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After a night off to celebrate the 6th no-hitter in Detroit Tigers history courtesy of Spencer Turnbull, we are back with the Detroit Tigers Minor League Report as all four teams won last night and the number “five” was Riley Greene’s favorite number.

Detroit Tigers: Spencer Turnbull is not for sale at the trade deadline by David Rumptz Spencer Turnbull no-hit the Seattle Mariners, producing the eighth no-hitter in Detroit Tigers history. He struck out nine batters and threw 117 pitches. He allowed just ONE hard hit ball all game long.

Spencer Turnbull made Detroit Tigers’ history against the Seattle Mariners last night, tossing the eighth no-hitter in team history. Now that he has neared the pinnacle of performance for a pitcher (only a perfect game could top his performance), some fans are calling for Turnbull to be traded. I firmly believe that there is no…

Last night Spencer Turnbull authored one of the finest pitching performances in Detroit Tigers history. Rogelio offered this recap right after it happened, and a bit later Yoop touched on the historical aspect of Turnbull’s achievement, as well as the general nature of baseball magic.

It’s no secret the Detroit Tigers offense has struggled this year. Despite some recent signs of life, the offense is in the bottom five in the MLB in run production, strikeouts, and OPS. With the pitching staff showing some improvement across the board, the Tigers need to find some bats to follow suit, as they…

That’s what baseball does. You just never know when lightning will strike. For a team mostly going nowhere, smack in the middle of an era where the organization has had little to celebrate…a pitcher like Spencer Turnbull, with a 9-25 career record, decided to give the Detroit Tigers that shining moment where it all came…

George Mullin, Virgil Trucks, Jim Bunning, Jack Morris, Justin Verlander, and now you can add Spencer Turnbull to the Detroit Tigers pitchers who have thrown a no-hitter. Turnbull, the 2nd round draft pick in 2014 out of the University of Alabama tossed a gem in the Emerald City as the Tigers won 5-0 over the…

Last night, we witness the Detroit Tigers play one of their better games of the season in their first win in Seattle in three years.  A key aspect of the Tigers’ victory was the play of Jake Rogers and Casey Mize as it was a simpatico relationship in motion for a second consecutive start.

For the first month of the Detroit Tigers season it seemed like minor-league action would help distract from the brutal MLB product. But the Tigers have been decent in May! They’re 7-7 on the month and their run differential is just -8, a far cry from the ugly -58 we saw in April.

Seattle is a city known best for big corporate coffee and a famous fish market. But on Monday night it was Detroit Tigers pitcher Casey Mize who turned the Mariners lineup into a pile of minced meat with a thoroughly impressive performance to guide the Tigers to a 4-1 victory.

Mark Gorosh presents 15 things we need to discuss about the Detroit Tigers, May edition. Check out his April edition here.  1. Let’s start with some good news… the Detroit Tigers have gone 6-7 in May.

Detroit Tigers fans are familiar with the musings of Sparky Anderson and what he said about the first 40 games for any baseball team. It is an indication of where you are heading as a team. The first 40 games marks the first quarter of an MLB season, and so far we have seen injuries…

Tarik Skubal took the hill for the Detroit Tigers versus the Chicago Cubs on Friday looking to continue the the construction of his big league career by building off a solid start last weekend against the Minnesota Twins. Things didn’t go quite as smoothly this time for Skubal.

West Michigan Whitecaps infielder Spencer Torkelson fields ground balls during practice Monday, May 3, 2021 at LMCU Ballpark in Comstock Park, MI. White Caps Replay Review: Bull Durham by Alexandra Simon

Bull Durham is one of those enduring classics. The bawdy baseball comedy, which came out in 1988, boasts a sort of universal appeal. The movie, a Western in cleats, possesses a kind of rustic, ageless charm. Perhaps best known as the movie that brought stars Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins together, Bull Durham details the…

The Mud Hens overcame a rough start by Wily Peralta, who only went one inning, allowing four hits and a pair of home runs. The bullpen allowed Toledo to come back, pitching eight shutout innings among five relievers including Buck Farmer in his first appearance for the Mud Hens since 2017 as Toledo won 6…

Just a few days ago, national baseball reporter Jon Paul Morosi went on a Detroit radio station and said the Detroit Tigers rebuild is behind schedule, but Al Avila’s job probably isn’t in immediate jeopardy.

All four of the Detroit Tigers’ full-season affiliates suffered from a lack of offense on Tuesday, but that wasn’t the case last night, as the clubs combined to score 33 runs. But the biggest story may have been on the mound in Erie. Read about that and more in the…

Earlier today the Detroit Tigers made a sad, but inevitable, announcement: The Tigers have announced the following roster moves: *Placed C Grayson Greiner on the 10-day IL with a left hamstring strain*Selected C Eric Haase from AAA Toledo*To make room for Haase on the 40-man roster, RHP Franklin Pérez has been placed on unconditional release…

The Detroit Tigers narrowly averted disaster thanks to Robbie Grossman’s walk-off winner last night, but four minor-league affiliates weren’t quite as fortunate. Erie, Lakeland, Toledo, and West Michigan went 0-4 and combined to score just five runs. Read below to learn the gory details.