Magglio Ordonez won his first AL batting title, getting three more hits Sunday and leading the Detroit Tigers over the Chicago White Sox 13-3 in a season finale between two disappointing teams.
Ordonez raised his average three points to .363 and easily beat out Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki.
Ordonez became the first Tigers player to win the batting crown since Norm Cash batted .361 in 1961. Ordonez also finished with 139 RBIs.
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Detroit's Carlos Guillen will shift from shortstop to first base next season.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland spoke with Guillen about the change on Wednesday.
"It's OK," Guillen said before Friday night's game against the White Sox. "I don't have any problems. I want to help this team get better. We were in the World Series last year, and I want to bring us back."
Leyland said the team was making the move with Guillen's health in mind.
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Tigers outfielder Magglio Ordonez said Monday night he will have an MRI exam today on his left heel, which has caused him pain much of the season.
Ordonez said he and the club want to make sure there is nothing seriously wrong with the heel that requires something be done to it in the off-season. For now, Ordonez plans to give it plenty of off-season rest.
The pain caused Ordonez to sit out Sunday, but he showed no effects of the problem in Monday night's game, going 1-for-3 with a walk.
Even if the heel causes Ordonez to miss more games, he has enough at-bats to qualify for the American League batting title, which appears to be his to lose.
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Tigers Sep 2007 Archive
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The Detroit News | Sep 24, 2007
Right-hander Jeremy Bonderman was set to go.
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Booth Newspapers | Sep 22, 2007
Pudge Rodriguez will never forget the day he became a full-time catcher.
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Detroit News | Sep 18, 2007
Detroit's Jeremy Bonderman may still be available to pitch again this season.
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Detroit News | Sep 17, 2007
As nice it would be to focus on Todd Jones getting the 300th save of his career in Sunday's 6-4 victory over the Twins, the next series facing the Tigers nudges it prematurely out of the spotlight.
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Detroit Free Press | Sep 15, 2007
The Tigers' Gary Sheffield expects this to be his final contract.
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Detroit News | Sep 11, 2007
The news Monday about Jeremy Bonderman, as manager Jim Leyland put it, "wasn't good, but it was great.
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Detroit Free Press | Sep 10, 2007
The Tigers woke up on Sunday with a chance to seize their longest winning streak in almost two months.
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AP | Sep 9, 2007
The Tigers' Curtis Granderson joined Willie Mays and Frank "Wildfire" Schulte as the only players in MLB history with 20 stolen bases, homers, triples, and doubles.
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Yahoo.com | Sep 9, 2007
Jeremy Bonderman lasted just 1 1/3 innings on Sunday, allowing six runs on seven hits in a 14-7 loss to the Mariners.
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AP | Sep 8, 2007
Curtis Granderson's homer put him in elite company and Justin Verlander gave up one run over eight innings as Detroit beat the Seattle Mariners 6-1 Friday night for its first three-game winning streak in nearly two months.
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Yahoo.com | Sep 2, 2007
Oakland's Jack Hannahan blooped a game-winning single to shallow left in the 10th inning to score Mark Ellis from first, and the Tigers blew a chance to gain ground in the AL Central race Sunday with an 8-7 loss to the A's.
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AP | Sep 2, 2007
Kenny Rogers is returning to the Tigers' rotation for the September stretch run.
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Detroit News | Sep 1, 2007
Kenny Rogers threw 52 pitches and the three hitters who faced him on Friday in a simulated game at McAfee Coliseum raved about him.
