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Tarik Skubal helped the Tigers start their doubleheader against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday with a 7-2 win, but Detroit exhausted all the runs it had in the tank in the early game, as the offense went virtually silent in a 5-0 loss in the nightcap. Whatever Skubal did during the All-Star break, he might want to

Whatever Tarik Skubal did during the All-Star break, he might want to try doing it again before his next start. Skubal was back to his early-season form against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday, allowing just one run and striking out nine over six innings in the Tigers’ 7-2 win in the first game of a doubleheader. Skubal was

After heading into the All-Star break with three straight quality starts, right-handed pitcher Beau Brieske has been placed on the 15-day injured list, the Tigers announced Thursday. The team said it’s “right forearm soreness” that’s keeping the 24-year-old sidelined. His stint on the IL is retroactive to July 18. In a corresponding move, the Tigers

Go through the gallery to see The Detroit News’ midseason grades for the Detroit Tigers’ 2022 season, compiled by Chris McCosky. Click here if you have trouble viewing the gallery. Detroit — If we were to do this correctly, we’d issue a collective F and then assess the individual players on a pass-fail basis. Sadly, that is not the

Beth Harris |  Associated Press Giancarlo Stanton homered in a sweet spot in his Dodger Stadium homecoming at the All-Star Game, with 50 family and friends in the stands where he watched games as a youngster. Byron Buxton followed with another drive and the American League won its ninth straight Midsummer Classic, beating the National League

Scott Pleis should have called the police Tuesday. The Tigers were grand-theft victims after having been “picked” numerous times on Day 3 of the 2022 MLB Draft. But, ah, getting the charges to stick — there’s the problem in 2022 as MLB teams marshaling the same analytics data and merging it with the same scouting

Detroit — It doesn’t get much better than this if you are a developing baseball player. Three days of instruction from Tigers legends Alan Trammell and Lance Parrish? Let’s go. For the 12th straight year, Trammell and Parrish will host a baseball camp together at Wayne State University. This year it will run from July 26-28

Brock Porter, a right-handed pitcher out of Orchard Lake St. Mary’s, was selected with the 109th overall pick by the Texas Rangers in the fourth round of the MLB Draft on Monday. Porter slipped farther down the draft than many anticipated. MLB.com’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo mocked him to the New York Mets at 11th overall and the

A day after the Tigers locked-in on bats with their first two picks, they again went – mostly – with hitters and position stock in Monday’s second stanza of the 2022 MLB Draft. Four of the six players taken Monday were hitters: Luke Gold, a third baseman and fifth-round pick from Boston College; Danny Seretti,

After picking two position players in the first couple rounds of the 2022 MLB Draft, the Detroit Tigers selected their first pitcher. Troy Melton, a San Diego State University product, was nabbed with the 117th overall pick. Melton played four seasons with the Aztecs, tossing a total of 163⅔ innings and posting a 4.12 ERA. In his

Cleveland — The tarp had been laid across the infield at Progressive Field Sunday morning and it was starting to sprinkle. Finally, something was about to go right for the Tigers. After using five pitchers and Harold Castro in a 10-0 loss Saturday, enduring their eighth loss in nine games, their major league-leading 13th shutout

By Ronald Blum |  Associated Press Los Angeles — Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole and the rest of major league pitchers are likely to be looking over their shoulders next season — at a pitch clock. Clocks have cut the length of minor league games by about a half-hour this year, and baseball officials appear certain to promote the timers

They were hoping for something seismic Sunday evening — for a temblor or two that might alter the Tigers’ options in the 2022 MLB Draft’s first round. They got their shake-up. A couple of early and surprising pitching picks preserved a host of hitters, including Jace Jung, a left-handed slugger and second baseman whom the Tigers

Detroit — It’s almost incomprehensible how awful the Tigers have been, in so many areas, in so many ways. Equally incomprehensible: There’s no clear way to fix it. A season billed as the end of the rebuild has turned into utter, historic misery, unlike anything we’ve ever seen. The offense is threatening franchise and MLB records

After the Tigers opted for a hitter and infielder with their first-round pick Sunday, they doubled up in the second round, snagging University of Oklahoma shortstop Peyton Graham with the 51st overall turn in the 2022 MLB Draft. Graham, 21, is a right-handed swinger, 6-foot-3, 185 pounds, who in 67 games this season for the

A stream of early blindsides gave the Tigers a gift Sunday night when, with the 12th overall pick, they scooped up Texas Tech slugger Jace Jung with their first turn in the 2022 MLB Draft. Jung was a Tigers target throughout their spring scouting safaris. But they couldn’t count on a left-handed slugger, who played second

Cleveland — The road is not always straight and perfect. Tigers’ manager AJ Hinch said that before the finale of the Tigers-Guardians series was rained out Sunday. The topic was struggling rookie Spencer Torkelson. A few minutes later, after the postponement was announced and before the Tigers’ players departed for a short All-Star break, Hinch pulled Torkelson

Some of the best young talent in the minor leagues was on display in Dodger Stadium on Saturday for the 2022 MLB All-Star Futures Game, including Detroit Tigers’ prospects Dillon Dingler and Wilmer Flores. Flores, 21, who was promoted from high-A to AA this year, pitched 2/3 of an inning in the showcase. The righty forced Philadelphia

Cleveland — There is rain in the forecast for Sunday. No jury would convict the Tigers for rooting for a deluge. Their pitching staff is in tatters after veteran starter Michael Pineda endured the worst of his 178 career starts, giving up eight runs in two innings as the Tigers were routed by the Cleveland

Do the Tigers get the hitter they most need — at all levels — when the 2022 MLB Draft gets rolling at 7 p.m. Sunday? Or, because the best hitters could well have been picked over by the time Detroit takes its turn, 12th overall, will a Tigers team famous (or notorious) for plucking pitchers