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The Sports Xchange By Dana Gauruder, The Sports Xchange Tigers 8, Braves 3 DETROIT -- Austin Jackson and Miguel Cabrera hit three-run homers while Doug Fister collected his fourth victory as the Detroit Tigers completed a three-game sweep of the...

The Sports Xchange By Dana Gauruder, The Sports Xchange Hot-hitting Tigers sweep Braves DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers came into their much-anticipated interleague series with the Atlanta Braves as a .500 team. They came out of it looking like the World...

The Sports Xchange By Dana Gauruder, The Sports Xchange Porcello bounces back from bad outing, beats Braves DETROIT -- Rick Porcello didn't have any lingering effects from the worst performance of his career. Porcello recorded his first victory of the...

The Sports Xchange By Dana Gauruder, The Sports Xchange Sanchez sets Tigers record with 17 strikeouts DETROIT -- It wasn't surprising that a Detroit Tigers right-hander set a franchise record for strikeouts. But no one expected it to be Anibal Sanchez....

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Colorado Rockies - INSIDE PITCH Rockies' righty Juan Nicasio is going to have to become more efficient if he is going to stay in the rotation. He held the Arizona Diamondbacks hitless Sunday until Didi Gregorius...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Atlanta Braves - INSIDE PITCH The Braves had made just one previous trip to Detroit for an interleague series and none of the present players were with the team way back in 2004. Gerald Laird, though, is very...

The Sports Xchange By Dana Gauruder, The Sports Xchange Tigers 10, Braves 0 DETROIT -- Anibal Sanchez set a Detroit franchise record for strikeouts with 17 and Matt Tuiasosopo had a career-high five RBI as the Tigers overpowered the Atlanta Braves 10-0...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Atlanta Braves - INSIDE PITCH The Braves top the majors in home runs, but they are also among the leaders in strikeouts. That is part of the reason for one of the most glaring statistics of the early season. When...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Atlanta Braves - INSIDE PITCH The Braves' Evan Gattis homered in his first major league game and did it while his father was being interviewed on the telecast, so there is no question about the 26-year-old rookie's...

The Washington Nationals aren’t conceding anything to the Atlanta Braves, except perhaps for this: At this point in the season, it’s pretty obvious which team is better than the other. Justin Upton and Andrelton Simmons homered to back a...

Down 2-0 to the Rays in the eighth inning Wednesday, the Rangers got runners to second and third with one out. Right-hander Joel Peralta was on the mound, and the Rangers had switch-hitter Lance Berkman and the left-handed-hitting A.J. Pierzynski on the...

The Sports Xchange By Jack Etkin, The Sports Xchange Braves top Rockies in record cold DENVER -- Record-setting cold didn't stop the Atlanta Braves from hitting home runs or hinder their bullpen. The Braves scored all their runs on three homers,...