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When Dan Hasty woke up Sunday morning, he expected to spend the day with his eight-month-old daughter, Josie. His wife, Angelina, was treating COVID-19 patients in the emergency room at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in downtown Grand Rapids. Hasty planned an early morning workout before watching VeggieTales, a Christian television series for children, with his daughter for

We knew the Detroit Tigers would come back to Earth after a, well, Astro-nomical three-game sweep of Houston. (Of course, we didn’t know they were going to sweep in the first place, because if we had, we would probably not be allowed inside any of the sportsbooks in downtown Detroit anymore.) But a brutal four-game

Tie game. Bottom of the ninth. Jose Cisneros on the mound for the Detroit Tigers. Matt Olson at the plate for the Oakland Athletics. Cisneros threw a 97 mph sinker and Olson lifted a high pop up towards center — and it soared right into the sunshine. Tigers shortstop Willi Castro couldn’t get to it,

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press No matter how chilly it might get around here in the middle of this week, the Detroit Tigers will be thrilled to be 2,387 miles from Oakland. They started the week with a three-game sweep of manager AJ Hinch’s former club in Houston. That became a distant memory

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The sun got in Victor Reyes’ eyes and plunged the Detroit Tigers into darkness. Mitch Moreland hit a walk-off single with two out in the ninth as the Oakland A’s completed a four-game series sweep with a 3-2 win on Sunday. Matt Olson reached with one out against Gregory

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The return of Spencer Turnbull will result in Tarik Skubal coming out of the bullpen for a short time. Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch considers it a modified six-man rotation. Turnbull will make his season debut against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday. He has been on the COVID-19

It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of a prospect making his major-league debut, especially when their narrative is as improbable as Akil Baddoo’s — Rule 5 draft pick, home run on his first pitch, sent from a dying planet to fight for truth, justice and the Ilitch-ian way, etc. — has been

The Detroit Tigers are getting ready to return home. Following Sunday’s clash with the Oakland Athletics, they will have completed a 10-game road trip filled with good and bad. During this journey, the Tigers — with a 6-9 record entering Sunday — have shown they may be a streaky but competitive team this year. Manager AJ Hinch’s squad

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press What Casey Mize did after giving up a career-high three homers on Saturday may be just as portentous as what he did in his previous start. A meltdown and a quick hook could have ensued. Instead, Mize grinded through three more innings after allowing three bombs in a

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press A few early long balls made for a very long afternoon for Casey Mize and the Detroit Tigers. Mize gave up three homers — all in the first two innings — for the first time in 10 career starts,  and the Tigers lost their third straight game in

Detroit Tigers right fielder Nomar Mazara was placed on the 10-day injured list on Thursday but it will take longer than that for his left abdominal strain to heal. There’s no timetable for his return but it’ll be “at least a couple weeks” before he’s ready, manager AJ Hinch said before Saturday’s game in Oakland,

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press Pitching and defense failed the Detroit Tigers in their series opener at Oakland on Thursday. Their bats went silent on Friday. They were shut out for the first time this season, 3-0, while producing just four singles. Oakland starter Frankie Montas and three relievers overpowered them, racking up 11

The Detroit Tigers played an ugly brand of Zombie baseball Thursday night against the Oakland A’s. The Tigers were so sluggish, so inconsistent, so unable to simply throw strikes, that they looked like a group of guys who tried to play a baseball game after pulling an all-nighter. Which also happens to be true. After

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Tigers played mostly clean baseball while sweeping a three-game series from the Houston Astros this week. Their opener in Oakland on Thursday was marred by the Dirty Dozen. Detroit pitchers issued 12 walks in an 8-4 loss to the A’s at RingCentral Coliseum. The free passes led

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Tigers arrived in Oakland in a giving mood. Their generosity extinguished a three-game winning streak, as their pitchers issued 12 walks and their infielders committed two errors in an 8-4 loss to the A’s on Thursday. They were coming off a road sweep of the Houston

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Tigers will go without the starting right fielder for at least the next 10 days. Nomar Mazara has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a left abdominal strain. Reliever Joe Jimenez has been recalled from the taxi squad to take his spot on

Hey, come here, kid. Derek Holland wanted to talk to Alex Lange on Saturday night in the Detroit Tigers‘ bullpen at Progressive Field in Cleveland. “He called me over and sat me down in the first inning and was just kind of going over some things to do,” Lange said. Lange, a 25-year-old right-handed reliever,

For the first time since June 14, 2018, Detroit Tigers right-hander Michael Fulmer walked out of a major-league ballpark as a winner. He pitched five innings against the Houston Astros in Wednesday’s 6-4 win, dispatching the first 11 batters he faced and giving up two runs. Fulmer’s first win in 1,035 days didn’t come out of

Bryan Garcia inherited the bases loaded and no outs in the ninth inning. Controlling a three-run lead, the Detroit Tigers initially turned to right-hander Jose Cisnero. He gave up two walks and a single. Manager AJ Hinch called on Garcia, who ended last season as the team’s closer, to dust off the Houston Astros —

Detroit Tigers outfielder Nomar Mazara departed from Wednesday’s game against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park with a left abdominal strain. The timetable for Mazara’s return is unclear. “Right now, it’s day-to-day,” manager AJ Hinch said after the game. “I don’t have a ton of information on it. I generally have high concern when