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Detroit — Casey Mize isn’t falling into the timetable trap. On the injured list for the first time in his young career with a right elbow sprain, Mize isn’t going to look or think too far beyond what’s on his checklist for the day. “One thing a lot of people have been telling me is,

Detroit — The night was never going to be conducive to good, clean baseball. Temperature at game time was 43 degrees and falling into the 30s with a chilly wind. Miserable. But this one, at least early on, exceeded even the lowest of expectations. “Tough night to play on both sides,” Tigers manager AJ Hinch said.

Maureen Mullen  |  Associated Press Boston — Connor Wong drove in the tiebreaking run with a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2-1 on Tuesday night despite getting held to three hits. “It seemed like a playoff game, right? And I managed it like a

Detroit — It was three hours before the game, the wind was whipping and the temperature was hovering around 42. Miguel Cabrera came bounding out of the Tigers dugout and onto the field. “Weather for baseball!” he yelled with a clap and a laugh. “Let’s go!” It didn’t matter if it was weather for baseball or

Detroit — Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera lined a 3-2 slider from Yankees starter Gerrit Cole up the middle leading off the second inning Tuesday night — it was career hit No. 2,996. Four more and he becomes the seventh major league player to accumulate 3,000 hits and 500 home runs in his career. The hit came with

Detroit — After essentially two days off — the rainout Sunday in Kansas City and the first off day of the season Monday — it seemed like a good day to take stock of the Tigers’ ever-lengthening injured list. ►Casey Mize, RHP, right medial elbow sprain: He’s had a series of tests done since he reported the soreness

Nick Plummer sure knows how to make an entrance. Plummer, the former Birmingham Brother Rice baseball prospect who was a first-round pick by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2015, made his major-league debut for the New York Mets over the weekend. Plummer was called up Friday, and entered Saturday’s game as a defensive replacement, but

Lakeland, Fla. — You’re sitting on lobby furniture opposite a man with dark eyes and features that connote some kind of exotic lineage — maybe Italian, perhaps Slavic, in origin. He is 6-foot-2, thick and solid, with the build of a middle linebacker. You ask this man, this ex-big-league outfielder and first baseman who had some

As his Whitecaps settle in for a typical week’s work, West Michigan manager Brayan Pena sighs. Contentedly. On one night, he knows Wilmer Flores, a right-handed mowing machine, will start a Midwest League game for the Tigers’ high-Single A partner. Another day, he pencils in Ty Madden, who a year ago was the Friday night,

Something had to change. Parker Meadows knew it. His numbers through those first years as a Tigers prospect, with all the import that comes with being a second-round draft pick, were flat-out sad, with 2021 a particularly graphic example of how far he had fallen. Meadows had a .210 batting average in 97 games (94

Jackson Jobe’s inaugural flight Sunday as a Lakeland Flying Tigers pitcher was akin to the Wright Brothers’ first lift-off: short. Jobe, 19, who was the Tigers’ first pick a year ago and third overall in the 2021 MLB Draft, worked in his first professional game, a one-inning cameo that saw him throw 19 pitches and

Kansas City, Mo. — It’s an at-bat and a game long forgotten by Miguel Cabrera, just one of the 110 games he played at Kauffman Stadium over the years, one made more unremarkable by it coming at the tail end of the dreadful, COVID-shortened 2020 season. But it is an at-bat Royals right-hander Carlos Hernandez will never

The Tigers series finale in Kansas City on Sunday was postponed because of inclement weather. The game will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader on Monday, July 11. The games are scheduled for 2:10 and 8:10 p.m. The Tigers (4-5) took two of the first three games in the series, falling 3-1

Kansas City, Mo. — For such a low-wattage, low-scoring baseball game, there was a lot going on in the Tigers’ 3-1 loss to the Royals on Saturday at Kauffman Stadium. Not the least of which was the potential loss of another starting pitcher. A day after Casey Mize was placed on the injured list (sprained medial collateral ligament

Kansas City, Mo. — A day after one starting pitcher was placed on the injured list, another left the game after just two innings. Tough times for the Tigers’ rotation. With Casey Mize out for at least 10 days with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right elbow, Matt Manning was removed from his start

Kansas City, Mo. — As manager AJ Hinch was talking to the media a couple hours before game time Saturday, he was mulling whether shortstop Javier Báez would need to be placed on the 10-day injured list. “He’s still really sore,” he said. “I don’t see how he plays (Sunday) and with the off day (Monday),

Kansas City, Mo. — Tigers assistant pitching coach Juan Nieves threw his hat down. He was that sure. “He called the shot,” said Michael Fulmer, who closed out the Tigers’ tense 2-1 win over the Kansas City Royals Friday night. “He said, ‘Tork homer here,’ and he threw his hat down to confirm it. Everybody knows

Kansas City, Mo. — Tigers assistant pitching coach Juan Nieves threw his hat down. He was that sure. “He called the shot,” said Michael Fulmer, who closed out the Tigers’ tense 2-1 win over the Kansas City Royals Friday night. “He said, ‘Tork homer here,’ and he threw his hat down to confirm it. Everybody knows

By Lynn Henning |  Special to The Detroit News Not only all the Tigers audience, but nearly all of baseball’s serious and soulful fans will be waiting and maybe watching these next few days as Miguel Cabrera nears a sacred milestone: 3,000 hits. Cabrera is five from 3,000 following a double on Friday and a three-single

Kansas City, Mo. — Miguel Cabrera lashed a one-out double in the seventh inning Friday off Royals right-hander Brad Keller. It was the 2,995th career hit and 599th double of his career. He is looking to become the seventh player ever to produce 3,000 hits and 500 home runs. Tigers rookie Spencer Torkelson brought him home immediately with