Tigers 3, Royals 2
Starting pitcher Justin Verlander gets his first win in dramatic fashion as the Detroit Tigers beat Kansas City Royals 3-2 on Monday.
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Starting pitcher Justin Verlander gets his first win in dramatic fashion as the Detroit Tigers beat Kansas City Royals 3-2 on Monday.
Justin Verlander has pitched well in each of his first two starts, though he doesn't have a win to show for those efforts.
Justin Verlander was nearly perfect for eight innings, but proved he's human in the ninth.
Ben Zobrist hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the ninth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays scored four runs in their final at-bat to beat Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers 4-2 on Wednesday.
The Detroit Tigers are off to their best start in six years.
In honor of Passover this weekend, I have 4 very important questions regarding our Tigers and how it impacts the season.
There's always something special about opening day in Detroit. The fans who start arriving in the middle of the night for their tailgate parties. The signs and tents popping up all over downtown. The green grass and perfectly groomed field at Comerica Park. The optimism and enthusiasm that the Tigers will win it all.
Lots of baseball debates are fun, even more fun when beer-fueled. But we're one game into the Tigers season and we've already stumbled across the dumbest debate ever.
Jose Valverde walked off the field to a chorus of boos and you might say they were premature.
Justin Verlander: He erased any doubt he is capable of repeating his MVP performance of 2011.
How does Jim Leyland feel about predictions the team could go all the way in 2012?
Tigers: If Detroit doesn't win this division by at least 10 or 15 games, something's wrong.
Justin Verlander tuned up for opening day with a crisp outing in his final spring start and the Detroit Tigers beat the Atlanta Braves 2-1 on Saturday in a game called after six innings due to rain.
After giving up four hits and two runs to the first five batters he faced, Justin Verlander made an adjustment.
Following his monumental 2011 season, Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander has been the face of a video game and even his own cereal, "Fastball Flakes."
Justin Verlander hardly needed to win the American League Most Valuable Player and Cy Young Awards to boost his confidence.
Tagged for a home run on his third pitch of the game, Justin Verlander quickly reverted to form.
Karsch and Anderson are down in Lakeland, Florida for the Detroit Tigers Spring Training game this week.
Justin Verlander vowed last year that he would take every game seriously, even in spring training. After a season in which he was the AL MVP and unanimously won the Cy Young Award, he found no reason to change his focus.
Verlander is coming off an MVP/Cy Young season but don't expect a big drop-off because he's still on the uphill side of 30.
Every now and then, Justin Verlander will read that some team or another is thinking of going with a six-man starting rotation.
Every now and then, Justin Verlander will read that some team or another is thinking of going with a six-man starting rotation.
Verlander is coming off an MVP/Cy Young season but don't expect a big drop-off because he's still on the uphill side of 30.
There is a new cereal in town and Detroit Tiger baseball fans are sure to love it.
Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander is introducing his very own cereal in time for the start of the 2012 baseball season. The cereal is called "FASTBALL FLAKES" and is now on sale at Detroit area Meijer stores.
