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The lineup card for downtown Detroit hotels is filled ahead of Friday's Detroit Tigers home opener.
Alex Avila homered and had a career-high five RBIs to back an effective pitching performance by Justin Verlander, and the Detroit Tigers ended the Baltimore Orioles' unbeaten run with a 7-3 victory Wednesday night.
The Baltimore Orioles are undefeated through four games for the first time in 14 years. With a chance to open 5-0 for the first time in more than four decades, they'll turn to yet another unproven pitcher.
The Detroit Tigers plan to offer fans much more than just a baseball game for the home opener against Kansas City on Friday.
But you can't tell us, all August, like Skip does, "this game is no more important than a game in April," than not emphasize a game like tonight.
Justin Verlander said he would start as scheduled Wednesday at Baltimore although he had some kind of food poisoning late last week in New York.
Phil Coke's relief pitching days might end Wednesday, if they didn't Sunday.
Rick Porcello allowed a three-run home run and that was his undoing. Porcello was lifted after five innings, having allowed the home run in the fifth
No matter how slow the Tigers start out you must put it in context of a 162-game season. Talk to me after 15 games.
"That's been our nemesis so far, obviously," Manager Jim Leyland said after Baltimore used a three-run shot to improve to 4-0 and drop Detroit to 1-3. "A home run with a couple of guys on, that's hurt us in all of our games really up to this point."
Brian Roberts hit a three-run homer, Jake Arrieta allowed one run in six innings and the unbeaten Baltimore Orioles thrilled a sellout crowd in their home opener by defeating the Detroit Tigers 5-1 Monday.
Joel Zumaya (right elbow surgery in July 2010) experienced pain in the elbow during his Feb. 27 spring debut and hasn't pitched since. He went on the 15-day disabled list March 30, and he was scheduled to visit Dr. James Andrews on April 4.
After finishing at the bottom of the AL East each of the last three seasons, the Baltimore Orioles find themselves in an unfamiliar position early in 2011.
The odds of reserve outfielder Brennan Boesch starting Monday in Baltimore are pretty close to 100 percent.
Miguel Cabrera hit a pair of two-run homers, Brennan Boesch had a two-run shot among four hits and four RBI, and the Detroit Tigers outslugged the New York Yankees 10-7 Sunday for their first win of the season.
Phil Hughes was good enough over his first 16 starts of 2010 to make the All-Star team, but the remainder of his season - and a disastrous AL championship series - raised some concerns about his long-term potential.
A.J. Burnett took a steady first step as he aims to bounce back from a wobbly season and Mark Teixeira hit his second three-run homer in two games, sending the New York Yankees to a 10-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday.
One of the major question marks for the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers involves their rotations after their aces. Next in line for both clubs are former teammates looking to prove themselves.
The Tigers must win at least one game this weekend. They have to, or the season is done. History backs me up here. The last time the Tigers lost each game of their season-opening series was 2008.
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Miguel Cabrera was shaking his right hand after taking a bad throw by 3B Brandon Inge in the seventh inning.
Curtis Granderson hit a go-ahead homer leading off the seventh inning and Mark Teixeira had a three-run shot off Justin Verlander, lifting New York over the Detroit Tigers 6-3 Thursday in the first regular-season game played in the Bronx in March.
Darth Vader's theme music blared from the speakers at Yankee Stadium while the team worked out under sunny skies as if the Yankees needed a reminder that they are indeed still the "Evil Empire" and not the underdogs that they have been labeled.
