Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 2:46 PM EDT Aug 17, 2020 Chicago — We’ve been waiting a couple of years to say this and you’ve been waiting longer to hear it: The future is now for the Detroit Tigers. General manager Al Avila made the landmark announcement Monday from a hotel room in Chicago that
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The future is here in Detroit. The Tigers announced this morning that the organization will promote top prospects Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal and Isaac Paredes this week. The left-handed Skubal is slated to start Tuesday’s game, while the right-handed Mize will take the ball Wednesday. Paredes will take the spot of fellow infielder Dawel Lugo,
Tony Paul The Detroit News Published 1:58 PM EDT Aug 17, 2020 Detroit — The Tigers are calling up the kids. Left-handed pitching prospect Tarik Skubal will make his major-league debut, starting for the Tigers on Tuesday, followed by former No. 1 draft pick Casey Mize starting Wednesday. The Tigers open a series in Chicago against
Chris Thomas Detroit Free Press Published 1:04 PM EDT Aug 17, 2020 Get ready Detroit Tigers fans: The prospects are here. Well, the first wave, anyway. The Tigers on Monday called up three of their top-six prospects for their major league debuts this week. Isaac Paredes, the No. 6 player in the organization, will start at third
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 10:46 AM EDT Aug 17, 2020 Mary and Bubba Jones found the perfect spot on the fourth level of a parking garage adjacent to Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. They’ve tailgated more times than you could imagine, but this was different. Make no mistake, they still had lawn
John Niyo The Detroit News Published 11:07 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 When it rains, it pours. And the way the Tigers’ starting pitchers have been hitting the showers during games this season – early and often – it was only a matter of time before the levity broke. Sunday, it was Michael Fulmer who
Carlos Monarrez Detroit Free Press Published 9:05 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 In a moment of cathartic clarity — and perhaps confession — Michael Fulmer let loose Sunday after he felt he let his Detroit Tigers down in an 8-5 loss to the Cleveland Indians that sewed up a series sweep. Fulmer is part of a starting
DETROIT — For a brief moment Sunday afternoon, the Tigers appeared poised to end the Indians’ winning streak against them. Four third-inning hits off Adam Plutko had erased a three-run deficit, then Jeimer Candelario had seemingly tripled home Miguel Cabrera to give Detroit its first lead since the third inning DETROIT — For a brief
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:13 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit – The Tigers on Sunday had one go-ahead run taken off the board by a questionable ruling by first base umpire Tim Timmons. They had another go-ahead run wiped out by an extremely questionable base-running decision by Miguel Cabrera. Manager Ron Gardenhire
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:28 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit – The only certainty regarding the Tigers’ starting rotation, at least before the game Sunday, was that Matthew Boyd would start Monday in Chicago and Spencer Turnbull would go in the series finale Thursday. In between? Well, stay tuned. Daniel Norris, conceivably,
Carlos Monarrez Detroit Free Press Published 5:17 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 There’s hemlock, arsenic and Kryptonite. Then there’s the Cleveland Indians. For the Detroit Tigers, no poison is more potent. They proved as much when they lost to their AL Central Division rivals, 8-5, on Sunday at Comerica Park and extended their franchise-record losing
Marlowe Alter Detroit Free Press Published 4:39 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit Tigers (9-9) vs. Cleveland Indians (12-9) When: 1:10 p.m. Sunday. Where: Comerica Park. TV: Fox Sports Detroit, ESPN (out-of-market only). Radio: 97.1 FM in Detroit (Tigers radio affiliates). Starting pitchers: Tigers RHP Michael Fulmer (0-0, 6.35 ERA) vs. Indians RHP Adam Plutko (1-1, 2.45 ERA). • Box score Notes: Tigers have
Carlos Monarrez Detroit Free Press Published 3:53 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire and outfielder Cameron Maybin have been ejected from Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Indians. Gardenhire was ejected for the first time this season, and for the 85th time in his career, in the third inning after he argued
By Anthony Franco | August 16, 2020 at 12:06pm CDT Some pitching notes from around baseball: Rays’ right-hander Charlie Morton came out of a twenty-pitch bullpen session feeling well, reports Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. He’s seemingly on track to return next weekend, Topkin adds. The 36-year-old was placed on the 10-day injured list
Carlos Monarrez Detroit Free Press Published 12:54 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Without trying to, Spencer Turnbull summed up the Detroit Tigers’ 3-1 loss to the Cleveland Indians on Saturday. When the right-hander thought about how much worse the third inning could have been, he took comfort in limiting the damage to two runs after
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 12:23 PM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Detroit – It must be on every team’s scouting report. Be aggressive out of the box on any ball hit to left field against the Tigers. Christin Stewart graded out as the worst-throwing outfielder in the big leagues last year. The Reds, old
DETROIT — Niko Goodrum learned about the Negro Leagues from the stories his father told him growing up in Georgia. Then, once he broke into the Major Leagues with the Tigers, he visited the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City and saw the history he had learned about. “The DETROIT — Niko Goodrum learned
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Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 11:24 AM EDT Aug 16, 2020 The minor-league season has been canceled, but the development of the Tigers’ prospects is still a critical aspect of the team’s rebuild. In this series, Lynn Henning will take a look at some of the key players. Today: Jason Foley. They were words
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:01 AM EDT Aug 16, 2020 Jim Leyland approached Dave Dombrowski in spring training in 2006 with a request. Though based on their relationship, it was more a respectful demand from the Detroit Tigers’ first-year manager. He needed Justin Verlander. “I want to take Verlander and (Joel) Zumaya,” Leyland told