Topic: Jim Leyland
The Texas Rangers routed the Detroit Tigers 15-5 to win the American League championship series and reach the World Series for the second straight year.Texas scored nine runs in the third inning and slugger Nelson Cruz set a post-season record with his ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Justin Verlander is not only the ace of the Detroit Tigers pitching staff, he is the workhorse ready to be sent out again minutes after beating the Texas Rangers on Thursday and extending the American League Championship Series.At a ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander made his best pitch but could not convince manager Jim Leyland to send him out for Game Four of American League Championship Series against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday.After Detroit lost the first two ...
Nelson Cruz broke out of a playoff slump with a home run to help Texas shrug off two rain delays to defeat Detroit 3-2 in their Major League Baseball second-round playoff series opener.The Rangers, trying to book a return trip to the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Given the delicate subject matter, Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland was always going to give a brief response to the media inquisition he faced before Friday's Major League Baseball (MLB) playoff against the New York Yankees.The 66-year-old has ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Justin Verlander has always had an electrifying arm but it took time for the 28-year-old right-hander to graduate to the ranks of mature mound ace, Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland said on Thursday.Leyland will send Verlander to the ...
Jim Leyland, this season's AL All-Star skipper, faces a tough decision this upcoming weekend: While the NL has sent just four starting pitchers to San Francisco (now five with Michael Young getting in on the final fan vote), Leyland will have seven ...
Jim Leyland is a Major League manager who has led four teams—the Pittsburgh Pirates , Florida Marlins , Colorado Rockies , and Detroit Tigers —during his 17-season managerial career. In 1997 , he led the Marlins to a World Series Championship, and ...
The main factor that has landed Cooper on this list is the Astros impatient owner, Drayton McLane. If Cooper is going to save his job, he will need to find quality starting pitching for the Astros. The mere fact that Joe Girardi ...
It is rather easy and perhaps, obvious, to list Casey Stengel and Joe Torre of the Yankees as great baseball managers. But I'm going to give kudos to two other skippers for their managerial skills - Jim Leyland and Sparky Anderson. Mr. ...
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Jim Leyland cusses out Barry Bonds
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An Emotional Jim Leyland after the ...
The skip shows what it means to persevere through the ...2011-09-17
