A's Fans Geared Up For ALDS Game 5 Elimination Showdown With Detroit
Anticipation is heightened for a do-or-die ALDS Game 5 at the Coliseum between the A's and the Detroit Tigers.
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Anticipation is heightened for a do-or-die ALDS Game 5 at the Coliseum between the A's and the Detroit Tigers.
Powerful as it is, the Detroit Tigers offense sometimes hits the skids. It might blow the doors off an opposing defense, or it might suffer through a prolonged scoreless streak.
Max Scherzer escaped a major jam in relief and the Detroit Tigers - helped by two fans who reached out to try to reel in Victor Martinez's disputed home run.
If Max Scherzer had not locked up every vote for the American League Cy Young already, he probably converted any remaining doubters with his gutsy performance as a reliever Tuesday.
Max Scherzer escaped a major jam in relief and the Detroit Tigers - helped by two fans who reached out to try to reel in Victor Martinez's disputed home run - rallied past the Oakland Athletics 8-6 on Tuesday to force a decisive fifth game in their AL division series.
With flashy plays and overall solid defense, Jose Iglesias quickly made Detroit Tigers fans forget all about suspended shortstop Jhonny Peralta, at least in the field.
Sanchez takes the mound Monday for Game 3 between the Tigers and Athletics after the teams split a pair of pulsating one-run games in Oakland.
Stephen Vogt hit a bases-loaded single in the ninth inning giving Oakland the 1-0 victory Saturday night that tied its AL division series with the Detroit Tigers at one game apiece.
For the past few weeks, we've heard far too much about what the Tigers don't have and not enough about what they do.
The Tigers were in control in the AL Central throughout September, so they didn't need Miguel Cabrera at full speed. They could use a healthier version of him now, heading into the division series against the Athletics.
Max Scherzer, Detroit's 21-game winner, will start the AL division series opener Friday night at Oakland, with star Justin Verlander following in Game 2.
The Tigers scored four times in the ninth off the A's Grant Balfour (0-3). A two-out walk set up Victor Martinez' RBI single, then Torii Hunter homered as the Tigers avoided a sweep.
The Oakland Athletics have swung the bats well during their first two days in Detroit, and are seeking a third consecutive victory over the Tigers on Wednesday evening.
Coco Crisp may not have the most powerful bat in Oakland's lineup, but he certainly picks good times to go deep.Crisp will try to lead the Athletics to a second straight win on Tuesday evening against the Detroit Tigers.
Austin Jackson homered and drove in three runs, Torii Hunter added two doubles and a triple, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Oakland A's 10-1 Sunday.
Justin Verlander outpitched Brett Anderson to do in the Athletics again, and Prince Fielder homered for the second straight day as the Detroit Tigers slowed down one of baseball's hottest teams with a 7-3 victory Saturday.
The Oakland Athletics are off to their best start in more than two decades, but to keep rolling they made need Bartolo Colon to solve his woes against the Detroit Tigers.
The 22-year-old right-hander dominated three levels of the minors last year, earning Detroit's Minor League Pitcher of the Year Award.
It ended the only way it could have ended after this postseason run, with one of baseball's oldest franchises planting its flag as baseball's newest measuring stick.
One by one, Justin Verlander, Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera fell short in the season's final test.
The SF Giants may be under the radar, unappreciated and unexpected. But they're unassailable, the winner of two World Series titles in the last three years.
While a majority of San Francisco Giants fans had to stay in the Bay Area to watch and cheer their team, many made the trek to Detroit to see their team win the World Series.
Jeremy Affeldt was first. Then Santiago Casilla came on and got the ball to Sergio Romo, who closed it out for San Francisco.
What a thrill for Giants fans: the team clinched its second World Series win in three years, after winning Game 4 in Detroit with a 4-3 victory. It's the team's second World Series win in three years, and especially thrilling this time around considering the Giants swept the Tigers this time around.
Game 4 was the most exciting game of the World Series – a back-and-forth affair that took 10 innings to decide. In the end, though, the result was the same: a Giants victory. Here are five things you didn't know about the game.
