Fri, 11/12/2010 - 09:30 by Rakhi
New York -- First basemen Albert Pujols of St. Louis and Miguel Cabrera of Detroit were honored with the Silver Slugger Award Thursday.
The award is handed out to the top offensive performer at each position in each league.
Pujols, in his 10th year in the majors, batted .312 with 42 homers and 118 RBI. His home run and RBI totals were tops in the National League. He won the honor for the third straight year and for the sixth time in his career.
Cabrera received the award for the third time after posting a .328 average with 38 homers and 126 RBI.
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Sun, 07/11/2010 - 10:29 by Rakhi
Detroit -- Miguel Cabrera touched off a Detroit homer barrage with a two-run shot in the first inning Saturday and the Tigers rolled to a 7-4 victory over Minnesota.
Alex Avila, Magglio Ordonez and Johnny Damon also homered for the Tigers, winners of five in a row.
All of the Detroit runs scored on home runs with Cabrera getting things started by delivering his 22nd of the season and running his hitting streak to a career-best 18 games.
Avila added a solo shot in the second, Ordonez hit one with the bases empty in the third and Damon produced a three-run blast in the fifth that gave Detroit a 7-3 lead.
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Tue, 10/06/2009 - 19:41 by Inderjit Singh
Birmingham -- Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera says he's sorry that a domestic assault arrest during the weekend has distracted the team from its playoff push.
Cabrera, who is leading the team with 33 home runs, a .323 batting average and 101 runs batted in, was arrested but not charged early Saturday after what police said was an altercation with his wife at their Birmingham, Mich., home following an evening of drinking at a hotel bar, The Detroit News reported.
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Wed, 09/30/2009 - 10:03 by shalini.bahadur
Detroit, Sept. 29: Magglio Ordonez and Brandon Inge each had two RBI Tuesday when the Detroit Tigers beat Minnesota 6-5 to split a doubleheader.
Minnesota won the first game 3-2 to close to within one game of Detroit in the American League Central race. Detroit's win in the nightcap pushed its lead in the division back to two games.
Miguel Cabrera hit a solo home run, walked and scored twice and Curtis Granderson homered in the bottom of the eighth for the Tigers.
Justin Verlander (18-9) gave up four runs on eight hits with eight strikeouts and no walks in eight innings for the win.
Jason Kubel's two-run double in the eighth cut the Tigers' lead to 5-4.
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Sun, 09/27/2009 - 13:00 by Inderjit Singh
Chicago -- Miguel Cabrera drove in four runs on four hits Saturday as Detroit defeated the Chicago White Sox 12-5.
The Tigers sent the minimum 12 men to the plate over the first four innings and entered the fifth trailing 5-0 before their bats came alive.
Cabrera, who put the Tigers on the board with a solo shot to left to open the fifth, reached 100 RBIs for the sixth straight season.
Curtis Granderson added three RBI on three hits, one of them a triple, and scored twice. Placido Polanco drove in two, while Gerald Laird went 3-for-5 and scored three runs for the Tigers. Magglio Ordonez, Clete Thomas and Adam Everett each had an RBI.
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Sat, 08/08/2009 - 12:01 by preet_20
Detroit, Aug. 8: Miguel Cabrera and Alex Avila hit home runs during a six-run first inning Friday, and Detroit fought off a Minnesota comeback to down the Twins 10-8.
Cabrera hit a three-run homer in the opening inning, and Avila contributed a two-run blast in only the second game of his major league career.
Each team pounded out 15 hits, and the Tigers had to sweat out the victory despite building a 9-4 lead through five innings.
Minnesota scored twice in the ninth to get within two and had the potential tying run at the plate when Fernando Rodney ended the game by striking out Orlando Cabrera.
Armando Galarraga (6-10) lasted five innings to get the victory, giving up three runs on eight hits.
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Tue, 08/04/2009 - 11:22 by preet_20
Detroit, Aug. 3: Clete Thomas homered with two outs in the ninth inning Monday to give the Detroit Tigers a 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
Miguel Cabrera had a homer and drove in three runs for the Tigers, who have won two in a row. Placido Polanco and Ramon Santiago each had an RBI in the win.
Fernando Rodney (2-2) earned the victory by pitching a perfect ninth.
Brian Roberts had a solo homer for the Orioles, who have lost four in a row and 13 of their last 17 games. Luke Scott had a two-run double and Ty Wigginton and Aubrey Huff each had an RBI in the loss.
Detroit starter Justin Verlander gave up five runs on nine hits with eight strikeouts and one walk in eight innings.
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Mon, 07/27/2009 - 11:03 by surajdogra
Detroit, July 26: Paul Konerko hit a two-run homer and Clayton Richard pitched eight innings of one-run ball Sunday to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 5-1 win over Detroit.
The White Sox scored four times in the first inning, getting two runs on a fielder's choice ground ball by Jim Thome and a throwing error by Adam Everett, and then adding two more when Konerko drove in Thome.
Gordon Beckham capped the scoring for Chicago with a second-inning solo home run and Richard (4-3) made the lead stand up, scattering five hits with two walks and three strikeouts. Tony Pena pitched a perfect ninth in a non-save situation.
The White Sox avoided a four-game sweep in Detroit and finished the weekend two games behind the first-place Tigers in the AL Central Division.
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Wed, 07/08/2009 - 11:26 by preet_20
Detroit, July 7: Placido Polanco had a homer, four RBI and two runs, and Marcus Thames drilled a three-run homer Tuesday in Detroit's 8-5 win over Kansas City.
Justin Verlander (9-4) got the win despite giving up five runs on seven hits in six innings. He struck out 11. Fernando Rodney pitched a scoreless ninth for his 18th save.
Miguel Cabrera had a solo homer for Detroit.
Bruce Chen (0-3) took the loss after giving up seven runs on four hits with five walks in 4 2/3 innings. Chen hasn't won in the majors since Oct. 2, 2005.
David DeJesus was 3-for-5 with three RBI for Kansas City, which is just 3-5 over its last eight games.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Thu, 06/25/2009 - 16:25 by preet_20
Detroit, June 24: Adam Everett's infield single drove in the go-ahead run in the sixth Wednesday and Detroit survived a ninth-inning jam to down the Chicago Cubs 5-3.
Miguel Cabrera and Gerald Laird had solo homers for the Tigers, helping them to their sixth straight victory.
In a 2-2 game, Marcus Thames drew a lead-off walk in the sixth against Rich Harden (4-4) after staying alive when catcher Geovany Soto dropped a foul pop-up. Brandon Inge drew a one-out walk and Magglio Ordonez reached on a single to load the bases.
After Gerald Laird lined out to third base, Everett beat out his infield hit to drive in Thames with the go-ahead run. Curtis Granderson then worked a walk to force in another run.
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Sat, 06/20/2009 - 12:21 by preet_20
Detroit, June 20: Marcus Thames hit two of Detroit's four homers Friday, both of them two-run shots, powering the Tigers past Milwaukee 10-4 in a game shortened by rain.
The contest was halted with one out in the bottom of the seventh after Thames had hit his second homer of the night. He also produced a blast in the first inning and Detroit got a solo shot from Miguel Cabrera in the third and a two-run homer from Curtis Granderson as part of a four-run fourth.
Armando Galarraga gave up four runs in four innings before the game went through its first rain delay of more than two hours. Zach Miner (4-1) came on after the delay and got the win by working 2 1/3 innings.
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Fri, 06/19/2009 - 12:06 by preet_20
St. Louis, June 18: Placido Polanco and Marcus Thames hit eighth-inning homers Thursday and the Detroit Tigers took advantage of a key St. Louis miscue to down the Cardinals 6-3.
The AL Central Division-leading Tigers ended a four-game losing streak and won in St. Louis for the first time in eight years. Detroit had dropped six in a row on the Cardinals' home field, including three setbacks during the 2006 World Series.
Detroit scored four times in the first, with three of the runs unearned. St. Louis cut its deficit to one through five innings, but Polanco and Thames gave the Tigers some insurance in the eighth with their homers off Jason Motte.
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