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Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The good news on Matthew Boyd is there’s no structural damage to his pitching arm. But the Detroit Tigers will have to make do without their veteran left-hander for a few weeks. Boyd, placed on the 10-day injured list earlier this week, has been diagnosed with muscular tendinitis. Boyd departed
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Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press Matt Manning set the Detroit Tigers up for success in his major-league debut, but his new teammates fumbled the opportunity to stretch their winning streak to four games. The Tigers’ defense and bullpen struggled Thursday during their 7-5 loss to the Los Angeles Angels. Manning, the organization’s top pitching
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Dana Gauruder |  Special to the Detroit Free Press Detroit Tigers starter Matt Manning made a promising major-league debut but couldn’t quite match Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani. The Angels then battered Detroit’s bullpen and ended the Tigers’ three-game winning streak, 7-5, on Thursday. Taylor Ward clubbed a grand slam off Kyle Funkhouser during the
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The final piece of the Detroit Tigers’ long-desired, rarely seen “Big Three” is finally making his big-league debut: Matt Manning, taken ninth overall in 2016 by the Tigers is set to start Thursday night in Anaheim, California, against the Los Angeles Angels. Manning was part of a dominant group of starters for Double-A Erie in
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Detroit Tigers rookie Casey Mize wants the world to know he wasn’t cheating Tuesday night in Kansas City. After pitching a scoreless first inning, Mize was pulled aside by home plate umpire John Tumpane. Catcher Jake Rogers joined the conversation. The umpire said Mize’s glove color was too light. The lighter the color, the more districting
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Matt Manning hadn’t seen Tarik Skubal in two months. The 23-year-old right-hander’s season for Triple-A Toledo was supposed to catapult him to the Detroit Tigers and his MLB debut in 2021. He was eager to join Skubal and Casey Mize — a pair of 24-year-olds expected to lead the starting rotation into the future. But Manning’s season wasn’t going as
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Home plate umpire John Tumpane approached Detroit Tigers right-hander Casey Mize and catcher Jake Rogers after the first inning for a conversation. Manager AJ Hinch exited the dugout to join them. “He said the gray color was too light,” Mize said. “I thought it was pretty shitty, pretty shitty thing to do. I assume everyone thinks
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The Detroit Tigers are bringing right-handed pitcher Matt Manning to the big leagues, in an effort to aid their injured starting rotation. Losing Spencer Turnbull and Matthew Boyd to injuries left the Tigers with three starters: Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal and Jose Urena. To find a fix, the Tigers announced Tuesday that Manning — already on
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For the third game in a row, the Detroit Tigers relied heavily on their bullpen. Starter Jose Urena couldn’t make it out of the second inning in Saturday’s loss to the Chicago White Sox, and manager AJ Hinch implemented a scheduled bullpen game for Sunday’s loss to the ChiSox in the series finale. In Monday’s 10-3 win
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