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What went right and wrong for Detroit during a 162-game season that will stretch at least into Tuesday night's playoff game at Minnesota: Right: Justin Verlander, Edwin Jackson and Rick Porcello.

Flipped over to MLB Network just now. The Twins have won, and so the Tigers have to win to avoid dropping into a tie for first place with Minnesota.

Eddie Bonine couldn't have expected to make the pitching rotation when he was recalled this month as rosters expanded.

Over the course of the past two weeks, the Tigers played the Royals six times. They lost five of those games.

PREGAME: Look, Ia m as nervous as the next guy about this game. The Tigers are not playing good right now.

What a strange journey it has been for Nate Robertson to arrive at today, when he will pitch against the Twins in the first really pivotal game of the Tigers' September playoff race.

Detroit They insist they're not nervous, and they've got the toy trucks and cocktail dresses to prove it.

Only a few months ago, Nate Robertson was sitting in the bullpen at Comerica Park, receiving insults from leather-lunged fans who wished he would earn his $7 million salary.

Jim Leyland is out of answers. Not only did his division-leading Detroit Tigers drop a fifth straight game to the last-place Kansas City Royals , 11-1 on Tuesday night, he has to fill another spot in his patchwork rotation.

Detroit Tigers pitcher Fernando Rodney has been suspended for three games and fined for throwing a ball toward the stands following a game last week.

WHAT HAPPENED: The Tigers matched Toronto with three runs in the seventh, but it was too little, too late.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A few weeks ago, the thought would have been preposterous.

Published: Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 12:05 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 12:05 a.m. ST.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, For one night the Tigers hitters and pitchers played role reversal.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Nate Robertson has been producing, and Armando Galarraga has been laboring.

Armando Galarraga put the Tigers in a deep hole on Saturday night. But with the way Detroit has been playing lately, no hole seems deep enough.

St. Petersburg, FL -- - The Detroit Tigers recalled pitcher Armando Galarraga Saturday to start against Tampa Bay.

Detroit -- He's pitching well, nearly won the game, but his immediate future still is off limits.

Jarrod Washburn will miss his scheduled start Saturday to give his injured left knee a break.

The Detroit Tigers recalled right-hander Jeremy Bonderman from his injury rehabilitation assignment at Triple-A Toledo and reinstated him from the disabled list on Tuesday.