Red Sox SS Bogaerts, 21, Coming Of Age In Playoffs
To Red Sox teammate Jonny Gomes, it doesn't matter that Xander Bogaerts just turned 21 and had never appeared in a postseason game before this week.
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To Red Sox teammate Jonny Gomes, it doesn't matter that Xander Bogaerts just turned 21 and had never appeared in a postseason game before this week.
Verlander pitched eight scoreless innings, sealing Oakland's fate and sending the Tigers hurtling into the ALCS.
Always one to deliver in big-game, high-drama moments, though, Cabrera broke his homerless streak Thursday with a two-run bomb that gave the Tigers a lead they would never relinquish.
Online vandals forced Wikipedia to partially lock down its page on the Oakland Athletics.
Tigers fans got their wish granted last night as Detroit beat the Oakland Athletics in Game 5, with a 3-0 victory on the West Coast.
The Oakland fans tried to get under Verlander's skin with a rather humorous -- and attractive -- idea.
Justin Verlander pitched another Game 5 gem in Oakland while carrying a no-hit bid into the seventh inning, and Miguel Cabrera homered to lead the Detroit Tigers past the Athletics 3-0 Thursday night and back into the AL championship series.
For most of the season, Tiger fans worried about Justin Verlander.
The closest John Farrell would come to expressing a preference between Oakland and Detroit is to note that one is kind of far away.
After this year, it seems like the height of insanity for the Tigers to trade Max Scherzer
Their playoff hopes on the line, the Detroit Tigers are taking a gamble.
Max Scherzer helped the Detroit Tigers stave off elimination with two gutsy innings of relief, but soon he might be on the trade block.
Going into Tuesday night's game with Oakland, the Detroit Tigers found themselves in a spot they had never been in under Jim Leyland - facing elimination in Game 4 of a first round series.
In the postseason, weaknesses get exposed quickly. Sometimes they can be corrected. Sometimes a team just has to live with them and do the best it can, and that is the situation for this Detroit Tigers team.
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