2013 MLB Playoff Tournament

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Friday, October 4
O-op Coliseum
Max Scherzer -v- Bartolo Colon.

Alex Avila got the scoring going in the second, leading off with a homer.  The Tigers scored twice more in the inning but that homer would be the only run the Bengals would need.  Max Scherzer went 7 and Joaquin Benoit closed out the last two.
Tigers 3 Athletics 0

Saturday, October 5
O-op Coliseum
Jason Verlander -v- Sonny Gray

Game 2 was a virtual mirror image of Game 1.  Stephen Vogt homered to lead off the bottom of the third and the A's pitchers made it stand up  Sonny Gray pitched into the sixth and Ryan Cook and Jesse Chavez divided the rest of the game to shut out the Tigers.  Brandon Moss homered as the Series became even.
Athletics 4  Tigers 0

Monday, October 7
Comerica Park
Jarrod Parker -v- Anibal Sanchez

Coco Crisp and Yoenis Cespedes each had solo homers for the A's  Miguel Cabrera and Avila each homered with men on base.  In an offensive game, the A's came up  short. Jose Iglesias and Cabrera each had 4 rbis. 
Tigers 11  Athletics 3

Tuesday October 8
Comerica Park
Dan Straily -v- Doug Fister

When Miguel Cabrera homered with a man on in the second to give the Tigers a 5-0 lead, it began to look like the bubbly would be sprayed in Motown. The A's scratched out a run in the third and added to more small ball runs in the 4th.  In the the 7th, rbi doubles by Crisp and Jed Lowrie tied the game.  Neither team posed a serious threat for a run through the remainder of the game,   Brandon Moss homered in the 19th and the series would return (as in real life) to Oakland for a Game 5 
Athletics 6  Tigers 5

Thursday October 10
O-op Coliseum
Justin Verlander -v- Sonny Gray

The edge seemed to be with the A's with Sonny Gray who had not been scored up in Game 2 by the Tigers here, on Oakland's home field.  But when Brandon Moss hit his third homer of the Series in the 4th, he was already behind.  The Tigers played station to station baseball, knocking 14 hits, only three of which were extra base hits (all doubles).  Justin Verlander walked 5 in six innings but struck out 8 and only allowed 2 hits.  The Tigers advance.
Tigers 9  Athletics 2

Tigers win series 3-2
--submitted by Tom "Crash" Davis"--