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It took better than one-third of the season and two stints on the disabled list, but the Tigers' Doug Fister finally broke into the win column with an outstanding performance after his first game back in 19 days.Fister has battled through a pulled stomach muscle which occurred in his first start of the season and has hampered his efforts to continue the hot stretch he finished with in 2011.Fister (3-1) was razor-sharp, giving the Rockies all they could handle through six-innings, allowing just three hits while striking out six and walking one. His swing-back fastball and two-seamer were money and allowed Fister to take early control of the game, sitting down the first 11 Colorado hitters he faced. Phil Coke provided strong relief in the seventh and eighth while earning his 11th hold of the season for the Tigers. Joaquin Benoit allowed the only Colorado run via a Michael Cuddyer ground-out ...

April behind them, the Detroit Tigers kicked off the month of May with a much-needed homestand victory. Jim Leyland and crew defeated the Kansas City Royals 9-3 at Comerica Park following Monday's rain out, which shortened the series to two games. The game will be made up September 24.The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Tigers at home behind an outstanding effort by Rick Porcello. The Tigers' 23-year-old starter won his second game of the season and evened his overall record at 2-2. He is now 5-2 lifetime against the Royals and 11-4 in the month of April.Porcello's sinker led to eight effective innings on the mound, striking out three and inducing 14 ground-ball outs. Porcello didn't allow a walk and was in command of the strike zone throughout the night, never needing more than 16 pitches in any one inning to finish off the opposition.The maturing Porcello's only real nemesis on the night was ...

This afternoon Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Josh Beckett got to pay witness to what is likely to become the best show in baseball—Miguel Cabrera followed by Prince Fielder. It wasn't his finest hour, Beckett's that is. For Cabrera and Fielder it was the beginning of what is sure to be a fantastic array of towering home runs and line-drive rockets taking exit from the playing fields coming to an American League ball park near you. Beckett seemed to battle Tigers hitters that fell after Fielder's place in the lineup, having stretches of eight and five hitters in a row retired, but nearly each time Cabrera or Fielder's number came due at the plate, Beckett's ERA paid a price. Cabrera and Fielder along with fellow teammate Alex Avila took Beckett deep five times and knocked him out of the game after just a 4 2/3 innings effort. Becket gave up seven runs before ...

Alas, Carlos Guillen's 36-year-old body could take no more. After three disappointing seasons riddled with injury along the stretch of a 14-year MLB career, the former Tiger has announced his retirement.Fox News and USA Today confirmed Guillen's retirement.Guillen signed a minor league contract with the Seattle Mariners organization during the offseason after the Tigers declined to make an offer for his services. Guillen played in only 177 games for the Tigers over the past three seasons, and only 28 last season after undergoing microfracture knee surgery as well as sustaining a wrist injury.Guillen spent the longest stretch of his career in Detroit, arriving in 2004 after spending his first six major league seasons with Seattle. His career in the Tigers organization was prosperous during his first five seasons with the club. Over that stretch he was a three-time All-Star (2004, 2007, 2008) and twice hit .320 for the season (2005, 2006). ...