Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 1:48 PM EDT Aug 19, 2020 Chicago – Nine days ago the Tigers were 9-5 and, in a season shortened to 60 games with expanded playoffs, the possibility of a postseason berth seemed optimistic but legitimate. Man how things have changed. A season-ending knee injury to clean-up hitter and first
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Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 9:56 AM EDT Aug 19, 2020 Chicago — Casey Mize was getting just as antsy as the multitude of Tigers’ fans who posted “Free Mize” hashtags on Twitter the last few months. As patient as he’s been since the Tigers took him first overall in the 2018 draft, as
Ted Kulfan The Detroit News Published 5:36 AM EDT Aug 19, 2020 TOP OF NINTH Aside from a Niko Goodrum single, the Tigers end the game quietly. The White Sox ruin Tarik Skubal’s debut with a 10-4 victory. Casey Mize makes his Tigers’ debut tomorrow. BOTTOM OF EIGHTH Gregory Soto has been a dependable reliever
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 12:38 AM EDT Aug 19, 2020 Chicago — Debuts can’t all have fairy tale endings. Most of them don’t, actually. But they aren’t often career-defining either. Left-hander Tarik Skubal, who has two years of pro ball experience and none above Double-A, endured a rude big-league baptism in the
Ted Kulfan The Detroit News Published 9:56 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 TOP OF SIXTH What looked like a promising inning for the Tigers ended with sudden disappointment. With one out, Jonathan Schoop singled and Christin Stewart got aboard on catcher’s interference, putting two Tigers aboard. But Jeimer Candelario lined to Jose Abreau at first
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 8:22 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Chicago — Casey Mize was getting just as antsy as the multitude of Tigers’ fans who posted “Free Mize” hashtags on Twitter the last few months. As patient as he’s been since the Tigers took him first overall in the 2018 draft, as
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 1:06 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Chicago — Matthew Boyd sat in front of the Zoom camera Monday night, preparing to take questions from the media a few hours after he’d departed the Tigers’ 7-2 loss to the White Sox. He had time to process his rather manic four innings
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 1:14 AM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Chicago — The thing about being on the taxi squad, you face the same players day after day in intrasquad games and live batting practices. It gets monotonous. So Tigers lefty Tarik Skubal has had his fill of trying to get fellow rookie
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 11:55 PM EDT Aug 17, 2020 Chicago — The thing about being on the taxi squad, you face the same players day after day in intrasquads and live batting practices. It gets monotonous. So Tigers lefty Tarik Skubal has had his fill of trying to get fellow rookie Isaac
Tony Paul The Detroit News Published 10:19 PM EDT Aug 17, 2020 Detroit — Three times, the Tigers have picked first overall in the Major League Baseball Draft, which dates to 1965. But Casey Mize, when he gets his first start Wednesday in Chicago against the White Sox, will be the ninth No. 1 overall pick to
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 8:22 PM EDT Aug 17, 2020 Chicago — Isaac Paredes had no earthly idea how to find the Tigers’ charter airplane hanger Sunday. Heck, even if you’ve been there before it’s hard to find. Excited as he was — it was his first big-league flight — he left plenty
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 2:46 PM EDT Aug 17, 2020 Chicago — We’ve been waiting a couple of years to say this and you’ve been waiting longer to hear it: The future is now for the Detroit Tigers. General manager Al Avila made the landmark announcement Monday from a hotel room in Chicago that
Tony Paul The Detroit News Published 1:58 PM EDT Aug 17, 2020 Detroit — The Tigers are calling up the kids. Left-handed pitching prospect Tarik Skubal will make his major-league debut, starting for the Tigers on Tuesday, followed by former No. 1 draft pick Casey Mize starting Wednesday. The Tigers open a series in Chicago against
John Niyo The Detroit News Published 11:07 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 When it rains, it pours. And the way the Tigers’ starting pitchers have been hitting the showers during games this season – early and often – it was only a matter of time before the levity broke. Sunday, it was Michael Fulmer who
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:13 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit – The Tigers on Sunday had one go-ahead run taken off the board by a questionable ruling by first base umpire Tim Timmons. They had another go-ahead run wiped out by an extremely questionable base-running decision by Miguel Cabrera. Manager Ron Gardenhire
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:28 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit – The only certainty regarding the Tigers’ starting rotation, at least before the game Sunday, was that Matthew Boyd would start Monday in Chicago and Spencer Turnbull would go in the series finale Thursday. In between? Well, stay tuned. Daniel Norris, conceivably,
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 12:23 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit – It must be on every team’s scouting report. Be aggressive out of the box on any ball hit to left field against the Tigers. Christin Stewart graded out as the worst-throwing outfielder in the big leagues last year. The Reds, old
Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 11:24 AM EDT Aug 16, 2020 The minor-league season has been canceled, but the development of the Tigers’ prospects is still a critical aspect of the team’s rebuild. In this series, Lynn Henning will take a look at some of the key players. Today: Jason Foley. They were words
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 4:41 AM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit – In the end, it may not have mattered, but Tigers’ starter Spencer Turnbull wants a do-over. “I wish I could go back and start over tonight,” he said. “But it is what it is. I would’ve loved to give a better
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 4:58 AM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit – The Tigers got through the first couple of weeks of this truncated season without much adversity — no new COVID-19 cases, few injuries and a lot of wins. Suddenly, though, the fortunes have turned. The club made two rather ominous announcements