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There are home runs, and then there are big home runs. The biggest homers tie the score or put a team ahead.

Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer tags out Detroit Tigers' Clete Thomas sliding into home-plate during the third inning of their MLB American League baseball game in Detroit, Michigan, September 29, 2009.

Tom Brookens is headed back to the major leagues. Former Oneonta Tigers manager Brookens, who spent the past two seasons managing Double-A Erie, was named Detroit's first base, outfield and baserunning coach Monday.

Former Dolphin standout and now Detroit Tiger right fielder Clete Thomas was honored today with a plaque and the retiring of his old jersey #3. Clete played four years at Mosley before going to Auburn to play college ball and then was drafted by the Minnesota Twins before getting traded to Detroit.

The 2005 draft is another that may turn out to be more famous for who it allowed the Tigers to get rather than who it eventually netted the Detroiters.

It's possible that someone at Mosley one day will match what Clete Thomas accomplished.

Tigers outfield prospect Casper Wells is picking up where he left off in the Arizona Fall League last year.

If Miguel Cabrera hadn't been partying on Saturday morning, maybe the Tigers would have celebrated with champagne one day later.

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Free Press sports writer Shawn Windsor live-blogged today's Tigers-Twins one-game playoff.

The two-out, three-run double by Magglio Ordonez, left, in the fifth inning padded a tenuous 4-2 lead for the Detroit Tigers against the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night and proved that manager Jim Leyland's decision to make Ordonez the designated hitter was the right call.

Posted on September 29th, 2009 3:03 PM By La Velle Based on how the pitch counts soared in the early innings, I expected to see a reliever enter the game by the sixth.

As expected, the Twins are going with the same posted lineup for Game 1. The sun has been peeking through the clouds and then disappearing again.

Now the postseason doesn't hinge on games. It doesn't even rest on innings. Now every pitch swings the balance, and when Nick Blackburn plunked in the shoulder in the second inning of Today's first game and went on to score, the momentum swing toward the home team seemed complete.

Detroit --Aubrey Huff came to bat in the first inning of Tuesday's first game of a big doubleheader against the Twins, runners at second and first, two out, and the Tigers hoping for a quick knock that would give them a boost in an enormously important game.

Tigers top Tribe Clete Thomas talks about the Tigers' win in Cleveland. Detroit racked up 15 hits in the 11-3 victory.

It was Detroit's third win in a row, and cut its magic number to nine with 11 games remaining.

Justin Masterson had his second consecutive bad start and the Indians' offense continued to struggle as they lost, 11-3, on Wednesday at Progressive Field.

The "Dear Jim Leyland" Chronicles will be a recurring segment in which I question some of the decisions made by the skipper of the Detroit Tigers, Jim Leyland.

Justin Verlander bounded down the clubhouse steps toward the Tigers ' dugout late Tuesday afternoon, clutching a toy befitting a Motor City icon: a deluxe remote-controlled monster truck, purchased just that morning.