Hunter Furious With Ump [VIDEO]
Torii Hunter's first game back with the Minnesota Twins ended with the outfielder yelling at plate umpire Joe West.
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Torii Hunter's first game back with the Minnesota Twins ended with the outfielder yelling at plate umpire Joe West.
"There is no weakness of Cabrera" Hunter laughed.
The Detroit Tigers will start the season Monday with one major change and a lot of question marks.
Long before any of that major league money starts landing in their bank accounts, most players are in a similar predicament as everyone else in the regular workforce.
The Twins have two of the top prospects in baseball in their farm system in Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano, but they'll probably start the season in the Minors. Until they reach MLB, the club can still be excited by the arrival of Vargas, who right at the start of 2015 should bring a pure power presence the Twins were really lacking for much of last season.
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The Tigers face the Baltimore Orioles in the AL Division Series.
Throughout a topsy-turvy first season as manager of the Detroit Tigers, Brad Ausmus has been careful not to show any sign of panic — even when his team was stumbling through a terrible stretch in late May or struggling to keep pace in August.
Whether the Tigers find their form Sunday or not, back-to-back blowout losses to the last-place Twins leave a sour taste for the team.
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The Tigers had a chance to clinch their fourth-straight A.L. Central Division title with a win and a Royals loss; the Royals beat the White Sox, 3-1.
The Tigers, who have already clinched a postseason berth, can wrap up a fourth straight division championship as early as Friday.
After J.D. Martinez hit a three-run home run to give Detroit a 3-2 lead in the top of the ninth, Trevor Plouffe drew a one-out walk against Joe Nathan (4-4) and was replaced by pinch-runner Doug Bernier.
The Tigers lost a 6-0 lead, but after Joe Mauer's second two-run single tied the game for the Twins in the eighth inning, Hunter hit the first pitch of the ninth from Casey Fien into the bullpen behind left-center field.
Detroit trials Kansas City by two games in the AL Central and is one back of Seattle for the second AL wild card.
Coming off a much-needed victory and sending Max Scherzer to the mound should have the Detroit Tigers feeling confident heading into their series finale with the Minnesota Twins.
Justin Verlander returned to help the Tigers take the second game of Saturday's doubleheader.
The Twins scored seven runs off starter Buck Farmer, who lasted just 1.1 innings and ran his ERA to 15.63 in his second career start.
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Trevor May was better Monday night, but it wasn't enough for the Minnesota Twins.
The Kansas City Royals scored seven runs in the second inning. Then they really started hitting the ball.
Eduardo Nunez was caught straying too far from first base.
The Southfield Police Department launched a search for 29-year-old Christian Cook, who was last seen on Sunday, Sept. 13.
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Parents at Lakeview High School in St. Clair Shores are outraged by a policy requiring female students to share personal health information.
An NCAA football committee says that while it cannot overturn Western Michigan's loss to Michigan earlier this month, it acknowledges the game would have had a different outcome if replay protocols were followed.
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A federal lawsuit says the University of Michigan wrongly denied in-state tuition to the son of a Foreign Service officer and a USAID employee who declared Ann Arbor as their permanent home while stationed abroad.
Parents at Lakeview High School in St. Clair Shores are outraged by a policy requiring female students to share personal health information.
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Myles Straw had two hits and an RBI, Max Scherzer allowed one run in five innings for his second win in four starts and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tigers 5-1, ending Detroit's winning streak at six.
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The Fed increased its benchmark rate by 0.25 percentage points to battle resurgent inflation driven by soaring energy prices.
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An NCAA football committee says that while it cannot overturn Western Michigan's loss to Michigan earlier this month, it acknowledges the game would have had a different outcome if replay protocols were followed.
Myles Straw had two hits and an RBI, Max Scherzer allowed one run in five innings for his second win in four starts and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tigers 5-1, ending Detroit's winning streak at six.
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Spencer Torkelson hit a three-run homer, Drew Anderson pitched five shutout innings and the Detroit Tigers won their sixth straight game by thumping the Toronto Blue Jays 10-1.
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Parents at Lakeview High School in St. Clair Shores are outraged by a policy requiring female students to share personal health information. The rule appears in a gym class syllabus and requires female students to disclose their menstrual cycle lengths to make up for swim days.
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