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DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers longest winning streak of the season ended Thursday. Theyll try to get another one going this weekend when they face another team fighting for a playoff spot.The New York Mets, coming off a four-game split with the crosstown rival Yankees, will make their first journey to Detroits Comerica Park since June 2011. The three-game showdown begins on Friday night.Detroit dropped three games behind American League Central Division leader Cleveland with a 6-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Thursday afternoon.You try to win every series, Tigers catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia said. Its been a great eight-win run, so now were going to start a new one.Following a down year in which they finished last in the division, the Tigers have re-established themselves as a contender. Despite losing the series finale to the White Sox, theyre still 10 games over .500.Its awesome. Thats what helps teams get through August and September, right fielder J.D. Martinez said. Its a long last couple of months if youre out of it. Youre kind of just grinding through and the clubhouse is just miserable. Last year, thats kind of how it felt. Its just tough to go out there and play. But when you know youre in it and youve got a shot to make it to the playoffs, theres nothing like it.The Tigers will send out the American League Pitcher of the Month for July in the series opener. Justin Verlander compiled a 4-0 record in six starts last month, including a complete-game victory over Houston on Saturday when he recorded a season-high 11 strikeouts.Cameron Maybins status for the weekend series is uncertain. The Tigers center fielder suffered a mildly sprained thumb on his glove hand while diving for a ball on Wednesday and did not play on Thursday.The Tigers wont see the slugging outfielder they traded last season. Mets left fielder Yoenis Cespedes was placed on the 15-day disabled list after he aggravated a right quad strain during a 9-5 loss to the Yankees on Wednesday.The Mets were planning to use him as a designated hitter during the weekend series before the pain persisted. He appeared in 14 of 21 games after initially suffering the injury on July 8 and hit just .227 with one homer in that span.Its a little frustrating, Cespedes told the New York Times and other media members through an interpreter. Ive missed games and lost my timing trying to get back on the field to help the team, and I cant.The addition of slugger Jay Bruce at the trade deadline softens the blow. Bruce hit his first homer with the Mets, a three-run shot, in a 4-1 win over the Yankees on Thursday. The Mets will still miss Cespedes presence in the middle of the order.He was a huge factor. Were not going to mistake that, Mets manager Terry Collins said. He was a huge factor. 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This was no night to go to sleep.Jobe Watson is expected to make unwanted AFL history next month when he becomes the first Brownlow Medallist to be stripped of the honour.The AFL Commission will meet on November 15 to consider the thorny question of what to do about Watsons 2012 Brownlow.The issue was put on hold while Watson and 33 other Essendon players made a last-ditch appeal in Switzerland against their doping convictions.The Swiss Federal Tribunal announced on Tuesday night (AEDT) that it had ruled against the appeal, clearing the way for the Commission hearing.Watsons Brownlow is at stake because his doping offence occurred during the 2012 season.There is widespread speculation Watson will lose his Brownlow, in the same way that athletes convicted of doping offences have lost Olympic medals.It also emerged on Wednesday that the AFL had invited Hawthorn star Sam Mitchell and Richmond captain Trent Cotchin - the joint runners-up in the 2012 Brownlow - to make submissions about the issue.But the two players declined the offer.He was given the opportunity, if he wanted to, but no, he has no interest in presenting, Mitchells manager Peter Lenton told AFL Trade Radio.Lenton admitted to unease about Mitchell potentially being awarded his first Brownlow, given the circumstances.It would be a really strange way to get it and an uncomfortable way to receive it, Lenton said.But if thats the way its determined, I suppose you have to go by the umpires decision.Another potential solution for the Commission is to strip Watson of the medaal, but not declare a 2012 winner.ddddddddddddThe Tour de France took that approach when stripping drug cheat Lance Armstrong of his record seven titles, although a key reason was that so many of his rivals in that era were also known to have doped.Meanwhile, ASADA chief executive Ben McDevitt fired a shot at the Essendon players after their failed Swiss appeal.ASADA noted that the players had agreed to the terms of the CAS arbitration hearing.In January, CAS ruled in favour of a WADA appeal and that meant the players were found guilty of doping.You cannot agree to the rules and then expect them to change if you dont like the outcome, McDevitt said on Wednesday in a statement.McDevitt added he was pleased the anti-doping process related to the long-running Essendon supplements debacle was over.I am proud of ASADAs persistence in pursuing this case until the truth was revealed, he said.Dyson Heppell, who could be Essendons captain, said the Swiss verdict came as no surprise.Like Watson and 15 other players still on AFL lists, Heppell had to sit out this season because of the doping ban.I prepared myself mentally, probably 12 months ago, so for me it doesnt really change too much, Heppell said.We were never getting our 2016 back anyway.Its a real bit of closure, I think.In May, AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan said the league was dreading the Watson Brownlow decision.Cheap Jerseys China NFL Jerseys Wholesale Baseball Jerseys ' ' '