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Kansas City, Mo. — The Tigers did what they were supposed to. They came into Kauffman Stadium and won three out of four games from the second-worst team in baseball. They finished off the series Thursday with a 3-0 win and will bring a 5-2 record home from this road trip to Seattle and Kansas

Kansas City, Mo. — Soon after the Tigers took high school right-hander Jackson Jobe with the third overall pick in the 2021 draft, he got a brisk reality check from manager AJ Hinch. “I told him, ‘These guys have seen better stuff than you have,’” Hinch said, referring to big-league hitters. “’This is not the

Kansas City, Mo. — Riley Greene has had a cat-bird’s seat for most of Eduardo Rodriguez’s starts this year. What he saw from the veteran lefty on Wednesday was, well, impressive for sure but not at all surprising. “Eddie is always good,” said Greene, who had three hits and triggered the game-flipping rally in the

Kansas City, Mo. — Eduardo Rodriguez was certainly the center of attention for trade deadline shoppers Wednesday. And the Tigers’ lefty, expected to be coveted by pitching-lacking contenders, did not disappoint. He had one minor hiccup in an otherwise dominant seven-inning performance, putting the Tigers in position to beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2 at

Kansas City, Mo. — It was three hours before the game Wednesday and Tarik Skubal already had a full lather going. He went over his post-game report from his rough outing Tuesday night with pitching coach Chris Fetter, he’d reviewed the video over and over, and he’d been out in the dense humidity working through

Detroit — The longest-running Negro Leagues weekend celebration in Major League Baseball returns this weekend, as the Detroit Tigers host the 21st-annual Negro Leagues Weekend July 21-23 when the San Diego Padres visit Comerica Park for a three-game series. The 27th-annual Negro Leagues Tribute Game on Saturday will be the highlight of the weekend. The

New York – Major League Baseball had a night of offense not seen in 129 years, with 12 teams scoring double-digit runs including the Tigers losing to the Royals, 11-10. Twelve teams tied May 30, 1884, for the second-most in one day, trailing only 13 on July 4, 1894, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Kansas City, Mo. — Before the game, Spencer Torkelson stirred up a portion of Royals Nation with his half-serious response to a Twitter photo clearly showing Kansas City’s Monday night starter Jordan Lyles with a strip of sticky stuff on his left wrist. “He’s 1-11,” he snarked, referencing Lyle’s won-loss record. “You can have it.

Lakeland, Fla. — This guy with long blonde locks and a black headband swatting baseballs Tuesday morning on TigerTown’s back lots hardly resembled a rookie. Especially when he stepped to the plate. Nice set-up, with his left-handed bat waggling as he leaned on his back leg, knee flexed. Fast path through the ball. Loud line

Kansas City, Mo. — Eduardo Rodriguez is going to let everyone else worry about the Aug. 1 trade deadline. He’s not sweating it. Not even a little. “It’s easy,” he said Tuesday when asked how he was dealing with it. “The only thing I can do is go out and pitch. Just go out every

Kansas City, Mo. – The photo popped up Twitter last night. Tigers manager AJ Hinch estimated he got it sent to him about 5,000 times. It was sent out by Kansas City-based @dadbodtee. It was a picture of Royals starting pitcher Jordan Lyles from Monday night, when he blanked the Tigers on three hits over

Kansas City, Mo. — Before the game Monday, manager AJ Hinch joked that he was trying to play Zach McKinstry at every position. “He won’t catch,” he said, and then checked himself. “Well, I mean, knock on wood, you never know.” McKinstry started the game at shortstop Monday and in the ninth inning moved to

Kansas City, Mo. — There’s always that moment in a baseball game, that pivotal moment where the outcome hangs in the balance. It can come early, late or somewhere in the middle innings. That moment for the Tigers on Monday came in the eighth inning. They trailed 2-0 and had not scored a run in

Kansas City, Mo. — There’s always that moment in a baseball game, that pivotal moment where the outcome hangs in the balance. It can come early, late or somewhere in the middle innings. That moment for the Tigers on Monday came in the eighth inning. They trailed 2-0 and had not scored a run in

Kansas City — There are very few elite-level players as self-aware and self-critical as Tigers’ shortstop Javier Báez. If the first step toward recovery is copping to the problem, Báez is well on his way to getting right. “I am a fastball hitter,” he said before the game Monday. “It doesn’t matter who it is.

Outfielder Max Clark, the Detroit Tigers’ pick at No. 3 overall in last week’s draft, has signed his first contract, the team announced on Monday afternoon. Clark, who was rated No. 22 overall in Baseball America’s new top 100, is a prep standout from Franklin, Ind. and according to reports, the contract is worth $7.7

Nolan Bianchi pinch-hits for Tony Paul to preview the second half of the season and the trade deadline with Chris McCosky on this edition of the Tigers Today podcast. Here are other highlights from The Detroit News/Detroit Tigers podcast: ▶ 1:00: Starbucks gifts for Miguel Cabrera ▶ 2:30: Beau Brieske healthy ▶ 4:00: Matthew Boyd’s

Seattle — This is why AJ Hinch doesn’t put a lot of stock in momentum. The Tigers came into the series finale at T-Mobile Park Sunday riding two impressive victories against the Mariners. If ever a team had some momentum, right? Seattle starter Bryce Miller didn’t get the memo. In his first start since June

Seattle — It had to feel like an eternity. Shoot, it had to feel like the day might never come. It had been 368 days between Beau Brieske’s last big-league pitch last season and his first pitch this season. For a talented 25-year-old who defied the odds as a 27th-round draft pick out of a

Not much in the way of drama came with Luke Gold’s fifth-round plucking by the Tigers in last year’s MLB Draft. Decent prospect, as the term would apply: Boston College outfielder, right-handed hitter, 6-foot, 220 pounds. Fairly typical of wishes and hopes reserved for players drafted 147th overall. The Tigers and their fans were even