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Detroit — Sitting in the dugout hours before the game, manager AJ Hinch was asked what he liked best about rookie Riley Greene so far. Hinch didn’t miss a beat. “One hundred miles per hour off the bat,” he said. Why wouldn’t he. Greene had two baseballs fly off his bat Tuesday night with exit velocities

Detroit — Don’t play ping-pong against Tyler Alexander. Not for money or for anything you’d hate to lose. He drew Michael Fulmer in the team’s clubhouse ping-pong tournament on Monday. Fulmer is pretty darn good, too. But it’s hard to stay on point against Alexander. His non-stop narration can’t help but distract you. “Nice friendly game,

As sure as bets go in the MLB Draft — and that’s one reason gambling can be perilous — the Tigers would jump on Texas Tech left-handed swinger and infielder Jace Jung with their 12th overall turn July 17 in the MLB Draft’s first round. Jung, however, could/should be gone by the time Detroit chooses. And that

Detroit — The way Jonathan Schoop was buzzing around the ball field Monday, playing both games of the doubleheader against Cleveland, you’d never know he was 30 years old and grinding through a miserable start to his 10th big-league season. When the long day ended, Schoop, who came into the game batting under .200 and

Detroit — Tattooed on Garrett Hill’s left arm is a baseball, with the seams colored red. Inscribed around it are the words Dignity, Respect, Pride and Honor. It offers a little window into what’s inside this bespectacled right-hander. “My coach at Santa Rosa Junior College (Tom Francois) told me that’s what every man has, dignity,

Detroit — The Tigers will, for the fourth time since 2021, purchase the contract of veteran right-hander Drew Hutchison. He will start in the finale Wednesday and likely stay in the rotation at least through the All-Star break. “It’s a good opportunity for me,” the 31-year-old Hutchison said. “It was the quickest opportunity to the

Detroit — Austin Meadows has no idea why all this has happened to him. But if baseball teaches you anything, it’s that it does you absolutely no good to wallow in what’s already happened — be it good, bad, or in his case, unfathomably unlucky. You need to keep moving forward. “It’s tough,” said Meadows,

Detroit — Losing a home series to the only team beneath you in the Central Division standings seems like a rough way to spend a holiday weekend. But, given how things have gone this season for the Tigers, it was fitting. The Kansas City Royals rode a pair of second-inning home runs off starter Tarik Skubal

Last year was, yes, a dream for Akil Baddoo. This year also has been a dream — or, rather, at times a nightmare. Until this week: 10-for-20 in five games against Louisville heading into Sunday’s contest. Two home runs (Saturday). Two doubles. That’s more like the Baddoo the Tigers saw a year ago during his Rule

There is no such thing as a holiday — a pitching holiday, free from disruption — at Triple-A Toledo. And that works not only for the Tigers, but in a counter-intuitive way, for Mud Hens manager Lloyd McClendon. It just means his bullpen, his largely unflappable bullpen, will probably get extra work. Take that latest news-jolt from

Detroit — Lloyd McClendon pulled the old okey-doke on young right-hander Garrett Hill. The Toledo Mud Hens manager pulled Hill and pitching coach Doug Bochtler into his office Saturday and started challenging him to start throwing more strikes. “Lloyd told me to sit down and he goes, ‘Coming up to Triple-A you weren’t exactly pounding the

Detroit – From the sound of it, Riley Greene hitting in the leadoff spot isn’t just an experiment or a one-off. He might be there a while. “My goal with Riley and where he’s going to hit,” Tigers manager AJ Hinch said before Saturday’s game. “I hope he hits in the leadoff spot for the next

Detroit – Riley Greene, before he knocked a walk-off home run into the center field shrubs Saturday giving the Tigers a thrilling 4-3 win, found himself caught in a crossfire between shortstop Javier Báez and Royals reliever Amir Garrett. This was in the sixth inning and Greene had just been called out on strikes by

Detroit — The Tigers were dead in the water. No hits since the fifth inning. Then, boom boom. Victor Reyes and Riley Greene hit back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the ninth and the Tigers escaped with a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals Saturday at Comerica Park. Before that, the only intensity came

Riley Greene’s first major-league home run was a big one. With one out in the bottom of the ninth, Greene walloped a 1-0 pitch over the wall at Comerica Park’s center field on Saturday, pushing the Tigers past the Royals, 4-3. You can watch it here: Greene’s blast was the second of back-to-back home runs in the

Detroit – Is it really possible the Tigers are at yet another crossroads with third baseman Jeimer Candelario? After back-to-back productive seasons, after leading the Major Leagues with 42 doubles last season and being named Tiger of the Year by the Detroit chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America in 2020 and 2021, Candelario

Detroit — Coming back off the long road trip, there was some housekeeping to do before the Tigers started a short homestand Friday night. To wit: ► Veteran right-hander Michael Pineda was activated off the injured list and would, rain permitting, make his first start Friday since breaking a finger on his pitching hand on

Detroit – First things first. Tigers rookie Spencer Torkelson was hit in the side of the head with an 88-mph changeup from starter Brad Keller in the seventh inning of the Tigers’ 3-1 loss to the Royals Friday night. And in what might pass as the only good news for the home team on this

Detroit — Coming back off the long road trip, there was some housekeeping to do before the Tigers started a short homestand Friday night. To wit: ► Veteran right-hander Michael Pineda was activated off the injured list and would, rain permitting, make his first start Friday since breaking a finger on his pitching hand on

Detroit — The Tigers aren’t going to make the playoffs this year. That’s something we can agree on, right? The hole is too deep, the injury list isn’t shrinking fast enough, there’s probably not enough at-bats left in the season for the likes of Javier Báez, Jonathan Schoop, Robbie Grossman, Jeimer Candelario and others to get