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St. Petersburg, Fla. — The look on Michael Fulmer’s face Wednesday afternoon when pitching coach Chris Fetter sauntered out to the mound was priceless. Fulmer, protecting a three-run lead, pitched a clean, 14-pitch eighth and had just won a 10-pitch battle striking out Jace Peterson for the second out in the ninth. “What the (bleep) are you

By Steve Kornacki |  Special to The Detroit News Detroit — Tigers rookie right-hander Matt Manning left the mound after six innings pounding his glove with a look of satisfaction. He pounded his hand into his glove while walking back to the dugout congratulations. Manning outdueled Milwaukee Brewers starter Brandon Woodruff, whose 2.48 ERA ranked fourth in MLB,

By Steve Kornacki |  Special to The Detroit News Detroit — The Tigers have displayed some real extra-inning magic with back-to-back 11th-inning walk-off wins against teams that are runaway winners in their divisions. Detroit also improved to 12-7 in extra-inning games and only Seattle, with 13 wins, has more in extras. Tigers manager AJ Hinch was

By Brandon Rothenberg |  Special to The Detroit News At the flip of a switch, everything just seemed to click for Nick Plummer. Now 25 years old, the 2015 St. Louis Cardinals first-round draft pick out of Birmingham Brother Rice finally has found his groove at the plate, last month earning a promotion to Triple-A Memphis. He’s hitting .292

Detroit — The dueling Peraltas portion of the festivities at Comerica Park Tuesday night ended in a mark-less draw before Mother Nature intervened. The Milwaukee Brewers’ Freddy Peralta and Tigers’ Wily Peralta — who spent the first six years of his career with the Brewers and left the year before Freddy arrived — put up

Detroit — The colors were different. He was in the wrong dugout. But everything else about Daniel Norris was just as it ever was. “It’s definitely weird being back here,” he said. Norris, who had been with the Tigers since 2015, was traded to the Brewers on July 30 for Double-A right-hander Reese Olson. He stayed

By Ronald Blum |  Associated Press New York — The Seattle Mariners will host baseball’s 2023 All-Star Game at T-Mobile Park. The team announced a news conference for Thursday at Seattle’s Space Needle with baseball commissioner Rob Manfred. The purpose of the news conference is to announce that Seattle will be the site of the 2023 All-Star Game,

Beth Harris |  AP Sports Writer Los Angeles – As the standing ovation for his 3,000th career strikeout grew louder, Max Scherzer paused on the mound. He doffed his cap, tossed the souvenir ball toward the dugout, and immediately got back to work. Mr. Efficiency, indeed. No time to waste when it’s September, your new team

Detroit — Robbie Grossman noticed it as soon as the Tigers reconvened after the All-Star break. There was something different about Jeimer Candelario. “You could tell when he went home for the All-Star break and came back, he had that look in his eyes,” Grossman said. “You could tell he went home and worked on some

Detroit — You understand the rationale behind the shortened starts. With limited work in the pandemic-truncated 2020 season, workloads have to be managed carefully this season and both Casey Mize and Tarik Skubal have quadrupled their innings over last year. But, man, it would’ve been fun to see Skubal keep pitching on Sunday. “Yeah, he was great,”

Detroit — Already, Tigers skipper AJ Hinch is getting tired of the “Little Engine That Could” narrative. How about the “Little Engine That Did?” The Tigers were down to their final strike Sunday when Jeimer Candelario blasted his second home run of the game, a two-run shot off reliever Andrew Kittredge to tie the game at

It did what it was intended to do, those six weeks during which Jackson Jobe and Ty Madden threw at the TigerTown complex at Lakeland, Florida. It got them ready for 2022 — when, assuming health holds, they’ll finally pitch in games somewhere in the Tigers farm chain. Each pitcher, drafted 1-2 by the Tigers in

By the final month of most professional baseball seasons — big-league, or minors — a ballplayer typically ticks downward. Numbers fall. Energy ebbs. Fatigue sets in. Ryan Kreidler has pulled an end-around. Ignore a .253 batting average in July, and Kreidler each month since June has raised his hitting numbers, which is how you win promotions from

Detroit — It was the response you’d expect from the defending American League champs and a team threatening to run away with the East Division title. After enduring a 10-4 loss to the Tigers on Friday night, the Tampa Bay Rays came hungry Saturday and put a 7-2 beating on the Tigers at Comerica Park. “The

Detroit — Victor Reyes is a fighter. Every time the roster numbers look like they are lined up against him, every time it looks like he’s going to get another ticket to Triple-A Toledo, he goes on a tear at the plate. “Just as the roster was starting to squeeze and we thought he was

Detroit — The Tigers aren’t completely closing the door on Matthew Boyd pitching again this season, but the odds are stacked hard against that happening. “He’s going to see doctors next week,” manager AJ Hinch said Saturday. “He is scheduled to see Dr. (Keith) Meister in Dallas and then we’ll get further evaluations and opinions and

Detroit — The ball really did hit him. Jonathan Schoop will show you the scratch on his leg if you need proof. “Yeah, he told me, ‘It actually did hit me,'” Akil Baddoo said. “I said, ‘Well be glad they didn’t call it. You got a grand slam.” In a night of unique feats and wild

Detroit — The last team standing in a crazy back-and-forth ballgame at Comerica Park Friday night was — not the American League East-leading Tampa Bay Rays. Jonathan Schoop hit a grand slam home run in the bottom of the seventh inning off reliever Andrew Kittredge that sent the Tigers on their way to a rousing 10-4 win. Schoop’s fifth

Baseball Hall-of-Famer and Bally Sports Detroit color analyst Jack Morris was back in the booth Friday, marking the end of a 10-game suspension for seemingly imitating an Asian accent during an at-bat by Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani in August. Before the baseball began, though, the former Tiger still had a little cleaning up to do. Morris,

Detroit — Thursday was a well-earned off day for the Tigers, but lefty Matthew Boyd likes to throw the day before he starts. So, he dragged catcher Dustin Garneau to Comerica Park so he could stay on his routine. It ended up being anything but routine. Boyd was scratched from his start on Friday after feeling