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
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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.
Ronald Blum | Associated Press New York — Major League Baseball wants to see if moving back the pitcher’s mound will increase offense. MLB will experiment with a 12-inch greater distance between the mound and home plate during a portion of the Atlantic League season in an effort to decrease strikeouts and increase offense. The pitching rubber will
Houston – It was just one at-bat, but it felt like it caused a sea change for the Tigers Tuesday night and kickstarted their second straight win over the Astros, 8-2 at Minute Maid Park. And, in keeping with the theme of things these days, it involved Rule 5 rookie Akil Baddoo. A lot things involved
Houston – Michael Fulmer has 85 big-league starts under his belt, so he understands the routine. Or, he used to. This one might be different. His start here on Wednesday comes after three outings and seven impressive innings out of the bullpen. So, what’s the approach? Go back to his starter’s routine or stay with
Houston — Eight of Casey Mize’s first 11 pitches Monday night were balls. He walked Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman and was staring at Yordan Alvarez and Carlos Correa, the Astros’ Nos. 4 and 5 hitters. Three batters in and already things were teetering. Catcher Grayson Greiner took off his mask, called timeout and walked to the mound.
Ryan and Carlee Madis love each other, of course, and they love baseball, and she surely would have come to adore his departed mother who’s the reason he loves baseball in the first place. All of that came into play when it was time to name their strapping first child, who arrived late Saturday morning
Houston – After a miserable weekend in Cleveland, the Tigers decided to have some fun in Houston town Monday. It started with a warm welcome back tribute to Tigers manager AJ Hinch – complete with a video montage and a standing ovation from the crowd of 15,779 at Minute Maid Park – and transitioned smoothly
Houston – As he listed all the experiences he has had in his five years as manager of the Houston Astros – the building a winning team, the two World Series appearances and the championship, surviving a hurricane and dangerous floods, his oldest daughter graduating from a Houston-area high school and his youngest still in
By Dave Campbell | Associated Press Minneapolis — In the raw aftermath of another killing of a Black man by police in Minnesota, there was no place for pro sports in the Twin Cities on Monday. The Minnesota Twins, Wild and Timberwolves all postponed their games a day after the shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright following a
Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a weekly series of stories in which Detroit News freelance writer Lynn Henning will rank the top prospects in July’s MLB Draft. Jud Fabian was supposed to have been The Guy. The best college outfielder, as far as 2021 MLB draft status went heading into spring, was thought to
Cleveland — Coming off three straight losses, with the offense scuffling, losing both Julio Teheran (shoulder) and Miguel Cabrera (biceps strain) in successive days just three games into a 10-game trip, it would have been easy for the Tigers to drag tail into the series finale against the Indians Sunday. Except their manager wouldn’t let them.
What the Tigers saw last December in Akil Baddoo was a profile taken from two sources of baseball insight. One was human: Jim Rough, a scout on the Tigers’ major-league staff, had jotted notes on Baddoo in 2018 as Rough kept tabs on big-league teams, as well as Single-A clubs in his locale. Rough could
What do the Minnesota Twins make of Akil Baddoo, and his hot April start that nicked the Twins in a couple of early games at Comerica Park? They are, officially, happy — for Baddoo, who now is Tigers property thanks to the Rule 5 draft. But they clearly wish he were back in Minnesota’s system,
The Rule 5 galaxy that delivered Akil Baddoo to Detroit exists, and has existed for generations, to keep MLB teams from stockpiling talent in the minors when a few of those talented players might, in fact, be sufficiently skilled to be working somewhere in the big leagues. The Rule 5 remains a long-odds, ridiculously inexpensive,