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Detroit — You can curse the baseball gods and bemoan buzzard’s luck for a couple of seeing-eye singles the Pirates hit off reliever Gregory Soto in the eighth inning that ultimately sunk the Tigers, 4-2, in the series finale Thursday at Comerica Park. But the Tigers didn’t do much to create their own misfortune, squandering another

Detroit — During the nightcap of a very chilly doubleheader on Wednesday, manager AJ Hinch sidled over to JaCoby Jones. Jones, who lost his regular center fielder role earlier in the season, had gone 0-for-2 in the first game and was enduring a 1-for-21 skid with 10 strikeouts. “’Is this any fun for you?’” Hinch said,

Detroit — Fair or not, scrutiny comes with the territory for a big-league player, especially for players who come in with the credentials and hype of Tigers’ rookie pitchers Casey Mize and Tarik Skubal. The scrutiny, intensified these days by the availability and accessibility of data and information, can be dispiriting, distracting and disruptive to

Show Caption Hide Caption Tigers’ Jonathan Schoop on .182 batting average: ‘Good things are going to happen’ Chris McCosky talks to Jonathan Schoop, who was 1-for-3 with a two-out RBI in the opener vs. Pittsburgh and he hit a 403-foot home run in Game 2. The Detroit News Detroit — A player’s track record matters. It’s

Detroit – On a chilly, 42-degree night, after losing 10 pounds and more than two weeks to the COVID-19 virus, Tigers right-hander Spencer Turnbull needed just one inning to shake off the rust in his 2021 debut. Turnbull, who got put in COVID-19 protocol after his last spring training start on March 10, gave up

The Tigers are offering at least two sections of $10 tickets for every home game this season, except for the one obvious game they didn’t, Opening Day. But those cheap seats are in small supply and apparently high demand, fans are finding out. For the three games against the Chicago Cubs and the three against

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

The snow eventually melted, except for some cool-looking whitecaps on the shrubs in straightaway center field. But the Tigers’ bats remained on ice. The Tigers managed just three hits against soft-tossing left-hander Tyler Anderson, and the Pittsburgh Pirates held on for a 3-2, seven-inning victory in the opener of a doubleheader Wednesday at Comerica Park.

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