By Justin Cousineau
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The Tigers opened up their series against the Minnesota Twins swinging. They scored four runs in the 1st inning and Jeremy Bonderman fought hard on the mound. They came up with the win took a .5 game lead over the division rival.
The rest of the series did not play out the same as they dropped the following two games and losing the lead falling 1.5 games behind. The month of June played out better than May for the Tigers but in order to contend this season they need more than 2 starters to pitch above .500.
Verlander and Galarraga were most dominate for their team, as well as Phil Coke and Brad Thomas picking up five wins for the Tigers.
Rick Porcello went 0-2 and posted a 9.36 ERA, Bonderman went 2-3 with a 5.08 ERA and his second win coming late in the month on Monday.
With Verlander pitching good baseball the rest of the rotation needs to pitch better in the month of July if they hope to stay close to the Twins. Unless Verlnder is pitching great, and one or two other are pitching good baseball the Tigers could find themselves in a hole this month.
