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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 —

For three games at Minute Maid Park, the Detroit Tigers looked like a different team — and a much better team. After getting swept by Cleveland and falling into a four-game losing streak, manager AJ Hinch asked his players to respond. They most definitely got his message. The Tigers (6-6) swept the Houston Astros on

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

Less than three hours before the Detroit Tigers game against the Houston Astros on Wednesday, the Astros put five players on the injured list: designated hitter Yordan Alvarez, third baseman Alex Bregman, second baseman Jose Altuve, catcher Martin Maldonado and infielder Robel Garcia. They were removed from the team for the time being because of health

Detroit Tigers catcher Wilson Ramos is turning back the clock. It’s not 2016, when Ramos crushed a career-high 22 home runs in 131 games for the Washington Nationals. But it’s not 2020, either, when the 12-year MLB veteran only picked up five homers in 45 games for the New York Mets. Until someone dethrones him,

Believe it or not, Detroit Tigers rookie Akil Baddoo isn’t perfect. The Rule 5 draft pick put his inexperience on display in Monday’s 6-2 win over the Houston Astros. Seeking his second home run in the series opener, Baddoo drove a fastball into the right-center field gap. He flicked his bat, trotted slowly out of the

The Detroit Tigers got on a plane Sunday night, after getting swept by Cleveland in a three-game series, with plenty of improvements to make. They were on a four-game losing streak with seven games left in a daunting 10-game road trip. Through two games against the Houston Astros, the woes of the last series have been

If the Detroit Tigers need him, infielder Zack Short will be ready. When the Tigers added first baseman Renato Nunez to the 26-man roster, thus removing him from the taxi squad, Short took his place. The squad, which gives teams extra reserves on road trips, puts the 25-year-old one step closer to his MLB debut.

If it weren’t for Miguel Cabrera’s left biceps strain, slugging first baseman Renato Nunez — who hit 43 home runs over the last two seasons with the Baltimore Orioles — would likely still be on the Detroit Tigers‘ taxi squad. The taxi squad, only allowed for road trips, is the closest a member of the alternate training site

Casey Mize‘s fastball command was crummy. As he put it: “Really bad, just couldn’t find that.” He sauntered back to the dugout wondering how — after two walks, one single and one hit-by-pitch through two innings — he could make it through the opposing lineup a second or third time without succumbing to the nucleus of the Houston

Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch waved to the crowd. He tipped his baseball cap, flashing the Old English D emblem, to a standing ovation from the fans. It was his first time back at Minute Maid Park since getting fired in January 2020. After the emotions, the Tigers (4-6) buried the Houston Astros — the team Hinch managed from 2015-19 — with a

It had been 455 days since AJ Hinch last showed face inside Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros. He was on his way out as the manager, fired from his job because of the team’s sign-stealing scandal. It had been 1,258 days since Hinch won the 2017 World Series, followed by a victory parade through the city amid

The Detroit Tigers received information from team doctors that allowed them to breathe a sigh of relief about Miguel Cabrera, who was put on the 10-day injured list Sunday with a left biceps strain. Cabrera, too, was relieved upon hearing the injury was a “mild strain,” manager AJ Hinch said Monday. This means the former