Bless You Boys

As we enter the final week of the season, let’s take a look around some of the news from the Detroit Tigers and around the league. The first key piece of offseason news from the Tigers has arrived early. New President of Baseball Operations, Scott Harris, along with A.J. Hinch, had a sit down with

The Tigers played a clean, well pitched game and took advantage of a few key Twins mistakes to even the series at a game apiece on Saturday night. Things started well for the Tigers, though the squander monster was still in evidence. Drew Hutchison allowed a single but no more in the top of the

The Detroit Tigers’ season-high six-game winning streak came to an end Friday night against the Minnesota Twins. The Tigers fell 7-0 and looked nothing like the team that’s shown up for the past three series. Tyler Alexander looked like he was on his way to a third-straight quality start early, but things began to fall

They say “better late than never” and one could make that argument for the Detroit Tigers, who are currently riding a six-game winning streak — all against American League Central opponents — and have also taken the last three series. After yet another season that has worn the fanbase’s patience thin. the Motor City Kitties

There are many ways to build up a farm system. While the Detroit Tigers have been largely using high picks in the draft to do so, the international free agency period is an equally important aspect where the teams with top farm systems seem to consistently take advantage. The Tigers have not been among them.

The Detroit Tigers came into this one looking to make it six wins in a row and consecutive sweeps over division opponents. With the pitching matchup in their favor the chances of taking down the Royals seemed pretty good, and so it played out on a sunny autumn afternoon at Comerica Park. Eduardo Rodriguez got

The final day of the minor league season for the Detroit Tigers affiliates did not go the way we wanted. Still, it was a pretty strong year of development, with most of the club’s prospects making serious gains. The system is lacking in blue chip prospects, and worse, the blue chippers they graduated haven’t been

After a late scratch of Matt Manning moments before the start of the game due to “arm fatigue,” the bullpen pulled off a fantastic patchwork effort with a 2-1 victory, all the runs being scored in the first inning. Will Vest got the emergency start for the Tigers — and his first ever start as

Somerset Patriots 9, Erie SeaWolves 2 (box) In a must-win game for the Somerset Patriots, they jumped all over Erie SeaWolves pitching to run away with Game 2 of their best-of-three series for the Eastern League championships. Starter Chance Kirby took the brunt of the Somerset assault. After the SeaWolves went 1-2-3 in the top

Things didn’t look good until the eighth inning came around, but the Detroit Tigers managed to pull off a comeback 4-3 victory against the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night, extending the team’s winning streak to four games. Joey Wentz cruised through the first inning of the ball game, needing just nine pitches to get

Detroit Tigers (60-92) vs. Kansas City Royals (63-90) Times/Place: 6:40 p.m., 6:40 p.m., 1:10 p.m., Comerica ParkSB Nation Site: Royals ReviewMedia: Bally Sports Detroit, MLB.TV, Tigers Radio NetworkPitching Matchup: LHP Joey Wentz (2-2, 3.13 ERA) vs. RHP Zach Greinke (4-9, 4.21 ERA) Game 153 Pitching Matchup Player IP K% BB% FIP fWAR Player IP K%

Well, well, well Tigers fans… just when you thought Detroit was going to circle the toilet bowl as the regular season’s schedule empties out, AJ Hinch’s boys have got it goin’ these past couple of series against American League Wildcard hopefuls. First, the Motor City Kitties traveled to Baltimore to take two of three from

Facing the possible American League Cy Young winner in Dylan Cease, the Tigers were able to find a way to complete the weekend by beating the White Sox 4-1 in Sunday’s finale. Tyler Alexander started on the mound for Detroit and threw the ball extremely well. The offense wasn’t able to get anything going for

Based on how the 2022 Detroit Tigers’ season has played out, season ending injuries are no surprise on the pitching front. That said, it’s really too bad that a superb breakout campaign from reliever Joe Jiménez has ended with only a week and a half remaining due to a lumbar strain. The club announced on

Another good performance from the top of the lineup and a well played game overall saw the Tigers take their second in a row over the White Sox by a score of 7-2 on Saturday night. The Tigers offense once again got out to a quick start in this one against White Sox’ rookie Davis

The Detroit Tigers took down the Chicago White Sox Friday night by a score of 5-3. The offense got going early but then cooled off in typical Tigers fashion. Fortunately, the young core of the team came up big after the White Sox came back to tie things up late. This was Detroit’s fifth game

The Detroit Tigers put up a heck of a fight against the Baltimore Orioles this week in Camden Yards, taking two of three from the American League wild-card contender to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to avoiding a 100-loss season. On that point, the Motor City Kitties need to win six of

Erie SeaWolves 6, Richmond Flying Squirrels 2 (box) The SeaWolves pulled out all the stops, mixing three different starting pitchers to tame the Squirrels in Game 2. However, it reliever Adam Wolf who came up clutch, while Quincy Nieporte landed the big blow, launching a three-run shot that carried the SeaWolves to victory. Erie built

The Detroit Tigers came into the series finale with the Baltimore Orioles looking to do something it had never done before in franchise history, sweep a season series of 6 games or more. Unfortunately, Jordan Lyles had other ideas and the Orioles hitters got to Manning to take the series finale, 8-1. Jordan Lyles completely

Erie SeaWolves 9, Richmond Flying Squirrels 3 (box) Step aside, Mud Hens. Erie gets top billing in our daily minor league report the rest of the way. Coming into this first round of the Eastern League postseason, I couldn’t help be reminded of the Casey Mize, Matt Manning, Tarik Skubal rotation monster that stalked the