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Detroit – Fuses were short on this damp Friday but the Tigers’ offensive wick never got lit. Twins right-hander Kenta Maeda hadn’t pitched in a big-league game since April 26, sidelined with a triceps injury. And when he walked Zach McKinstry and gave up a single to Spencer Torkelson in the bottom of the first

Detroit – He’s not going to go there and, quite honestly, we shouldn’t want him to go there. AJ Hinch knows his Tigers went into this weekend series with the Central Division-leading Twins trailing them by just three losses. He also knows it’s June. “I will grant you, we are in the mix,” he said,

Detroit – Hardly a game goes by when Spencer Torkelson doesn’t scoop an errant throw out of the dirt at first base, preserving an out and preventing a throwing error for one of the other infielders. Nobody in baseball, per Sports Info Solutions, digs balls out of the dirt more successfully than Torkelson does. We

Detroit – Casey Mize threw off the bullpen mound before Wednesday’s 9-4 win over the Kansas City Royals. He didn’t throw the full 60-feet, six inches. The catcher stood in front of the plate, cutting roughly five feet off the distance. He threw 10 fastballs. It doesn’t sound like much, does it? A Major League

Detroit — Baseball is relentless. That’s what Tigers’ catcher Eric Haase said after the Tigers took the series from the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday with a methodical 9-4 matinee win at Comerica Park. He was talking about Royals’ second baseman Samad Taylor, who had a hellish inning and a half at the end of

Associated Press London — London seems like a no-brainer for a European road trip. Paris is all but assured next. Why not throw in Germany and the Netherlands? Major League Baseball has big plans for Europe, starting with an English reintroduction to the sport this weekend when the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs play

Detroit – The Tigers have faced a battalion of right-handed starting pitchers this month – 16 of the first 17 games, to be precise. And with left-handed hitters Riley Greene and Akil Baddoo out of the lineup for most of the month, it was a challenge. There was some clamoring, as you might expect, for

Detroit — The way Tarik Skubal explained it, he’s pushing as hard as he can to go as fast as he can and the Tigers’ medical and training team is like one giant harness trying to hold him back. “But that’s good,” he said. “That’s how it has to be. Because I am anxious. I

Detroit – It almost felt fated. “We had the right guy up at the plate at the right time and he got the right pitch and we got the right outcome,” manager AJ Hinch said afterward. It was looking like the Tigers were going to get beat by a starting pitcher who had amassed the

Detroit — It looked for a minute that Nick Maton might be figuring things out. He hit a big home run in his return to Philadelphia. He hit safely in five of eight games earlier this month. He even poked a couple of hits off his personal kryptonite, breaking balls. But, alas, it didn’t hold.

Detroit — Tigers president of Scott Harris met with the media for 13 minutes before the game Monday and he touched on a wide range of topics. He didn’t necessarily break any news, but he provided a lot of insight, particularly regarding the development curve of the Tigers’ No. 4-ranked prospect Colt Keith. The 21-year-old

There can be quibbling among the nation’s watchdogs and wizards about which player goes one-overall in next month’s MLB Draft. But all the top outlets and entities, across the land, agree: The Tigers will draft University of Florida outfielder Wyatt Langford with the third overall turn in next month’s gala, which runs July 9-11. ESPN’s

He hit a home run June 9 against Bowie, then another on June 10, which was the same night Colt Keith dived for a ball and — oh-oh — aggravated that right shoulder he hurt a year ago that cost him the final four months of the 2023 season. No big deal, it seems. Keith

Minneapolis — Spencer Torkelson didn’t understand at first why he suddenly became the object of the fans’ ire at Target Field. In the third inning, he fouled off a pitch thrown by Twins starter and St. Paul-native Louie Varland. The ball was smoked, and it hit off the row of retired numbers that are displayed

Minneapolis — Not even a fist-bump. Nothing. Jason Foley, in the most tense moment of the game Sunday, stranded the bases loaded in the eighth inning, striking out Joey Gallo and Byron Buxton, breaking the hearts 31,221 fans at Target Field and preserving a two-run lead, and he walked off the mound without displaying an

Almost three months to the day the Tigers said he would be shelved with lumbar spine inflammation, Jackson Jobe was back — pitching in a Florida Complex League game Saturday against the Blue Jays at Dunedin, Florida. And pitching well: Two innings, six batters, no hits, no walks, two strikeouts, two groundouts. It would rank

Minneapolis — Casey Mize sat in front his locker Sunday morning, sipping a cup of black coffee. “I love playing and I miss it,” he said. “I’m process-oriented so all this is fine, I guess. But I much prefer to play and compete, right? I’m ready to play.” It’s been a year and three days

Minneapolis — The action in the Tigers’ 2-0 loss to the Twins Saturday at Target Field, which took all of two hours and six minutes to complete, can be distilled essentially into two plays. Both came in the pivotal fifth inning and both involved third baseman Zack Short. The first came in the top of

Minneapolis — Tigers president Scott Harris is steadfastly unapologetic about scouring the waiver wire like a binging bargain hunter. He’s made 19 waiver claims in his short time at the helm. Some have panned out, some have not. But he’s seemingly found gold in lefty reliever Tyler Holton. Holton’s 1.2-inning stint Friday was his sixth

Minneapolis — Matt Vierling deleted his Twitter account when he got to the big leagues a couple of years ago. Smart man. “I’d hit four balls hard and take crap from people on Twitter and then I’d start thinking about my swing,” he said, smiling. “All of a sudden somebody on the internet is getting