The Sheff Show Goes to Lakeland
blessyouboys.com 6/17/2008 — According to the Detroit News ' Dana Wakiji , the Tigers announced before this afternoon's game that Gary Sheffield will begin a rehabilitation assignment with Single-A Lakeland tomorrow night.  To me, this was the amusing sentence in ...

Marcus Thames Doesn't Have Time For Singles, Doubles, and Triples
sports.aol.com 6/17/2008 — The Detroit Tigers six-game win streak came to an end last night in San Francisco when John Bowker welcomed Fernando Rodney back to the bigs with a three-run homer to give the Giants the win, but that doesn't mean every streak in Detroit died on ...

Baseball Transactions - Monday
blog.baseballdigestdaily.com 6/17/2008 — Atlanta Jair Jurrjens - Missed 5 games (right ankle injury). Boston Manny Ramirez - Missed 1 game (hamstring). Kevin Youkilis - Back injury, day-to-day. Detroit Fernando Rodney - Missed 69 games (right shoulder tendinitis). Minnesota Nick Blackburn - ...

Giants earn first interleague win of '08 (AP)
sports.yahoo.com 6/17/2008 — John Bowker hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the eighth inning to spoil Fernando Rodney's season debut, and the San Francisco Giants won their first interleague game in seven tries this year with an 8-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers on ...

Pudge catches again
beck.mlblogs.com 6/18/2008 — That's the second straight game for Ivan Rodriguez, of course, breaking the alternating string that Leyland had going with Pudge and Brandon Inge. Don't throw out that plan just yet, though. Leyland said he's worried that Inge is still bothered by ...

Rodney rejoins Tigers bullpen — Major League Baseball News 6/17/2008
Tigers reliever Fernando Rodney was back with the team on Monday, activated off the disabled list after avoiding surgery with shoulder-strengthening exercises. He has battled injuries for the better part of 18 months.

Bowker's 3-run homer rallies Giants past Tigers — Boston.com -- Baseball News 6/17/2008
John Bowker hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the eighth inning to spoil Fernando Rodney's season debut, and the San Francisco Giants won their first interleague game in seven tries this year with an 8-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Monday night.

Dodgers put RHP Penny on 15-day DL (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 6/17/2008
The Los Angeles Dodgers put right-hander Brad Penny on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a sore shoulder that has bothered him for much of the season. He went back to Los Angeles for a medical test Monday that detected tendinitis. He is 0-7 in his ...

Penny goes on DL with sore shoulder — FOXSports.com News for MLB 6/17/2008
The Los Angeles Dodgers put right-hander Brad Penny on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a sore shoulder that has bothered him for much of the season. He went back to Los Angeles for a medical test Monday that detected tendinitis. He is 0-7 in ...

Thames playing, hitting, homering — Major League Baseball News 6/18/2008
"One thing about Marcus Thames: He hits big ones," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said after Marcus Thames tied a franchise record Tuesday by homering in his fifth straight game.