SB Nation Detroit - Tigers Lose Magglio Ordonez, Carlos Guillen, Game Against Blue Jayshttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48919/detroit-fave.png2010-07-24T22:15:13-04:00http://detroit.sbnation.com/rss/stream/13502542010-07-24T22:15:13-04:002010-07-24T22:15:13-04:00Tigers Drop Game Against Blue Jays, 3-2
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<p>Detroit, MI (<a href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/events/53945/recap/109966">Sports Network</a>) - <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/389/Jose_Bautista">Jose Bautista</a> knocked in two runs to back a solid outing from <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/1020/Shaun_Marcum">Shaun Marcum</a> as Toronto clipped Detroit, 3-2, in the second of a four-game set from Comerica Park.</p>
<p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/864/Vernon_Wells">Vernon Wells</a> drove in the other for the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/teams/TOR">Blue Jays</a>, who showed no signs of slowing down following a Friday rain out and snapped a two-game slide.</p>
<p>Marcum (9-4) yielded eight hits and a pair of runs over 5 2/3 frames, fanning five with one walk to register his third win in four starts.</p>
<p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/427/Miguel_Cabrera">Miguel Cabrera</a> had two hits and drove in a run for the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/teams/DET">Tigers</a>, who lost slugger <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/275/Magglio_Ordonez">Magglio Ordonez</a> to a fractured right ankle and second baseman <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/308/Carlos_Guillen">Carlos Guillen</a> to a leg injury.</p>
<p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/32033/Rick_Porcello">Rick Porcello</a> (4-8) gave up five hits and three runs with four walks over six innings in defeat for Detroit, which has dropped eight of its last 10 games.</p>
https://detroit.sbnation.com/2010/7/24/1586533/tigers-drop-game-against-blue-jaysSean Yuille2010-07-24T21:16:42-04:002010-07-24T21:16:42-04:00Injury Bug Nails Tigers In Big Way
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<p>Two Tigers left tonight's game against the Blue Jays with injuries.</p>
<p>Magglio Ordonez fractured his right ankle while sliding into home in the bottom of the third inning. He was already dealing with a sore ankle, and now he is expected to be out six to eight weeks because of this injury. Ramon Santiago came into the game to take Ordonez's place as the designated hitter.</p>
<p>A couple innings later, Carlos Guillen left the game with a right calf strain. Scott Sizemore was forced to take his spot at second base, leaving the Tigers' dugout a little empty. Only Alex Avila and Johnny Damon are left on the bench, and Damon wasn't in the lineup tonight because he is sick.</p>
<p>Currently, the Tigers trail the Blue Jays by a score of 3-2 in the bottom of the seventh inning. It would obviously be nice if they could come back and win this one, but regardless of the outcome of tonight's game, there is a ton of concern about the Tigers going forward with Ordonez now out for quite some time and Guillen injured as well.</p>
https://detroit.sbnation.com/2010/7/24/1586467/detroit-tigers-injury-magglio-ordonez-carlos-guillenSean Yuille2010-07-24T16:53:37-04:002010-07-24T16:53:37-04:00Let's Try This Again: Tigers, Rick Porcello Take On Blue Jays
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<p>(<a href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/events/53945/preview/109915">Sports Network</a>) - <span>Miguel Cabrera</span>'s primary goal is to help the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/teams/DET">Detroit Tigers</a> capture an American League Central title. Still, one would think the possibility of becoming baseball's first Triple Crown winner in 43 years has got to cross the All-Star first baseman's mind at times.</p>
<p>Cabrera continues that quest and tries to lead the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/DET">Tigers</a> to a third straight win when the Tigers once again try to play the second test of their four-game series with the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/teams/TOR">Toronto Blue Jays</a> from Comerica Park.</p>
<p>Friday's tilt was postponed by rain and will be made up on Sunday as part of a doubleheader.</p>
<p>Detroit drew first blood in this set with a 5-2 triumph in Thursday's opener, with Cabrera coming up with the contest's biggest hit. The standout slugger snapped a 2-2 tie with an run-scoring double in the eighth inning, capping off a 3-for-4, two-RBI day.</p>
<p>Cabrera's final hit ignited a three-run frame for the Tigers, with <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/271/Ryan_Raburn">Ryan Raburn</a> following with an RBI single and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/102/Gerald_Laird">Gerald Laird</a> later tacking on a sacrifice fly. The clutch double also made a winner out of fellow All-Star <span>Justin Verlander</span> (12-5), as the Detroit ace yielded just two runs and scattered eight hits before giving way to closer <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/587/Jose_Valverde">Jose Valverde</a> to start the ninth.</p>
<p>Thursday's performance raised Cabrera's major league-leading RBI total to 85, while his .347 average trails only Texas' <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/440/Josh_Hamilton">Josh Hamilton</a> for the best in the AL. He also has 24 home runs on the season, topped only by Toronto's <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/389/Jose_Bautista">Jose Bautista</a> for the AL lead in that category.</p>
<p>"Every time he comes up, I'm like, 'OK, here we go,'" shortstop <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/31846/Danny_Worth">Danny Worth</a> told the Tigers' official site of Cabrera.</p>
<p>The win was the second in a row for Detroit following a season-worst string of seven straight losses and moved the club within two games of idle Chicago for first place in the AL Central.</p>
<p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/263/John_Buck">John Buck</a> accounted for all of Toronto's scoring with a two-run homer off Verlander in the second inning. Starting pitcher <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/32499/Ricky_Romero">Ricky Romero</a> (7-7) held the Tigers to two runs over the first seven frames, but was removed after walking <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/601/Johnny_Damon">Johnny Damon</a> to start the bottom of the eighth. Damon would cross the plate with the go-ahead run on Cabrera's double against reliever <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/335/Shawn_Camp">Shawn Camp</a>.</p>
<p>"I think I battled all game," Romero said to Toronto's website afterward. "It's a tough lineup. I made some good pitches when I had to and got some good double plays when I had to. It's a tough loss."</p>
<p>The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/TOR">Blue Jays</a> have now lost three of four since opening a current 10-game road trip with three straight wins over the hapless <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/teams/BAL">Baltimore Orioles</a>. They'll try to bounce back tonight behind <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/1020/Shaun_Marcum">Shaun Marcum</a>, who had a hand in one of the victories in the Baltimore series.</p>
<p>Making his first start since July 1, Marcum allowed nine hits in five innings but did not walk a batter and managed to limit the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/BAL">Orioles</a> to one run in a 10-1 Blue Jays' rout this past Sunday. The 28-year-old had been shut down for a couple of weeks after experiencing inflammation in his surgically-repaired right elbow.</p>
<p>Marcum missed the entire 2009 season recovering from the procedure but has made a nice comeback, having compiled an 8-4 record with a very solid 3.36 ERA through 18 starts and striking out 92 batters in 112 1/3 innings. He's also held his own on the road, where the righty has gone 5-2 with a 4.14 ERA in 10 outings.</p>
<p>In five career appearances -- two of which have come in a starting role -- against Detroit, Marcum is 1-1 with a 5.28 ERA. Both those starts came during the 2008 campaign, including a Comerica Park assignment in which he tossed six innings of two-run ball to notch a win.</p>
<p>The Tigers counter with youngster <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/32033/Rick_Porcello">Rick Porcello</a>, with the former first-round draft choice aiming to build off an excellent return to the majors last Saturday. The talented right-hander permitted just one run on six hits and did not issue a walk over eight innings against Cleveland, although he wound up with a no-decision in a game that eventually went into extra frames.</p>
<p>A 14-game winner who finished third in voting for the AL's Rookie of the Year Award last season, Porcello experienced a serious sophomore slump during the first half of 2010. The 21-year-old produced a 4-7 record and a substandard 6.14 ERA in 13 starts before being optioned to Triple-A Toledo on June 20, but posted a more-respectable 3.21 ERA in four games with the Mud Hens.</p>
<p>Porcello faced the Blue Jays twice as a rookie in 2009 and split a pair of decisions while recording a 4.91 ERA in 11 innings. The win took place at Comerica Park in September, with the highly-regarded hurler surrendering just two runs and four hits over a sharp six-inning stint.</p>
<p>Thursday's clash was the first 2010 meeting between these teams. Toronto prevailed in five of eight encounters with the Tigers last season, with the clubs splitting a four-game set in the Motor City from September 11-14.</p>
https://detroit.sbnation.com/2010/7/24/2318335/lets-try-this-again-tigers-rick-porcello-take-on-blue-jaysSean Yuille