Seattle — It was kind of a beer frame night for Tigers rookie Tarik Skubal, facing the Mariners in the series finale after Casey Mize allowed a run in 7.2 innings Monday and Spencer Turnbull threw a no-hitter on Tuesday. Oh, it’s a thing. “He doesn’t have to match what Mize and Turnbull did,” manager AJ Hinch
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Seattle — The last time Eric Haase traveled with the Tigers, he was on the taxi squad and the club was in the thick of a 3-18 morass. Now he’s on the active roster and, well, it’s been a little different around here. “I just love this team,” he said. “I can’t even put into words,
You never know when the moment will arrive and the mind will click. No matter the team or the record, the everlasting charm of baseball is its penchant for delivering unexpected magic. Spencer Turnbull never knew when, or if, the moment would arrive. He spent much of his first three seasons with the Tigers battling
Seattle — It was early in April in 2019 and the Tigers opened the season on the road. Then-manager Ron Gardenhire had announced that rookie Spencer Turnbull would start the home opener against the Royals and he was contemplating sending him home from New York a day early to rest and prepare for the matinee
Seattle — You wondered what it would look like. Just how dominant could he be, with that arsenal, with that freakish movement and velocity, if he could just harness it and command it. It might just look like this. Spencer Turnbull, in his 50th big-league start, pitched the eighth no-hitter in Tigers history in a 5-0 win
Seattle – You don’t immediately think “motivational speaker” when you see Tarik Skubal. He’s typically very intense and serious, but mostly he’s quiet. He prefers to speak with deeds and not words. Which is why it was intriguing to think of him Tuesday, back on his old college baseball field, giving a pep talk to
Seattle – Casey Mize just keeps getting better and better. On Monday, he threw his fourth straight quality start, allowing just three hits and a run over 7.2 innings in the Tigers’ 4-1 win over the Seattle Mariners in the first of three at T-Mobile Park. “He’s been a big starter for us in this last
Seattle – At least he still has his sense of humor. Tigers’ embattled reliever Joe Jimenez was asked how it felt to put up a zero against the Cubs on Sunday. “Well, it’s been a while, you know,” he said, with a wry grin slicing his face. It hadn’t been that long, actually. He closed
Editor’s note: This is the 12th in a weekly series of stories in which Detroit News freelance writer Lynn Henning will rank the top prospects in July’s MLB Draft. That crafty, caring head coach at Vanderbilt, Tim Corbin, knew exactly what he was doing two weeks ago. He decided to give Jack Leiter a week off.
Seattle — If the Tigers hit and scored runs on a more consistent basis, their margin for error would be bigger and issues like this might not come up at all. But the Tigers are one of the worst-hitting teams in baseball. They average a little more than three runs per game. That’s the cushion Tigers
A look at how Tigers minor-leaguers are faring two weeks into their 2021 season. Triple-A Toledo Who’s hot … ► Cole Peterson, SS: Peterson’s been a habitual hitter since the Mud Hens got their 2021 schedule rolling. He’s batting .333, with an .846 OPS, all while playing a solid shortstop. Peterson bats left-handed, is 5-foot-11, 160
Not that Tigers fans have been in the dark here, but a certain big-league baseball team from Detroit has had its strikeout issues in 2021. The Tigers have the third-most whiffs of any team in the majors, which invites inquiries about whether things might be any better on Detroit’s farmlands in terms of swinging and
Tigers top prospect Spencer Torkelson still is looking for his first professional home run. But on Saturday night, he had his first big hit. Torkelson delivered the first walk-off of his short career in the Tigers’ farm system, with a two-out, bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Single-A West
Detroit — Hit ’em where they ain’t, you say? The Cubs did some of that, sure, but actually found a fair amount of success hitting it at the defense and watching the Tigers make a mess of one play after another in a 5-1 getaway-day dud at Comerica Park on an otherwise glorious Sunday afternoon. It was difficult to
Detroit — More than anything with his fundamentals or positioning at the plate, the Tigers just want Willi Castro to keep his head up. There’s no film you can watch to work on that. “I see him as a guy who’s pressed a little bit,” Tigers manager AJ Hinch said Sunday morning, ahead of the series
Detroit — Harold Castro was, for much of Saturday’s Detroit Tigers game against the Chicago Cubs, a study in baseball frustration. In the third inning he hit a bullet, 98.6 mph off the bat that Statcast showed had an expected batting average of .520. That ball died in the glove of right fielder Jason Heyward. Then he
Detroit — To paraphrase James Baldwin: There’s nothing more dangerous than a man who has nothing to lose. Tigers right-hander Kyle Funkhouser is feeling a little bit like that these days. After getting his teeth kicked in last season (14 runs in 17 innings) and being unceremoniously optioned back to Triple-A this spring — if
Detroit — It never was going to be easy, and it never was going to be quick. But what exactly is an acceptable period of time to rebuild the Tigers, particularly when you look around the game and see other rebuilds coming to fruition, from Chicago to San Diego, and elsewhere in between? That’s the question
Detroit – The education of Tarik Skubal continued Friday night. And the lessons aren’t getting any easier. The rookie left-hander was hit hard and took his sixth loss of the season without a win, as the Cubs opened the three-game interleague set at Comerica Park with a 4-2 win. The loss snapped the Tigers’ four-game
Detroit – The education of Tarik Skubal continued Friday night. And the lessons aren’t getting any easier. The rookie left-hander was hit hard and took his sixth loss of the season without a win, as the Cubs opened the three-game interleague set at Comerica Park with a 4-2 win. The loss snapped the Tigers’ four-game