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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. But weve gone through this (all) year, with not just Ces but a lot of guys. ... Theres going to be a lot of guys in that clubhouse right now who have to do a little bit more.Right-hander Noah Syndergaard will be seeking his first win in five starts when he opposes Verlander. Syndergaard has two losses and two no-decisions in that span, though he has only given up seven earned runs. He took a no-decision in his last start on Sunday against Colorado, allowing three runs -- two earned -- with six strikeouts in six innings.The Tigers will be facing Syndergaard, who is pitching with a bone spur in his elbow, for the first time. Custom New York Jets Jersey . Michell Burger, a woman who lives on an estate next to Pistorius gated community, said she and her husband were awoken by the screams in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 14 last year, when Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp by shooting four times through a door in his bathroom. Ny Jets Jerseys For Sale . 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MONACO -- The worlds fastest man is slowing down.Usain Bolt again said he doesnt plan to run the 200 meters in his final season, realizing that breaking his world record of 19.19 seconds is now likely beyond him.Speaking Friday in Monaco before picking up the IAAFs male athlete of the year award for a sixth time, the 30-year-old Bolt said he thought he could dip under the 19-second barrier at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. But coming off the bend in the final, he felt his legs didnt have a record-beating performance in them.After last season, I kind of figured out that no matter how hard I work at this point, it probably is going to be hard to [break] the 200-meter world record, Bolt said. And its a lot more work. And for me, coming to the end of my career, Im not trying to do too much work.He also didnt sound too optimistic about breaking his 100-meter record of 9.58 either.If I can go through my season -- which I doubt -- without any injuries, then anything is possible, he said.Bolt ruled out returning for the 2020 Tokyo Games. The nine-time Olympic champion said his coach told him, Do not retire and come back to the sport. Dont ever do that. ... So you have got to make sure you are sure.Not to brag or anything, but a lot of people at 30 havent accomplished what Ive accomplished, so for me, I think Ive done all I wanted to, Bolt said.He made it clear that his final season would be more of a farewell tour than a drive for more records. He is targeting a few races in his favorite places, mentioning Ostrava, Czech Republic; Lausanne, Switzerland; and Paris.This season is pretty much mainly for the fans, Bolt said. A lot of people always wanted to see me compete and havent had the chance.But there are some things he is certain he wont be doing:? He ruled out playing American football, saying he doesnt want to get hit.? He also ruled out swittching to bobsled, like American hurdler Lolo Jones, saying, Anybody who knows me knows I dont do well with cold.dddddddddddd? And there is zero chance that he will challenge 800-meter Olympic champion David Rudisha to a race over 400 meters.That wont happen, Bolt said. Not even for charity.Bolt said his immediate plans in retirement are pretty much to do nothing.No more training. I dont have to go to the track unless I want to, he said.Bolt pinpointed the world championships in 2007 as a turning point in his career. After placing second behind Tyson Gay in the 200, Bolts coach told him to get serious.Youre slacking off in the gym. If you want to win, you have to get stronger, Bolt said he was told. From then on, I just took the step and worked.The next year, he won the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay at the Beijing Olympics. He repeated those feats in London and Rio.Bolt said he could have done even better had he knuckled down earlier in his career.I was asked the question earlier what would I have told my 14-year-old self, and I thought it would be definitely to get serious quicker, Bolt said. I think when I was transitioning to being a professional, I was relying more on my talent than actually on the work I was doing.Although he stressed that it wasnt a regret, Bolt said breaking the 19-second barrier in the 200 was probably his only unrealized running ambition.It was something that was possible, could be possible, and I missed out on, he said.Coming off the bend in the 200 in Rio, he realized it was beyond him.In my mind, I genuinely thought that I could have run under 19 seconds until I came off that corner, and my legs decided that we werent going to do anything about this, he said. Its just one of those things. ' ' '