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Given their past history with second-round draft picks, which, as far as position players goes, has not been sterling, the Tigers were bound at some point to score. They might have something going at Single-A Lakeland where Izaac Pacheco is suddenly clicking. Heading into Sunday’s game, Pacheco was on a 9-for-27 run the past eight

Saturday evening at Comerica Park, the Tigers unveiled a new starting pitcher, Beau Brieske, who pitched well enough against the Rockies to hint at how true was his rise through the Tigers farm chain after signing as a 27th-round draft pick. Repeat: a 27th-round draft selection, which normally is where friends and family are selected.

Detroit — He has hits against all 30 major-league teams (Cleveland, 266). He has hits in 41 ballparks (Comerica Park, 1,108). He has hits in every spot in the lineup (from 1,653 batting third to just one batting leadoff). He has hits in 16 different innings (545 in the first). And he has hits off 997 pitchers — take

Detroit — The bat met the ball, as it has so many times, with a sharp crack. And the man met the moment, decades in the making, then hours in the making, the legend officially bronzed on a brilliant day, in a perfect way. Miguel Cabrera did something rarely seen, and the truth is, something

Former Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford left Detroit and became a Super Bowl champion. He returned to his old stomping grounds and witnessed history Saturday. Stafford, who spent 12 seasons in Detroit before he was traded to the Los Angeles Rams in January 2021 for three draft picks and quarterback Jared Goff, was at Comerica Park

Detroit — There are two pitches rookie right-hander Beau Brieske might very well regret — both ended up in the seats and provided the margin of defeat in the Tigers’ 3-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies in the second game of a doubleheader Saturday. But on a whole, he made a most favorable impression in his

What a gift a man, whose talent is unfailingly historic, gave all of Detroit’s baseball realm Saturday at Comerica Park. With one blur of a swing, Miguel Cabrera tagged a 94.7-mph fastball from Antonio Senzatela for the 3,000th hit in his majestic big-league baseball career. It came at 1:24 p.m. on a sunny spring afternoon

Detroit — Commission the statue, clear space on the Comerica Park bricks and alert the Hall of Fame. Miguel Cabrera has officially stamped his place among the immortals of this great game. With his first-inning single Saturday off Colorado right-hander and fellow Venezuelan Antonio Senzatela, Cabrera now has achieved what only a handful of players have in the

Detroit — Commission the statue, clear space on the Comerica Park bricks and alert the Hall of Fame. Miguel Cabrera has officially stamped his place among the immortals of this great game. With his first-inning single Saturday off Colorado right-hander and fellow Venezuelan Antonio Senzatela, Cabrera now has achieved what only a handful of players have in the

Ticket demand for Saturday’s rescheduled doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and Colorado Rockies was growing on Friday night and expected to increase on Saturday morning with Miguel Cabrera one hit away from reaching the 3,000 career hit milestone. Hundreds of fans were lined up outside the Comerica Park box office on Friday night looking for

Detroit — Victor Reyes did a lot of running Thursday. The Tigers outfielder legged out a fielder’s choice ground ball, preventing a double-play, in the third inning and scored from first on a double by Robbie Grossman. Later, in the eighth, he hit his own double. He also raced back to the track in center

Detroit — Now it’s Mother Nature making Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera wait. Friday night’s series opener between the Tigers and Colorado Rockies at Comerica Park was postponed due to inclement weather, keeping Cabrera’s hit total at 2,999. It will be made up as the second game of a split doubleheader Saturday at 6:40 p.m. The originally scheduled game on Saturday

News staff and wire services Cooperstown, N.Y. — Baseball’s Hall of Fame is restructuring its veterans committees for the third time in 12 years. The Hall said Friday it is revamping the panels into the Contemporary Baseball Era from 1980 on and Classic Baseball Era for before 1980. The Contemporary Baseball Era will hold a

Detroit — Tens of thousands of fans stood on their feet Thursday, cheering loudly and aiming their camera phones at Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera each time he stepped to the plate in anticipation that he would pound out his 3,000th career hit. But that one magic base hit to make history didn’t come to fruition

Detroit — The sun came out, the temperature rose above 60 degrees and the fans — an announced crowd of 21,529 — filled the lower deck of Comerica Park in anticipation of a history-making hit by Miguel Cabrera. Instead, they “settled” for a much-needed and hard-fought 3-0 win over the New York Yankees and some loud and

With a packed house on hand hoping to witness history at Comerica Park, Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera looked like he was going to get one last crack at recording his 3,000th career hit on Thursday. Yankees manager Aaron Boone had other plans. With runners on second and third with two outs and a 1-0 lead in

Detroit — As he was about to make history Thursday, Miguel Cabrera was thinking about the future — the Tigers’ future. It was three hours before game time and Cabrera was nestled into his corner space in the Tigers’ clubhouse holding court on numerous topics, not all of them related to his pursuit of 3,000 hits. “When

Detroit — The magic number is down to one. Miguel Cabrera singled in his first three at-bats Wednesday during the Tigers’ 5-3 loss to the Yankees — Nos. 2,997, 2,998 and 2,999 of his illustrious career. It was the loss, though, that was most on his mind afterward. “I didn’t hit the ball hard and got

Detroit — Tigers pitching coach Chris Fetter was in the middle of the infield Wednesday, about three hours before game time, having an animated, mostly one-sided conversation with his pitching staff. The topic, controlling the run game. The Yankees stole four bases against the Tigers Tuesday night, two of them without a throw, two of

Detroit — The magic number is now two. Miguel Cabrera singled in his first two at-bats Wednesday against Yankees starter Luis Severino — the 2,987th and 2,988th of his career. They were two very different swings, too. The first was an infield single. He rolled over a two-strike pitch and a charging third baseman D.J.