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Tonight, the Detroit Tigers (61-64) will take on the Texas Rangers (62-64). Detroit is 10.5 games behind the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central, and Texas is 15.5 games behind the Angels in the AL West. The reason to watch this game is for the pitching, as both starters are among the top of the league in terms of wins. Game time is scheduled for 8:05 PM in Texas.

Consider these criteria when determining a pick between the Tigers and the Rangers:

- Armando Galarraga (11-4, 3.11) will start for Detroit

- Vicente Padilla (12-6, 4.85) will start for Texas

- The Rangers have lost 10 out of their last 12 games

- The Rangers top ranked offense has only scored 11 times in the last 5 games, and have been shut out 4 of their last 10 games

-  The Rangers have the worst pitching staff in the league

- Detroit’s SP Galarraga has opponents hitting .217 against him, the third lowest in MLB

- Texas is without their leading hitter, Ian Kinsler

- Detroit is 28-36 on the road

- Texas is 32-29 on the road

- Detroit is 5-5 in its last ten games

- Texas is 2-8 in its last ten games

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The New York Yankees (63-55) take on the Minnesota Twins (65-52) tonight in a showdown of two teams who are hoping to be playing this October. The Twins are currently half a game back of the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central, and are 1.5 games behind the Boston Red Sox for the AL Wild Card. The Yankees are 8.5 games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL East race and are 4 games behind the Red Sox in the AL Wild Card race. Game time is scheduled for 8:05 PM Eastern at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Consider these criteria when determining a pick between the Yankees and the Twins:

- Sidney Ponson (7-2, 4.23) will start for the Yankees

- Glen Perkins (8-3, 4.38) will start for Minnesota

- The Yankees swept the Twins in their last matchup, July 21-23rd, and outscored them 25-7

- The Yankees are 5-2 vs. the Twins this year

- The Yankees have just been swept by the Los Angeles Angels

- Minnesota is 39-21 at home

- New York is 27-29 on the road

- Minnesota is 6-4 in its last 10 games

- New York is 4-6 in its last 10 games

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The Boston Red Sox (66-49) face the Chicago White Sox (63-50) in what will be an important opening game of the series for both teams. The Red Sox are current AL Wild Card holders, and the White Sox are a half game up on the Minnesota Twins in the AL Central.

Consider these criteria when determining a pick between the Red Sox and the White Sox:

- Jon Lester (10-3, 3.14) will start for Boston

- Mark Buehrle (8-10, 4.07) will start for Chicago

- Boston has won seven straight games against Chicago, most recently a 4 game sweep last August

- Chicago has won 25 of its last 32 home games

- Buehrle struggles against the Red Sox, going 0-4 with a 7.18 ERA in his last five starts

- Boston has won 5 of its last 6 games

- Boston is 26-33 on the road

- Chicago is 37-17 at home, 4th best in the league

- Boston is 6-4 in its last 10

- Chicago is 4-6 in its last 10

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If you were not taking Tampa Bay seriously this season, you may want to reconsider.  They are certainly a well built team that’s been years in the makings. The Tampa Bay Rays (68-45) beat the Cleveland Indians (49-64) 10-7 Wednesday night to remain 3 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox in the AL East race. The Rays were down 7-4 entering the bottom half of the ninth inning when there massive rally began. Carlos Pena topped off the 6 run inning with his own 3 run walk off homerun off of Cleveland reliever Masa Kobayashi. Another homerun by Gabe Gross was hit in the inning, which tied the game at 7. The win pulls the Rays closer to the 70 win mark, something that they remarkably haven’t done in any of the last 10 seasons. Rays manager Joe Madden had this to say about the game: “Probably the most exciting win I’ve been involved with here.”  Masa Kobayashi (4-5) was charged with the loss, and Troy Percival (2-0) was given the win.

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It took someone who wasn’t even expecting to play to finally end the extra innings game between the Chicago White Sox (62-49) and the Detroit Tigers (55-57). The game lasted 4 hours and 58 minutes, but Chicago’s Nick Swisher hit a three run homer in the bottom of the 14th to give the White Sox the 10-8 win. The game went into extra innings at 6-6, and neither team scored until the 14th inning. In the top of the inning, Detroit’s Placido Polanco hit his second homer of the game, which brought in 2 runs to make it 8-6 in the Tigers favor heading into the bottom of the inning. Chicago’s Orlando Cabrera scored after an error, to make the score 8-7. With two outs and a 2-1 count, Swisher stepped to the plate and hit his three run bomb to right-center field. The win gave Chicago a one game lead on Minnesota, who lost to Seattle, in the AL Central. Adam Russell was given the win, his fourth of the season. Joel Zumaya was given the loss.

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The Tampa Bay Rays (66-44) beat the Detroit Tigers (55-56) Sunday in the 10th inning by a score of 6-5. The way they won was anything but ordinary, and ranks up there with the worst ways to lose a game (if you’re a Tigers fan). After Detroit got a run in the top of the tenth to go up 5-4, Tampa Bay’s outfielder Carl Crawford hit an RBI single in the bottom half of the 10th inning. Carlos Pena then drew a game-ending, bases-loaded walk. To make matters even worse for Detroit, the reason the bases became loaded was when Detroit pitcher Fernando Rodney issued a walk, than hit a batter to get two guys on. A sacrifice hit moved the runners to second and third, and Rodney again issued a walk to the next batter, before Pena drew his walk.  Speaking after the game, Detroit manager Jim Leyland had this quote: “You’ve got to step it up if you want to be in the hunt. You don’t want to be in the hunt, go home. Take an early vacation. Come back for spring training. We’ll bring some kids up to play. We should be embarrassed. I’m not sure enough people are.” Trever Miller was given the win, with Fernando Rodney taking the loss.

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The Cleveland Indians (47-61) will take on the Minnesota Twins (61-48) in an AL Central showdown. These are important games for the Twins, as they can try to gain wins to keep up with the AL Central leading Chicago White Sox. The Twins need to continue their winning ways as of late to stay in contention.

Consider these criteria when determining a pick between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox:

- Paul Byrd (5-10, 4.93) will take the mound for Cleveland

- Kevin Slowey (7-7, 4.00) will start for Minnesota

- Byrd is 0-2 with a 7.04 ERA in three starts versus Minnesota in 2008

- Minnesota has won six out of its last seven games

- Minnesota is 38-20 at home

- Cleveland is 18-35 on the road

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On a night that lasted 5 hours and 33 minutes, we saw a game that had 526 total pitches, 42 base hits, 7 homeruns, and a combined total score of 26. The Detroit Tigers (54-52) eventually outscored the Cleveland Indians (46-59) in 13 to win the game, 14-12. Here is how the 13th inning went down: Carlos Guillen singled with one out in the 13th, and went to third on a Curtis Granderson single, his fifth hit. Guillen scored on Placido Polanco’s groundout. Granderson then scored the second run of the inning on a throwing error on a Matt Joyce infield single. There was also some history made in this game, albeit for the losing team. Cleveland’s catcher Kelly Shoppach tied a major league mark with five extra-base hits, including a game-tying homer in the ninth to send it into extra innings. Casey Fossum was given the win, with Juan Rincon taking the loss.

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Justin Morneau helped the Twins by hitting the go ahead run in as the Minnesota Twins (57-47) beat the Cleveland Indians (45-58) 4-2 on Sunday. Morneau stepped up to the plate with the game tied 2-2 in the top of the ninth. Rafael Perez threw a slider that Morneau got around on, and he hit a double that scored Alexi Castilla Morneau had this to say on the subject: He threw me the pitch I was looking for on 2-0, but I didn’t swing at it. He threw me the same pitch on 3-1. I pulled the trigger and took it the other way.” The win helped pull Minnesota within 2 and a half games of the first place Chicago White Sox in the AL Central. Joe Nathan was given the save, his 28th of the season.

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The Detroit Tigers (52-50) are currently 6.5 games back of the Chicago White Sox (58-43) in the AL Central standings. It very easily could have been 5.5 games back as they blew their lead going into the top of the ninth to lose 6-5 Friday. It was the second straight comeback win for Chicago, and their 16th in their last 24 games. The go ahead HR was hit by All-star roster snubbed Jermaine Dye who had this to say about the game, “A big game for them getting back into the race and we stole one.” With two outs in the top of the ninth and one man on base, Dye stepped to the plate against Tigers closer Todd Jones. After a quick 2-0 count, Dye hit the next pitch over the fence to give Chicago the lead, and they never looked back. D.J. Carrasco was given the win for pitching the eight, and Bobby Jenks was given the save. Todd Jones was tacked with the loss.

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