CLEVELAND — Andrew Chafin struck out the side in order in the eighth inning on Wednesday night, an incredible task against a Guardians offense that has the lowest strikeout rate in the Majors. Then the ball skipped past catcher Eric Haase and rolled to the backstop, sending Luke Maile to first base, and Chafin’s task
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Cleveland — How do you strike out the side, actually strike out four batters in the inning, and still end up allowing six runs to score? Welcome to Tigers baseball, 2022. “It’s not a nice game,” said Tigers reliever Andrew Chafin, who was in the middle of the ruckus in a most bizarre bottom of the eighth
CLEVELAND — Detroit Tigers left-handed reliever Andrew Chafin screamed at catcher Eric Haase with two outs in the eighth inning. “The ball,” Chafin yelled. “Go get it.” Haase flipped up his face mask and scanned the dirt around home plate. He didn’t know where the ball went until Chafin pointed to the backstop — the two-strike
CLEVELAND — The Detroit Tigers already knew left-hander Tarik Skubal would not pitch for the remainder of the 2022 season, but Wednesday’s events off the field delivered another massive blow to the organization’s rebuild. Skubal underwent flexor tendon surgery Wednesday morning. The timetable for his return is unclear, according to the club, but the typical recovery time is nine
CLEVELAND — The injury bug that has decimated the Tigers’ pitching staff has now struck the most important arm in their present and future. Left-hander Tarik Skubal, who rose from ninth-round Draft pick to front-line starter amidst a breakout season, underwent successful surgery on the flexor tendon in his left elbow. Dr. Neal ElAttrache performed
Cleveland — Tigers manager AJ Hinch announced that left-handed starting pitcher Tarik Skubal had flexor tendon surgery Wednesday in Los Angeles. The surgery was performed by specialist Dr. Neal ElAttrache. “The procedure was exploratory in nature and they saw exactly what was ailing Tarik,” Hinch said. “This opens up questions on the timeline, but I have
CLEVELAND — Detroit Tigers left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez will be removed from the restricted list Friday anstart Sunday — his first MLB start since May 18 — against the Los Angeles Angels in a matchup with right-handed sensation Shohei Ohtani at Comerica Park. Rodriguez, 29, has been on the restricted list since June 13 because of a marital issue.
Cleveland — Cleveland Guardians catcher Austin Hedges probably spoke for every catcher in baseball, even Tigers catchers Tucker Barnhart and Eric Haase, when he emotionally decried how Major League Baseball is deploying the collision rule at home plate. “It’s a play that’s been called a few times now recently that really has never been called before,”
It was so interesting. If not revealing. On the day Detroit Tigers owner Christopher Ilitch announced he had fired general manager Al Avila, Ilitch made an intriguing comment about a player in the Tigers’ minor league system. “There has been continued progress in very important ways that will help us to find impact players for our
CLEVELAND — Kerry Carpenter can remember the game where his revamped swing locked in after a slow opening month. It was a road game against the Guardians’ Double-A affiliate. “The last day of our series in Akron in May,” Carpenter recalled a couple of months ago. “That was the day where I told one of
Cleveland — The baseball hasn’t much bounced the Tigers’ way this season. But it did Tuesday in their 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Guardians. The Tigers won a pivotal challenge in the first inning that led to a three-run head start at Progressive Field and they prevailed on a controversial umpire’s call in the bottom of the ninth to
CLEVELAND — An overturned call in the first inning, thanks to a wise challenge from manager A.J. Hinch, changed the outcome of Tuesday’s game between the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians. The skipper’s knowledge of the rulebook was tested on a crucial play at the plate. Umpire Lance Barksdale determined Javier Báez was tagged out by Guardians catcher
CLEVELAND — An overturned call in the first inning, thanks to a wise challenge from manager A.J. Hinch, changed the outcome of Tuesday’s game between the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians. Hinch’s knowledge of the rulebook was tested on a crucial play at the plate. Home plate umpire Lance Barksdale determined Javier Báez was tagged out by
The Tigers have moved out of the days when Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson topped their prospect rankings, just as they graduated Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal and Matt Manning from prospect status a year before. Now comes the test of what Detroit’s investment in player development can do with the next level of talent. It’s
Cleveland — Andrew Chafin’s postgame reaction to yielding a go-ahead, three-run home run to Cleveland’s Andres Gimenez in the first game of the doubleheader Monday was, well, it was classic Chafin. “It was middle-middle,” he said. “He should’ve hit it 300 feet farther.” Actually, he was told, Statcast showed the pitch middle, but about a half
CLEVELAND — Detroit Tigers right-hander Beau Brieske doesn’t know when he’s going to restart his throwing program. For now, the 24-year-old is waiting. “It’s frustrating,” Brieske said. “I was so close to making my way back. My last rehab start felt really good. I felt sharp and ready. But I had a setback in the
Ask around the league. Check with executives, scouts and agents. Jason McLeod has been mentioned several times. The Detroit Tigers have just begun their search for a new general manager, after Al Avila was fired last Wednesday in his seventh season at the helm. Owner Christopher Ilitch wants to hire a forward-thinking leader, and McLeod — lauded for his leadership,
CLEVELAND — The buzz hadn’t stopped in the Progressive Field crowd from Jonathan Schoop’s go-ahead home run, the consternation still simmering over Mustard’s latest loss in the Hot Dog Derby, when Kerry Carpenter jumped a first-pitch fastball from Eli Morgan in the sixth inning. He sent it to nearly the same spot as his double
Cleveland — For different reasons, they both badly needed to see balls fly into the seats. Veteran Jonathan Schoop, mired in a season-long hitting slump, and rookie Kerry Carpenter, who was leading the minor leagues with 30 homers when he got called up and hadn’t sniffed one in the big leagues, hit homers on back-to-back
CLEVELAND — For the second time in 2022, the Detroit Tigers hammered back-to-back home runs, and after losing the past eight games (and 27 of 34 games since July 9), the Tigers finished in the win column. “We needed a win in the worst way,” manager A.J. Hinch said. Homers from Jonathan Schoop and rookie Kerry