next start], because afterwards we had everything checked out and he was fine health-wise. So if he's fine health-wise that uncomplicates some things. But I'm going to look into it today. I'm going to have a talk with him about what's going on."

Porcello threw four innings against the Royals on Wednesday night, allowing four runs on seven hits. And although he began the night hitting 92-94 mph with his fastball in the first inning, that steeply declined in the fourth.
Porcello's fastball velocity dropped between 88-90 mph, prompting the skipper to remove him from the game. Leyland said on Thursday morning that it was "alarming."

"I just didn't like the way it was coming out," he said. "I was concerned about it. He said something in the third inning and I didn't know about it at the time, but he said he had really no feel for it."

Leyland also called the drop in velocity a red flag, as it was with Scherzer when he was removed from a Sept. 18 start against Oakland with right shoulder fatigue.
"But in fairness, I think there's a possibility, and I'm hoping this is the scenario, the fact that [Porcello] hadn't been out there in 10 days had something to do with it," the skipper said. "Did it for sure? I can't answer that. I don't know. But we'll get by."

According to BrooksBaseball.net, on Sept. 10 not a single Porcello fastball between pitches 51 to 61 was below 91 mph. On Wednesday night, only one of his final 10 pitches was above 90.

Porcello said he wasn't concerned about the drop in velocity.
"I just lost command of the strike zone," he said. "I really just didn't throw the ball good at all. I was up in the zone all day. Just didn't throw the ball well."
from the Tigers official site
 
The Tigers celebrate another three million fans.
DETROIT -- For the fans, and for Comerica Park, this has been an historic season for the Tigers.
For the third time in franchise history and third time under Jim Leyland, the Tigers surpassed the three million tickets sold mark.
"It's unbelievable," Leyland said.

This season, the Tigers have seen 41 percent of games sold out at Comerica Park (33 of 81 games). It started on April 5, when on Opening Day against the Red Sox, Detroit drew 45,027 fans -- the second-largest crowd in Opening Day history and largest at Comerica Park. And two days later, 44,710 -- another record-setting crowd -- pack the park once again.

Since then, the fans have continued piling in. On Thursday, in the regular-season home finale, the Tigers hit three million fans for the first time since 2008, when a record 3,202,645 tickets were sold. It also happened in 2007, the year after Detroit went to the World Series.

Leyland said he certainly wasn't taking any credit for it, deferring to owner Mike Ilitch's willingness to bring in stars like Ivan Rodriguez, Magglio Ordonez, Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder. But he took pride in it happening under his watch.

"I'm proud of that. It's nice to be part of that," he said. "This has been some of the best times in Tigers' history it seems to me. Spirit-wise, fan-wise, emotion, so at least I've been here during that time. That's pretty good.

"Three million, when I thought about three million to be honest with you ... I thought of the Dodgers, the Cardinals, the Yankees. To be honest with you, I didn't think of Detroit. Now that it's happened three times, it's pretty impressive. These people are unbelievable".
from the Tigers official site
 
Bill Behm, the trainer whose 19-year tenure with the Tigers spanned the championship seasons of 1968 and 1984, died Thursday in Dearborn after a long illness. He was 90.

Jim Price, who played on the '68 team and is a radio broadcaster for the team, said Behm traded barbs with the players.

"He was working in very small conditions, working in that training room at Tiger Stadium," Price said. "Big part of the team. There's a connection to that '68 team, no matter what part you played. Like Al (Kaline) and I talked, it saddens us to lose anybody. ... He was unbelievable. He'd wear that white outfit. They don't do that stuff anymore."

Behm is survived by his wife, Donna, and their daughter, Annemarie. Arrangements are being handled by the Howe-Peterson Funeral Home, 22546 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn.
 
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