Andy Dirks

ATLANTA (AP) — Freddie Freeman homered in the 10th inning to give the Atlanta Braves a 5-4 win over the Minnesota Twins last night. Atlanta's Evan Gattis tied the game in the ninth with a two-out, pinch-hit homer. Trevor Plouffe and Ryan Doumit...

WHITE SOX-TWINS Peavy, power lift White Sox over Twins 4-2 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adam Dunn and Dayan Viciedo homered to back another strong start from Jake Peavy and lead the Chicago White Sox to a 4-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday...

Here’s the message from the best sign I’ve seen in a while today: “There’s no stop, drop and roll in hell”. Origins--- They may be in Oklahoma City and Memphis now, but time was that the Thunder was in Seattle and the...

Really? With some of the greatest marketing minds at their beacon call—the best that the BCS Commissioners could come up with for the new college football playoff—was the ‘College Football Playoff’? Are these the same guys who came...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers are restocked for a run at another World Series. Some cold air at the start of the season wasn't about to deter them. Verlander won on opening day for the first time in six tries,...

Justin Verlander won on opening day for the first time in six tries, pitching five shutout innings at frosty Target Field and sending the defending American League champion Detroit Tigers past the Minnesota Twins 4-2 on Monday.  With the gametime...

DETROIT (AP) — Frost coming off their breath, Pablo Sandoval and the San Francisco Giants finished their workout at Comerica Park, headed back to the clubhouse and pulled off their hooded sweatshirts and parkas. Halfway to a championship, they...

NEW YORK -- In this postseason of dramatic comebacks and epic bullpen collapses, the New York Yankees and Detroit opened up the American League Championship Series with another October classic. After scoring four ninth-inning runs off Jose Valverde,...

Jose Valverde could've been the goat. But thankfully for him and the Detroit Tigers, Delmon Young was the hero. Young hit an RBI double to rightfield that got just got by Nick Swisher to score Miguel Cabrera for the go-ahead run in the top of the 12th...

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DETROIT -- Pinch-runner Don Kelly scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, helping the Detroit Tigers sneak past the Kansas City Royals, 5-4, in the third test of a four-game series. With runners on the corners and one out, Detroit's Jhonny...

Jhonny Peralta brought home the go-ahead run when Andy Dirks' hard slide broke up a potential inning-ending double play in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 Wednesday night.     Triple Crown candidate Miguel Cabrera...