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To: twmoore who wrote (206945)	4/1/2011 5:23:20 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 361447

Rock on.

To: twmoore who wrote (206945)	4/25/2011 2:59:35 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 361447

Jim Leyland finds winning Tigers formula: consistent lineup & more from starters ______________________________________________________________ By Bill Simonson The Grand Rapids Press Monday, April 25, 2011 I want to say some kind words about Jim Leyland. Thank you so much for running out your best lineup every day in the Chicago White Sox series. No typical Sunday off for most of his big guns as Leyland played for the sweep and not tomorrow, or the second half of the season. It worked. The Tigers looked the best they have all season in this series and are 7-3 in their past 10. Another thing I like is Leyland letting his starters go deeper in games when they are pitching well. The rotation has been stellar of late. If you get to the eighth inning with Joaquin Benoit and Jose Valverde coming at you for an inning apiece, the Tigers are tough to beat. I think the slow start at the beginning of the year was good for the Tigers and Leyland. With the media and fans on Leyland and some of the players, it lit a fire in them that brought an overdue sense of urgency. How long have we been screaming at our radios and TVs about Leyland’s lineup, or taking out a pitcher who was getting the job done? It’s not rocket science to pencil in your best hitters and ride your best arms. I do think we need to give Tigers pitching coach Rick Knapp some love for the job he has done with the starters and bullpen to get them throwing strikes and getting people out. Dominant outings by Rick Porcello and Brad Penny in the past week is just what the Tigers needed. The bullpen with Ryan Perry back has settled down. Brayan Villarreal and Al Alburquerque have arms that can help this team all season. The seventh-inning relief rotation hasn’t been needed because Leyland has gone against his normal mindset and is letting the starters go deeper into games. There isn’t a left-hander I like in that bullpen, and the Tigers don’t need to play the percentage game when Benoit and Valverde have the final two innings covered. When the starters and bullpen are this good, life is good in Detroit. A rediscovered swagger at the plate also has helped the Tigers. Alex Avila’s early-season comeback from minor league swings to looking like an All-Star is stunning. Nobody saw this coming. Avila, Brennan Boesch, Jhonny Peralta and Miguel Cabrera enabled the Tigers to hang on until the manager and some players could figure things out. When Austin Jackson hits the baseball and gets on base, it makes the Tigers such a different team. The weekend sweep shows that when your leadoff guy is seeing the ball well, it kick-starts the entire lineup. Even with Victor Martinez out (strained groin), Magglio Ordonez still not getting great swings at the plate and Jackson only hitting in the past three games, the Tigers found a way to claw back within 1 1/2 games of first place in the American League Central. The fact Leyland has stuck with his hot hitters and stayed with his successful starters longer is a huge part of the Tigers finally playing the baseball we have wanted to see since the All-Star break last year. Even third base coach Gene Lamont, who normally is a human stop sign and doesn’t send runners, has been more aggressive of late. If Jackson can keep doing what he did over the weekend, the Tigers will score a ton of runs. I like Ryan Raburn at second base and in the No. 2 spot in the batting order. Ordonez will have to start hitting more to keep Cabrera from seeing a ton of intentional walks. When Martinez comes back, Boesch can slide into the No. 3 spot in the lineup and would see plenty of pitches to hit. Ordonez might have to drop down in the batting order if he can’t boost his batting average. Will Ryhmes and Casper Wells have a lot of heart, but their lack of offensive consistency probably means one or both will be back at Toledo within the month when the Tigers get healthy. Considering the lineup roulette Leyland played early in the season, injuries, Porcello’s and Penny’s early pitching struggles and half of the lineup not hitting, the Tigers are fortunate the AL Central is wide open and they weren’t 10 games out of first place three weeks into the season. Now, they look like the team we expected to see out of spring training. The recent managerial moves have made the game of baseball much easier to enjoy as a fan. If Leyland keeps this up, he just might get a chance to get back to another World Series in 2011.

To: twmoore who wrote (206945)	5/5/2011 6:26:18 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 361447

Yankees’ Losing Streak Hits Three as Tigers Win Finale 6-3 By Erik Matuszewski May 5 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Yankees were beaten 6-3 by the Detroit Tigers for their first three-game losing streak of the Major League Baseball season. The Tigers scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to snap a 2-2 tie at Comerica Park in Detroit. Brandon Inge hit a sacrifice fly off losing pitcher A.J. Burnett to give Detroit the lead and the Tigers scored two more runs on a throwing error by shortstop Eduardo Nunez, who started in place of Derek Jeter. Brennan Boesch drove in the other three runs for the Tigers, who won the final three games of the four-game series. Before its winning streak, Detroit (15-17) had lost seven consecutive games. The Yankees (17-12) had one previous losing streak this season, dropping two in a row against the Chicago White Sox last month. Nunez and Eric Chavez each drove in a run for New York, which has scored four runs over the last three games. Chavez, who started at third base in place of Alex Rodriguez, left with a leg injury in the fourth inning after hitting his first triple since 2007. Rodriguez scored the Yankees’ final run on a ninth-inning single by Brett Gardner. Nunez was playing in place of Jeter, who left last night’s loss to Detroit because of a sore right hip. The Yankees head to Texas and open a three-game series against the defending American League-champion Rangers tomorrow. Detroit next plays a four-game series in Toronto. To contact the reporter on this story: Erik Matuszewski in New York at matuszewski@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Sillup at msillup@bloomberg.net Last Updated: May 5, 2011 16:15 EDT