NEW: Denny McLains Tigers Report June 18
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Jun 21st, 2010 | 
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Denny McLain’s Detroit Tiger Report Denny’s weekly Tigers Report, brought to you by In Play! magazine.
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Posted by: jack on Jun 21st, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Tigers
Be the first! This really made my night…
Posted by: Leelanau Sports Guy on Jun 15th, 2010 | Filed under: Michigan State Spartans
Michigan State Basketball Coach Tom Izzo has decided to turn down the Cleveland Cavaliers offer and stay at MSU. I had a feeling all along this would happen, but to finally have it confirmed is great news!
Denny McLains Tigers Report June 4
Posted by: jack on Jun 7th, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Tigers
Denny’s weekly Tigers Report, brought to you by In Play! magazine, can be heard every Friday morning at 8:50am on 100.7 FM The Rock.
Tags: Detroit Tigers2010 Red Bull Air Race Championship highlights – Windsor
Posted by: jack on Jun 7th, 2010 | Filed under: Sports Guy says...
Red Bull Air Races Highlights – Windsor, Ontario
Sunday Finale 2010 Red Bull Air Race Championship.
News, interviews and photos including Matt Hall’s near crash into the Detroit River.
News, interviews and photos including Matt Hall’s near crash into the Detroit River.
What happened today in baseball history – May 6
Posted by: jack on May 6th, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Tigers
| 1906 | At Pittsburgh’s Exposition Park, the Pirates become the team to the cover the grass to prevent it from getting wet during a rain storm. A canvas tarp is used to keep the infield dry for tomorrow’s contest against the Cubs. |
| 1915 | At the Polo Grounds, Red Sox rookie pitcher Babe Ruth collects three hits, including his first home run. Homer number one, as well as homer number two, hit two weeks later, comes off Yankees’ hurler Jack ‘Crab’ Warhop. |
| 1917 | For the second consecutive day, a Browns’ hurler throws a no-hitter as Bob Groom keeps the White Sox hitless in the second game of a twin bill,1925 Ty Cobb hits his fifth home run in two games tying 1884 Cap Anson’s record. 3-0. The Belleville, Illinois native also pitches two hitless innings in the first game. |
| 1925 | Ty Cobb hits his fifth home run in two games tying 1884 Cap Anson’s record. The Tiger outfielder paces his club to an 11-4 victory over the Browns at Sportsman’s Park. |
| 1929 | The American League announces it will discontinue the league’s MVP award. |
| 1934 | At Fenway, the Red Sox hit four consecutive triples (Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell and Bucky Walters) en route to a 14-4 win over the Tigers. |
| 1937 | Dodger and Giants fans attending afternoon ball games at both the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field are thrilled to have the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Hindenberg over the New York nearing the end of its maiden voyage of the season from Germany. A few hours later, the majestic German zeppelin will explode on a landing strip in Lakehurst, N.J. killing 36 of its passengers. |
| 1951 | In the second game of a doubleheader at Braves Field, Cliff Chambers throws a no-hitter against the Braves. The Pirates’ southpaw walks eight batters in the 3-0 victory |
| 1953 | In his first major league start, Alva Lee Holloman no-hits the A’s, 6-0. The Browns’ rookie will never pitch another complete game, and ‘Bobo’ will win only three games in his one-year career in the majors. |
| 1956 | The Cincinnati sweep the Phillies in a doubleheader at Crosley Field, 10-2 and 11-9. Reds outfielder Gus Bell takes reliever Bob Miller deep in both ends of a doubleheader. |
| 1968 | Giants’ reliever Lindy McDaniel sets a National League record playing his 225th consecutive game without committing an error. The streak includes 108 chances handled successfully since June 16, 1964. |
| 1974 | A’s pitcher Paul Linblad’s major league streak of 385 consecutive errorless games ends when he makes an errant throw in a 6-3 loss to the Orioles. |
| 1978 | After going deep on deep as a pinch hitter on May 2, Lee Lacy becomes the first major leaguer to pinch- hit home runs in consecutive at-bats. The Dodgers’ super sub will make it three in a row on May 17. |
| 1982 | Beating the Yankees at Kingdome, 7-3, Gaylord Perry becomes the 15th major league player to win 300 games. The ‘Ancient Mariner’ will end his 22-year career with 314 victories. |
| 1983 | In a 4-2 California victory over Detroit at Tiger Stadium, Rod Carew, with his 3-for-4 performance, raises his present batting average to .500 (48-for 96). The Angels’ first baseman will finish the season at .339, second best in the AL as Wade Boggs leads the league with .361 pace. |
| 1994 | The Cubs 10-1 victory over the Pirates ends Anthony Young’s 29-game losing streak as a starter and snaps Chicago’s record 14-game drought at home. The hard-luck pitcher set major league record with 27 consecutive losses while pitching for the Mets, 14 as starter and 13 in relief. |
| 1998 | Cubs’ rookie Kerry Wood ties a major league record with 20 strikeouts in a nine-inning game as he one-hits the Astros, 2-0. In addition to matching Red Sox fireballer Roger Clemens’ feat (Mariners-1986 and Tigers-1996), the 20-year-old Texan breaks the National League record of 19 strikeouts in a nine-inning game shared by Steve Carlton, David Cone and Tom Seaver. |
| 2005 | In a 6-5 win over the Cardinals, Trevor Hoffman becomes the third closer in major league history to save 400 games The Padres reliever joins Lee Smith (478) and John Franco (424) as the other bullpen artists who have also reached this milestone. |
| 2007 | With a dramatic seventh-inning announcement from the owner’s box, the fans are informed Roger Clemens is once again a Yankee. The right-hander sure Hall of Famer agrees to a one-year, $28-million contract, the highest single-season salary ever paid to a major-league player, to come out of retirement again and pitch in pinstripes for the remainder of the season. |
| 2008 | Tim Wakefield, 42, throws eight scoreless innings and 41-year old Mike Timlin does not allow a run in the ninth in the Red Sox 5-0 victory over the Tigers at Comerica Park. It is the first time in the post-1900 era two teammates over 40 years of age have combined to toss a shutout. |
| 2008 | Joe Mauer’s double with one out in the ninth inning breaks up Gavin Floyd’s bid for a no-hitter. The White Sox right-hander leaves the contest to a standing ovation from the U.S. Cellular Field crowd with Bobby Jenks getting the last two outs in Chicago’s 7-1 victory over the Twins. |
| 2009 | With a 10-3 victory over Washington, the Dodgers break the major league mark for consecutive victories at home to open a season with their 13th straight win in L.A. The previous record of 12 was established in 1911 by the Tigers. |
Red Wings Drop Game One of Semifinal
Posted by: jack on Apr 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Red Wings
By AJ Petronzi
In Play on Facebook
The Detroit Red Wings gave up three quick goals before battling back to lose to the San Jose Sharks 4-3.
Joe Pavelski broke open the score sheet tonight for San Jose before Dany Heatley and Devin Setoguchi added to the lead within a minute and a half. Dan Cleary cut into that lead with Detroit’s first goal. In the second period, Johan Franzen cut the advantage to one before Pavelski scored his second of the night early in the third. Brian Rafalski scored right afterwards, but no one else netted a puck again.
The Red Wings got caught early in the first after giving up a powerplay goal and found themselves in a quick 3 goal disadvantage. Afterwards this game was mostly the Red Wings. Detroit dominated the face-off circle in the final two periods and Evgeni Nabokov didn’t look great after the first either. San Jose was without Patrick Marleau, one of their top three forwards, tonight. Marleau missed the game because of an illness.
In Play! Man of the Game: Joe Pavelski. Pavelski was the only Shark who seemed to never have a bad shift. He finished the night with three points but didn’t contribute to San Jose’s minus-5 team rating.
Highlight video from Michigan Spring Game of QB Robinsion
Posted by: Leelanau Sports Guy on Apr 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Michigan Wolverines
Saw this video on mgoblog of Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson highlights from the annual spring game. As an added bonus the highlights are sprinkled with Christopher Walken.
I think Robinson will ultimately win be the man at quarterback for Michigan. He’s quick and has a strong arm. He’ll give Michigan the best chance at getting back to a bowl this season!
Red Wings Destroy Phoenix, Move on to San Jose
Posted by: jack on Apr 28th, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Red Wings
By AJ Petronzi
In Play on Facebook
The Detroit Red Wings demolished the Phoenix Coyotes 6-1 to win their first game seven road game since 1964.
Pavel Datsyuk was the first on the score sheet tonight, but followed his rebound goal with a beautiful breakaway deke to score tonight’s second goal. Vernon Fiddler gave Phoenix some life, but Brad Stuart, Todd Bertuzzi and two goals from Nicklas Lidstrom put the Coyotes to bed in the desert.
Pavel Datsyuk has a history of embarrassing Ilya Bryzgalov on breakaways and shootouts, and tonight Bryzgalov just wasn’t the same after that goal. Adding to that was the pure domination that Detroit had over this game. Detroit now moves on to San Jose, the number one seed, and will likely play Thursday. Detroit is the only bottom four seed team in the Western Conference to continue to the next round.
In Play! Man of the Game: Pavel Datsyuk. Datsyuk had the first two goals tonight and several other chances. Had Datsyuk not scored on that breakaway goal, Detroit may have lost this game.
Red Wings Beat Phoenix, Can Eliminate Coyotes on Sunday
Posted by: jack on Apr 24th, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Red Wings
By AJ Petronzi
In Play Magazine
The Detroit Red Wings broke a 1-1 tie in the third period to go on to a 4-1 win and take a 3-2 lead in the series.
Phoenix faces elimination at the Joe this Sunday.
Photo Jack Rosenberg/In Play! Magazine
Drew Miller was first on the board tonight with a goal that was kicked in by Phoenix’s Vernon Fiddler. Ed Jovanovski tied the game during the second. In the third, Tomas Holmstrom and Pavel Datsyuk scored two quick goals before Henrik Zetterberg scored an empty netter to finish the night.
The Red Wings played 40 solid minutes of hockey tonight. They were outplayed during the second period but were bailed out by Jimmy Howard, who played a great game tonight. Detroit just dominated play in the first and third periods. Nicklas Lidstrom was on the ice for all four goals scored by Detroit. Today Lidstrom was not announced as a finalist for the Norris Trophy for just the second time since 1997.
In Play! Man of the Game: Pavel Datsyuk. Datsyuk won the face-off that lead to Holmstrom’s goal and netted his own shortly afterwards. He also recorded stats in every column on the sheet today except he failed to record a hit or giveaway.
JIMMY HOWARD NAMED CALDER TROPHY FINALIST
Posted by: jack on Apr 22nd, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Red Wings
DUCHENE, HOWARD AND MYERS NAMED CALDER TROPHY FINALISTS
NEW YORK (April 22, 2010) — Center Matt Duchene of the Colorado Avalanche, goaltender Jimmy Howard of the Detroit Red Wings and defenseman Tyler Myers of the Buffalo Sabres are the three finalists for the 2009-10 Calder Trophy, awarded “to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition,” the National Hockey League announced today.
RED WINGS TIE SERIES WITH 3-0 SHUTOUT
Posted by: jack on Apr 21st, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Red Wings
By AJ Petronzi
In Play Magazine
The Detroit Red Wings rallied back from an early no-goal call to tie the series with the Phoenix Coyotes 2-2 moving back to the desert on Friday.
Henrik Zetterberg opened the column tonight with a powerplay deflection. Pavel Datsyuk drove that lead further late in the third with the second goal of the night before Zetterberg buried the hatchet into Phoenix with his second of the night just 25 seconds later.
Detroit not just opened the door to the Coyotes net tonight, they kept their penalty box busy, giving the Coyotes five power plays and stopping them all. Jimmy Howard controlled his rebounds tonight but made a rallying save on a rare rebound despite losing his mask. The absence of Shane Doan, Phoenix’s captain, from this game played a huge part, allowing the Wings to take better control of the puck around the boards and allowed Detroit to dominate the physical play, out hitting the Coyotes 43-27.
In Play! Man of the Game: Jimmy Howard. Howard stopped all 29 of the Coyotes shots and recorded his first career playoff shutout.
Post game audio from both teams.
Red Wings Fall to Coyotes in Hockeytown, Down 2-1 in Series
Posted by: jack on Apr 19th, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Red Wings
By AJ Petronzi
In Play Magazine
In Play Magazine
The Detroit Red Wings gave up a goal 29 seconds into the game and never stood a chance, losing 4-2 to the Phoenix Coyotes in Detroit.
Jimmy Howard gave up the first goal to Sami Lepisto tonight just 29 seconds into the game. Valtteri Filppula tied the game before Wojtek Wolski and Petr Prucha put Phoenix back out to the lead. Johan Franzen cut that lead in half, but Radim Vrbata closed the book tonight.
The Red Wings just didn’t bring the same game they had on Friday and never stood a chance starting from the opening face-off. The Wings played a physical game, but that was all they did. Phoenix ended an outstanding plus 15 on the night – the Wings a minus 15. If Detroit continues to play this way then the series is going to be over on Friday when these teams meet for game 5 in Phoenix.
In Play! Man of the Game: Radim Vrbata. Vrbata stepped up when Shane Doan left the game, scoring a goal and getting an assist.
Check out the In Play! Red Wings Blog for post game audio from Red Wings and Coyotes Dressing room after last night’s game.
Red Wings Lose Game One
Posted by: jack on Apr 15th, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Red Wings
By AJ Petronzi
In Play Magazine
The Detroit Red Wings have lost the opening game of the playoffs, falling 3-2 to the Phoenix Coyotes.
Tomas Holmstrom scored first tonight, but quickly that lead was equalized by Keith Yandle. Late in the first period Nicklas Lidstrom scored to put Detroit to a lead again. In the second, Wojtek Wolski tied the game before Derek Morris game Phoenix the game winner in the third.
This game was down the wire through two, but was all Phoenix in the third. Phoenix just outworked Detroit in the final stanza and took over the game. Detroit was a train wreck today on the penalty kill, giving up goals on all of the first three times shorthanded. Tonight there were issues with consistency on penalty calling. While Phoenix accumulated more penalties than Detroit, the game winning goal was scored because of interference that was worse than the interference that had put Phoenix on the man advantage. Phoenix also wasn’t penalized when Lidstrom was high sticked while handling the puck midway through the third. That lack of a call cost Detroit a four minute powerplay as well as cost them the use of Lidstrom for roughly a quarter of the period.
In Play! Man of the Game: Derek Morris. Morris finished the game with three points (2 assists and the game winning goal) as well as a blocked shot and one of Phoenix’s 43 hits.
Phoenix Coyotes vs. Detroit Red Wings – Possible Jack Adams Show Down
Posted by: jack on Apr 12th, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Red Wings
By AJ Petronzi
In Play Magazine
Every year there is a debate about who should win the Jack Adams award – awarded to the best coach of the year in the NHL – and this year two likely candidates, Dave Tippett and Mike Babcock, will get to face off in the opening round of the playoffs.
Phoenix’s Dave Tippett isn’t just a front runner for the nomination – he’s been considered the likely winner of the award since the Olympic break. Tippett has taken a team that, in the beginning of the year, wasn’t even sure if they’d be in the desert or if they’d be in Ontario and coached them to the playoffs. Most professional teams that are adrift in the front office don’t stand a chance in the standings. Take for instance, the Coyotes. Phoenix had the same front office issues last season but under the coaching of Wayne Gretzky finished 25th in the NHL and missed the playoffs. Tippet took over the team and finished 4th in the league this season.
Mike Babcock isn’t a stranger to the playoffs. He took Anaheim there and has never missed the playoffs since taking the job in Detroit. This year he had something to deal with that he had never faced on such a large scale. Injuries. For most of December and all of January and February, Babcock was missing eight of his top players to injury. That’s one player short of half the roster if you don’t count the goalies. In fact, it wasn’t unusual to hear the chant, “Let’s go Griffins” in the Joe Louis Arena this year (the Griffins are Detroit’s minor league team). Detroit broke 300 Man Games Lost from injuries in early March. Only Philadelphia, Colorado, and Vancouver made the playoffs with more man games lost to injury. However, all of those teams suffered more regular intervals of injuries and never saw more than three or four major players injured at one time.
Whether both of these coaches end up in the running or not, this opening round series isn’t just about which team will move on to the conference semi-finals, it could be an important factor in the decision of who will have the bragging rights behind the bench next season.
Red Wings Pull Just Two Points Shy of 100
Posted by: jack on Apr 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Detroit Red Wings
By AJ Petronzi
In Play Magazine
The Detroit Red Wings overcame the Columbus Blue Jackets to win 4-3 with a goal filled two minute exchange to push their streak of consecutive 100 point seasons to 10 to a real possibility.
Niklas Kronwall scored first tonight but quickly that lead was snubbed out by a rare Nicklas Lidstrom turnover that RJ Umberger stuffed past Jimmy Howard. Just before the end of the first, Samuel Pahlsson put Columbus up to a one goal lead. The game stayed this way until a 76 second period in the third in which Tomas Holmstrom scored twice and Dan Cleary followed with one of his own. Columbus cut the lead to one with a goal by Mike Blunden but couldn’t tie the game.
Detroit came out to a rough game and set the stage for a train wreck early in the second before turning their game around in the third. Columbus took themselves out of this game late when they spent more time arguing about a penalty call than defending the powerplay. They then took a pair of misconduct penalties and set Detroit up for the three goals in just over a minute. Dan Cleary played possibly his best game of the season today.
In Play! Man of the Game: Tomas Holmstrom. Holmstrom deflected both late powerplay goals and played a great game in front of the net.
ADDED BONUS:
Post game interviews with Lidstrom, Holmstrom, Eaves, Howard and Babcock.
