Detroit Tigers

SAN FRANCISCO — Rony García almost got through the first inning cleanly. Then came hot-hitting Giants third baseman Evan Longoria, who lofted a ball to deep right field to put the Tigers behind early. There was nothing else for García to do but move on. And he did: He dug in and retired the side

Dave Wait doesn’t work for the sake of recognition. In 2004, Wait signed up to volunteer with Motor City Pride, a non-profit organization that produces Michigan’s largest pride festival and organizes annual LGBTQ+ community events. He enjoyed his first volunteer shift so much that he began increasing his participation over the next several years. Fast

When he’s on, watching Javier Báez play defense is one of the true joys of baseball. The Tigers shortstop is already legendary for his grace, athleticism and baseball IQ, regularly turning would-be hits into outs with highlight-reel tags, throws, catches and dives. Yet those special traits weren’t enough to turn a routine grounder into an

SAN FRANCISCO — Miguel Cabrera is no Man of Steal. But he did his best to invoke Rickey Henderson on Tuesday night. No, he didn’t swipe a base in the Tigers’ 4-3 loss to the Giants. Cabrera emulated Henderson the best way he knows how: hitting. Cabrera notched career hits Nos. 3,055 and 3,056 on

There are obvious All-Star candidates. Mike Trout? Good bet. Aaron Judge? Yeah, you’ll see him there. Mookie Betts? It would be downright weird if he didn’t get selected!  But there are other candidates for whom you can make a solid case. Players that are not the obvious pick from each team. Some of them are toiling

PHOENIX — Rony García won his second straight start for the Tigers on Friday, pitching 5 1/3 innings of three-hit, one-run ball against the D-backs at Chase Field. For the 24-year-old right-hander, being part of a big league rotation is a notable leap in his fortunes, given the obstacles he’s faced in his professional career.

DETROIT — No matter how the rosters shape up for next month’s All-Star Game, the Tigers will be represented by one of their all-time greats at the Midsummer Classic at Dodger Stadium. Willie Horton, a four-time All-Star as a player and a longtime special assistant in the Tigers front office, has accepted an invitation to

Rookie outfielder Riley Greene of the Detroit Tigers earned his first career Play of the Week Award and is Detroit’s first winner since his teammate Daz Cameron in May 2021.  In the bottom of the sixth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field, Greene sprinted to right-center field to lay out and make the

PHOENIX — One day after Riley Greene went flying into right-center field for a highlight catch, he went diving into left-center for another. This one, he had a better idea of how he could track it down, even if he had to slide along the Chase Field turf on his stomach in the process. “That

PHOENIX — What’s bigger, a go-ahead home run or a game-saving catch? Kody Clemens’ first Major League home run was a go-ahead drive in a lefty-lefty showdown against a reliever who rarely gives up homers and had never given up one to a lefty. And that arguably wasn’t the biggest highlight by a Tigers rookie

PHOENIX — This is more like the Javier Báez the Tigers believed they were getting. And Báez is letting people know about it, at least people trying to heckle him. “Javy doesn’t need a lot of motivation,” manager A.J. Hinch said, “but he had a little extra for some reason. Javy loves the moment, and

It can take years to truly evaluate how successful a team’s Draft class was. So consider this look at the best Draft pick for each team in 2017 as more of a mid-semester progress update than a full-on report card. Even success stories are still in the process of fully establishing themselves. To date, the

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox Dillon Dingler takes a detour on his way to UPMC Park each Sunday morning. It’s part of his routine. “He’s the donut guy,” Double-A Erie manager Gabe Alvarez said.

BOSTON — Javier Báez hit his first home run as a member of the Tigers on April 11 against the Red Sox. At the time, he was batting .333 with a .908 OPS through the first four games of the 2022 season. Two months later, when Detroit opened another series against Boston, Báez’s average was

Friday night’s game between the Tigers and D-backs — a matchup featuring Detroit’s top prospect, Riley Greene, and Arizona first baseman Christian Walker, who is tied for second in the NL with 18 homers — will air exclusively on Apple TV+. It will not be available on your local cable provider or MLB.TV. First pitch

BOSTON — In a week of firsts for MLB Pipeline’s No. 2 overall prospect, Riley Greene was faced with one of the more fabled ones for any Major Leaguer: Making his Fenway Park debut. After getting called up from Triple-A Toledo on Friday, the 21-year-old outfielder made the trip to Boston to play in his

Kyle Farnsworth was always an intimidating presence. Standing 6-foot-5 and 240 pounds and armed with a high-90s fastball, the reliever was always willing to throw down with any opponent over any slight. “It’s one thing to wonder if a pitcher is crazy, or more accurately, brave enough to go after you,” Bobby Cox, one of

BOSTON — Alex Faedo fared well through his first seven starts after joining the Tigers’ rotation on May 4. The right-hander had a 2.92 ERA with 28 strikeouts in 37 innings, a welcome addition to a rotation dealing with the injury bug.  Faedo’s ERA ballooned to 4.28 after he gave up seven runs in a

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The sounds of baseball brought new life to an old ballfield Monday afternoon. Dugouts cheered each hit and jeered each opposing pitcher. Mitts popped with each fastball. Foul balls clanked off the metal roof over the grandstand. This is how Hamtramck Stadium sounded in the 1930s, when the Negro Leagues’ Detroit Stars

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Somewhere on Vaughn Grissom’s phone is a video of Riley Greene doing one of his more athletic feats. It was on the court, not the diamond.  Before Greene and