Tag Archives: Detroit Tigers

A Bittersweet Time of Year

A love fall.  I really enjoy summer, but I think the fall is my favorite season of the year.  The temperatures are still comfortable, but the summer humidity is gone out of the air.  It’s a great time to be outside, whether attending a baseball or football game, or just doing yard work.  One of [...]

Trade Deadline Thoughts

Several trades took place today before we hit the trade deadline at 4:00 ET.  I’m not going to cover all of the trades here, but you can check out MLB Trade Rumors for all of the trade news.  For now, I just want to talk about a few of the trades that stick out to [...]

Cubs Win First Two Against Reds

The Cubs have taken the first two games against the Reds by scores of 8-5 (Friday) and 5-3 (Saturday).  In the Cubs last nine games since the All-Star break, they are 7-2. In the two games against the Reds, Alfonso Soriano is  4-for-8 with a homerun and an RBI.  It’s an incredibly small sample size, [...]

Cubs Drop First Two to Tigers

The Cubs dropped their third game in a row and the second to the Tigers on Wednesday, losing 5-3.  The Cubs left 13 runners on base and were 1-15 with runners in scoring position.  Rich Harden only gave up two earned runs on four hits in 5.1 innings.  He also walked four and struckout three. On [...]

Cubs Drop One-Game Series to Braves

The Cubs made a quick side trip to Atlanta to play a game that was rained out earlier this year.  The results were not good, although there were some very good things to take from the game.  For instance, Ryan Dempster had a good outing even though he picked up the loss.  He went 6 [...]

Cubs Sweep Indians

For the first time in a long time, the Cubs swept a series, this time against Cleveland.  The first two games of the series, the Cubs needed extra inning to secure the victories.  But yesterday, the Northsiders won the game 6-2 and they got it done in just nine innings. In Sunday’s game, Randy Wells [...]