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Tim Dahlberg Associated Press Published 4:32 AM EDT Aug 16, 2020 In Los Angeles the other night, the cutouts behind home plate had extra big smiles on their faces as Mookie Betts smashed three home runs at Dodger Stadium. On the same night, Yu Darvish took a no-hitter into the seventh inning at Wrigley Field,

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 11:26 PM EDT Aug 15, 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 6:27 PM EDT Aug 15, 2020 Detroit — Cameron Maybin was going through his post-game routine Friday night, only halfway paying attention to his cell phone blowing up with text messages. “I saw stuff about ‘making history’ but I was more focused on us losing and trying to get

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 5:38 PM EDT Aug 15, 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

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 3:15 PM EDT Aug 15, 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

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:32 AM EDT Aug 15, 2020 Detroit – Eighteen. And counting. The Tigers’ chronic inability to beat the Cleveland Indians has extended into 2020. With a six-run fourth inning, the Indians Friday night beat the Tigers for the 18th straight time, 10-5 at Comerica Park. “It’s definitely frustrating,” said reliever

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:33 AM EDT Aug 15, 2020 Detroit — Before Friday night’s game at Comerica Park, Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire and Indians skipper Terry Francona had a chance to commiserate on the craziness and unpredictable nature of this COVID-stricken season. “We’ve both had our health issues,” said Gardenhire, 62, a cancer

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 11:34 PM EDT Aug 14, 2020 Detroit – Eighteen. And counting. The Tigers’ chronic inability to beat the Cleveland Indians has extended into 2020. With a six-run fourth inning, the Indians Friday night beat the Tigers for the 18th straight time, 10-5 at Comerica Park. “It’s definitely frustrating,” said reliever

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:52 PM EDT Aug 14, 2020 Detroit — Before Friday night’s game at Comerica Park, Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire and Indians skipper Terry Francona had a chance to commiserate on the craziness and unpredictable nature of this COVID-stricken season. “We’ve both had our health issues,” said Gardenhire, 62, a cancer

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 5:57 PM EDT Aug 14, 2020 Detroit — You draw fast conclusions at your own peril with this Tigers baseball team. As manager Ron Gardenhire repeated before the game Friday, it’s going to be a mix-and-match situation at a few positions. If somebody is in left field one day, it

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 1:59 PM EDT Aug 13, 2020 Detroit – Tigers catcher Grayson Greiner stared into the Zoom lens for a couple of beats, processing what he’d just heard. “In your entire athletic life, you’ve probably never lost 17 straight times to the same team,” was how the conversation started. “The

The Detroit News Published 11:08 AM EDT Aug 13, 2020 A rough three-season stretch for the Detroit Tigers has produced at least one silver lining: a burgeoning farm system. That system now is No. 6 in baseball, according to Baseball America’s midseason rankings published Wednesday. That’s a five-spot climb from the preseason rankings, and continues a gradual

Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 11:00 PM EDT Aug 12, 2020 A year ago, when he was an Arizona State University slugger maybe headed for the 2020 MLB Draft’s first overall pick, Spencer Turnbull imagined summer, 2020. It would be spent at some summer minor-league outpost. He would be dealing with everyday games, and

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 7:19 PM EDT Aug 12, 2020 Detroit – The image of Matthew Boyd dejectedly handing the ball to manager Ron Gardenhire and walking head-down off the field is becoming disturbingly common already this season. “We have to get this thing cleaned up,” Gardenhire said Wednesday after Boyd was tagged

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 4:37 PM EDT Aug 12, 2020 Detroit – The image of Matthew Boyd dejectedly handing the ball to manager Ron Gardenhire and walking head-down off the field is becoming disturbingly common already this season. There were positive moments, for sure, but in the end, Boyd, the Tigers’ ace, has

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 3:07 PM EDT Aug 12, 2020 Detroit – Talk about a rock and a hard place. First baseman C.J. Cron, in a one-year deal with the Tigers, knows that surgery to repair ligament damage in his left knee is inevitable. And, in his experience, recovery time for a surgery

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 5:54 AM EDT Aug 12, 2020 Detroit — Tyler Alexander will be the first to tell you, he gives up home runs. It’s part of the package with him. He doesn’t have an overpowering fastball but he attacks hitters as if he does. That fearlessness is part of what

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 11:15 PM EDT Aug 11, 2020 Detroit — Tyler Alexander will be the first to tell you, he gives up home runs. It’s part of the package with him. He doesn’t have an overpowering fastball but he attacks hitters as if he does. That fearlessness is part of what

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:59 PM EDT Aug 11, 2020 Detroit — Ron Gardenhire knows that sometimes his jokes are a few decades beyond some of his players’ reach. Like last year when he called outfielder Travis Demeritte “Dobie Gray,” because of his maddening tendency to drift after fly balls. Gray’s “Drift Away” was hit

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 5:15 PM EDT Aug 11, 2020 Detroit — No matter how many times the replay was viewed Monday night, even in slow-motion, you never got a clear look at where or if the hard-hit ground ball by Danny Mendick struck Tigers first baseman C.J. Cron. All you knew for sure