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There was no deer-in-the-headlights look from Tigers rookie infielder Zack Short. And that’s a good thing. His parents already had seen enough of that, hitting a deer on their way to the airport in upstate New York ahead of their flight to Detroit to see Zack make his major-league debut in the first game of a doubleheader

Detroit — A player’s track record matters. It’s relevant. So when manager AJ Hinch says he trusts the back of Jonathan Schoop’s baseball card and expects him to fight his way out this early-season slump, you can take comfort in that. This is Schoop’s ninth big league season. When he’s healthy, he generally will hit between .260

Detroit — Maybe if he was bashing baseballs all over the yard, the discussion would’ve been different. But Renato Nunez, after struggling at the plate in spring, produced four hits (two home runs) and three RBIs in 29 plate appearances after being called up from the taxi squad in Cleveland on April 11. With Miguel Cabrera

Tuesday night’s series opener between the Tigers and Pirates at Comerica Park has been postponed because of inclement weather. The game was called about two hours before the scheduled first pitch. It will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on Wednesday, with the the first seven-inning contest slated for 2:10 p.m. and the second starting at

Detroit — Spencer Turnbull didn’t stay too long on the self-pity train. “At first I was frustrated and disheartened a little bit,” he said. “But perspective is everything. You can look at it as, ‘It sucks, and woe is me, I can’t believe this happened,’” he said. “Or you can look at it as, ‘Yeah, it

Detroit — Back in a previous life, before the internet, before Statcast, before electricity (it feels like), I covered the Doug Collins era of Pistons basketball. Watching the Tigers’ woebegone offense over the weekend and trying to come up with different ways to ask manager AJ Hinch about it brought this memory back. I used

Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a weekly series of stories in which Detroit News freelance writer Lynn Henning will rank the top prospects in July’s MLB Draft. April began heading toward May and it looked as if three shortstops, nationally, all of them high school stars, would force the Tigers and various big-league brethren

Detroit – When the dust settled, Oakland Athletics starter Chris Bassitt struck out eight Tigers hitters and got 17 swings and misses in six strong, dominant innings, helping his team complete a four-game sweep over the Tigers, 3-2 Sunday. The only Tiger hitter who pestered him was Harold Castro, who got two hits off him

Detroit – Matthew Boyd didn’t want to use the term snake-bit to describe what happened in Oakland on Sunday – that would be too convenient, too much like an excuse. “It’s just how it happened,” he said. “I wouldn’t say it was luck. We were just on the wrong side of opportunities.” The Tigers ended up

Should you drop by the TigerTown expanse at Lakeland, Florida, this week — and that’s discouraged, because during COVID times you’re not allowed anywhere near the place — you will see what looks like baseball’s version of a Boy Scout Jamboree. There are kids everywhere. Young baseball players swarm the five outlying fields. Older, bluer-chip talents

You knew at some point this season, manager AJ Hinch and pitching coach Chris Fetter would have to find creative ways govern innings for rookie starters Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize coming off a pandemic-shortened 2020 season when they both made the leap from Double A to the big leagues. We’ve reached that point. The

Detroit – The Tigers might need to resort to sorcery or some other form of black magic to break the hex against the Oakland Athletics. Or, failing that, try stringing a few hits together and scoring some runs. The Athletics rode three well-struck early home runs off rookie Casey Mize on their way to a breezy

Detroit — Entering Saturday’s game in Oakland, the Tigers starters had allowed two runs or fewer in six straight games. As a unit, they’ve posted a 3.68 ERA while holding opponents to a .228 batting average. Conversely, the bullpen has scuffled — 7.24 ERA, .266 opponent average, 1.6 WHIP with an untenable 31 walks in 51

Josh Dubow |  Associated Press Oakland, Calif. — Frankie Montas allowed two hits in six sharp innings and the Oakland Athletics won their sixth straight game by beating the Detroit Tigers 3-0 on Friday night. After opening the season with six consecutive losses, the roller-coaster A’s are back at .500 after 14 games thanks to their follow-up

Janie McCauley |  Associated Press Oakland, Calif. — Stephen Piscotty and Matt Olson homered to back Sean Manaea’s first victory of the season, and the Oakland Athletics won their fifth straight game by beating the Detroit Tigers 8-4 on Thursday night. Piscotty connected in the third inning off Tarik Skubal (0-2), and Olson went deep in

Detroit – Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball on April 15, 1947. Seventy-four years later, the Tigers players, coaches and staff members wore black t-shirts under their game jerseys in Oakland with the words Breaking Barriers emblazoned on the chest. And every player or coach who stepped on a field across the Major

The Tigers announced Thursday that they will be putting individual-game tickets for May series at Comerica Park on sale Friday. Series next month include matchups with the Minnesota Twins (May 7-9), Kansas City Royals (May 11-13), Chicago Cubs (May 14-16), Cleveland Indians (May 24-27) and New York Yankees (May 28-30). Tickets are available starting at $10. Quantities

Some of us were there for the whole, inconceivable show in 1976. We watched that Saturday afternoon in May when he debuted as a starter and when something akin to baseball’s version of nuclear fission occurred on a baseball mound at Tiger Stadium. We saw the story build and grow in fury and fascination. Joined

Houston — Numbers don’t necessarily lie, but they can misdirect you from the truth sometimes. The metrics from Tarik Skubal’s last start against the Indians were somewhat alarming, as was his performance. The average velocity on his fastball, which stayed in the 95-96 mph range last year and through spring training dropped to 93.5 and the

Houston — The Houston Astros, just hours before trying to salvage the third game of this series with the Tigers, placed five key players on the injured list for what the club cited as “health and safety protocols.” The players were starters Yordan Alvarez, Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman and Martin Maldonado, plus utility man Robel Garcia.