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Tigers Fall to Angels Drew Smyly struck out 11 batters… but the Tigers fell to the Angels 2-1 last night. Los Angeles finally figured Smyly out in the sixth, and broke through for two runs. Al Alburquerque and Blaine Hardy pitched scoreless relief to keep it close. Detroit’s only run …

Tigers Defeat Angels Max Scherzer struck out 11, as the Tigers beat the Angels 6-4 last night. Scherzer went seven innings, to earn his 12th victory of the season. His only rough spot was the fifth… when he gave up three runs. Detroit responded with three runs in the sixth… …

Tigers Bomb Diamondbacks The Tigers scored five runs in the fourth inning… and pulled away from the Diamondbacks 11-5 yesterday afternoon. Austin Jackson’s bases-loaded double was the big blow in that fourth inning. Arizona came back… scoring three runs off Anibal Sanchez in the fifth… and single runs in the …

Tigers Fall to D’Backs Torii Hunter singled in two runs in the top of the eighth to give the Tigers a one-run lead… but Phil Coke and Al Alburquerque walked the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth… Ian Kroll gave up a two-run single… and the Tigers lost …

From Finlandia University Athletics Finlandia University women’s volleyball coach Kristan Schuster has announced that eight players have committed to play volleyball for Finlandia in 2014. Five of these players are incoming freshman, one is a junior college transfer, and the other two have been students at Finlandia. Lynnette Hokenson is a 5’11” …

Tigers Edge D’Backs The Tigers took an early lead with homers by Torii Hunter and Austin Jackson… and held on to beat the Diamondbacks 4-3 last night. Arizona came back to tie the game in the sixth inning… but Miguel Cabrera’s long fly ball in the seventh drove in Jackson …

Tigers Salvage One from Indians Drew Smyly held the Indians to just four hits over seven innings, and the Tigers snapped their three-game losing streak with a 5-1 victory yesterday. The Tigers opened the scoring early with two runs in the first inning. Torii Hunter added a two-run homer in …

Tigers Lose Twice to Indians Drew VerHagen pitched four shutout innings in his major league debut… but the Cleveland batters figured him out in the fifth, and beat the Tigers 6-2 in the first of two games yesterday. VerHagen struck out four of the first six batters he faced. Cleveland …

Andrew Lund of Calumet won the half-marathon at the Portage Canal Run Saturday, with a time of 1:26:02.7. Daisuke Minakata of Houghton placed second… more than two-and-a-half minutes off the pace. Matt Wong from Houghton came in two seconds later to clinch third place. Christina Carradine from Marquette was the …

Tigers Blow Lead, Fall to Indians For six innings, the Indians could do nothing against Anibal Sanchez. In the seventh, they erupted for seven runs, and went on to beat the Tigers 9-3. Sanchez was charged with four of those seven inning runs. Ian Kroll gave up an rbi double …