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MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Anibal Sanchez's bid for a second career no-hitter came close Friday, but the Tigers right-hander ended up with his fifth career one-hitter. Sanchez came two outs short, giving up a single to Joe Mauer...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Miguel Cabrera influences the outcome of games when he's hitting -- and when he walks. The defending Triple Crown winner has at least one home run in four straight games, with a total...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Questions remain about whether Jose Valverde is saving games by memory or not, but there's no question his return to the team has stabilized the bullpen. Joaquin Benoit returned to...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Is right-hander Max Scherzer now the Tigers' best pitcher? He could well be after improving to 6-0 for the season Tuesday night in Detroit's 5-1 victory at Cleveland. He doesn't have...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Tigers' manager Jim Leyland isn't worried. The Texas Rangers mauled two of his better pitches during the weekend -- Justin Verlander and Anibal Sanchez -- but Leyland is a track-...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH It's called respect. After watching Miguel Cabrera hit a pair of home runs worth four runs earlier Sunday, Texas manager Ron Washington elected to walked the defending Triple Crown...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Tigers already had lost five games this season in which they led in the seventh inning or later. Then, on Friday night, they took a one-run lead to the seventh inning in one of the most treacherous places in the league to try...

ARLINGTON, Texas _ There are times when Nelson Cruz can single-handedly keep an offense afloat. And there are times like Friday night's 2-1 loss to Detroit when he gets dragged through the undertow. On Friday, when the Rangers went a season-worst 0-...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH The message was to throw strikes and get outs. And Al Alburquerque surely must have received that Thursday when Detroit optioned the high-strikeout right-hander to Triple-A Toledo in...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH All those people who wanted to know where Justin Verlander's velocity went now have their answer: Out of the strike zone or in areas of the playing field where no one can catch it....

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH The biggest thing Detroit has going for it this season is actually five biggest things: Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Anibal Sanchez, Doug Fister and Rick Porcello. "I think we send a...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Avisail Garcia is scheduled to make his first start of 2013 in center field for Detroit. Garcia, impressive in a short September-October stint with the Tigers last season, was brought...