Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 1:48 PM EDT Aug 19, 2020 Chicago – Nine days ago the Tigers were 9-5 and, in a season shortened to 60 games with expanded playoffs, the possibility of a postseason berth seemed optimistic but legitimate. Man how things have changed. A season-ending knee injury to clean-up hitter and first
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Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 9:56 AM EDT Aug 19, 2020 Chicago — Casey Mize was getting just as antsy as the multitude of Tigers’ fans who posted “Free Mize” hashtags on Twitter the last few months. As patient as he’s been since the Tigers took him first overall in the 2018 draft, as
Jeff Seidel Detroit Free Press Published 8:28 AM EDT Aug 19, 2020 Detroit Tigers pitching coach Rick Anderson put his arm around Tarik Skubal in the dugout Tuesday night after the 23-year-old rookie struggled in his major league debut. It looked like a father talking to a son who fell off his bike and skinned
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EDT Aug 19, 2020 Jim Leyland went to visit Detroit Tigers right-hander Casey Mize on Friday, just five days before his MLB debut. At the time, he had no idea when the No. 1 overall pick from the 2018 draft would get his call to the big
Ted Kulfan The Detroit News Published 5:36 AM EDT Aug 19, 2020 TOP OF NINTH Aside from a Niko Goodrum single, the Tigers end the game quietly. The White Sox ruin Tarik Skubal’s debut with a 10-4 victory. Casey Mize makes his Tigers’ debut tomorrow. BOTTOM OF EIGHTH Gregory Soto has been a dependable reliever
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 12:38 AM EDT Aug 19, 2020 Chicago — Debuts can’t all have fairy tale endings. Most of them don’t, actually. But they aren’t often career-defining either. Left-hander Tarik Skubal, who has two years of pro ball experience and none above Double-A, endured a rude big-league baptism in the
Tarik Skubal’s Major League debut lasted two innings. His lesson lasted well longer than that. As Daniel Norris finished his first inning of relief, Skubal was still in the Tigers’ dugout. Pitching coach Rick Anderson was at his side, doing all the talking. It was reminiscent of the long talk Tarik Skubal’s Major League debut
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 11:41 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Another day, another MLB debut for a Detroit Tigers prospect. After third baseman Isaac Paredes succeeded in his first big-league appearance Monday with two RBIs — the second of three call-ups — left-hander Tarik Skubal, made his first outing Tuesday in a 10-4 loss to
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 11:14 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Tigers general manager Al Avila tried to temper expectations when he introduced the three newest rookies on the team’s MLB roster — right-handed pitcher Casey Mize, lefty Tarik Skubal and third baseman Isaac Paredes. “Remember that there’s guys in that past that we brought
Ted Kulfan The Detroit News Published 9:56 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 TOP OF SIXTH What looked like a promising inning for the Tigers ended with sudden disappointment. With one out, Jonathan Schoop singled and Christin Stewart got aboard on catcher’s interference, putting two Tigers aboard. But Jeimer Candelario lined to Jose Abreau at first
Tyler J. Davis Detroit Free Press Published 9:33 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Detroit Tigers (9-11) vs. Chicago White Sox (12-11) When: 8:10 p.m. Where: Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago TV: Fox Sports Detroit Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1; other Tigers radio affiliates) First-pitch weather forecast: Clear, 71 degrees Probable starting pitchers: Tigers LHP Tarik Skubal (MLB debut) vs.
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 8:22 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Chicago — Casey Mize was getting just as antsy as the multitude of Tigers’ fans who posted “Free Mize” hashtags on Twitter the last few months. As patient as he’s been since the Tigers took him first overall in the 2018 draft, as
The last time Casey Mize had watched a Major League game from the stands, he was at Comerica Park with his future wife and family, having just signed his contract after becoming the first overall pick in the 2018 Draft. He was a celebrity in the crowd, and there was The last time Casey Mize
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 1:06 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Chicago — Matthew Boyd sat in front of the Zoom camera Monday night, preparing to take questions from the media a few hours after he’d departed the Tigers’ 7-2 loss to the White Sox. He had time to process his rather manic four innings
Jeff Seidel Detroit Free Press Published 12:33 PM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Now, this is an introduction. This is what you want to hear about a pitcher — any pitcher — before he makes his major league debut. “The reports I’ve heard from (Jim) Leyland and (Alan) Trammell is, he’s throwing the living fire out
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 10:04 AM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Detroit Tigers third baseman Isaac Paredes didn’t know how to find the team’s charter airplane. He arrived too early Sunday, stumbled upon someone that could speak Spanish and was told he had to wait. Unsure of what to do next, he decided to
Kirkland Crawford Detroit Free Press Published 7:57 AM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Detroit Tigers (9-10) vs. Chicago White Sox (11-11) When: 8:10 p.m. Monday. Where: Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago. TV: Fox Sports Detroit. Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1; other radio affiliates) First-pitch weather forecast: Partly cloudy, 75 degrees. Probable starting pitchers: Tigers LHP Matthew Boyd (0-2, 10.24
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:02 AM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Tanking would’ve been easy. One of the worst baseball teams in the past three seasons, the Detroit Tigers simply could have kept the status quo in a 60-game season — searching for another top-five draft pick to bolster the organization’s future, as they have done three times
Jeff Seidel Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Now, this is an introduction. This is what you want to hear about a pitcher — any pitcher — before he makes his major league debut. “The reports I’ve heard from (Jim) Leyland and (Alan) Trammell is, he’s throwing the living fire out
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 1:14 AM EDT Aug 18, 2020 Chicago — The thing about being on the taxi squad, you face the same players day after day in intrasquad games and live batting practices. It gets monotonous. So Tigers lefty Tarik Skubal has had his fill of trying to get fellow rookie