It’s still early in the 2021 season, but some of the numbers we’re seeing are definitely real. MLB.com’s beat reporters sat down to figure out which ones to trust. For all 30 clubs, these are the stat lines that are a real indicator of what’s to come over the course of the year. Here’s one
When Dan Hasty woke up Sunday morning, he expected to spend the day with his eight-month-old daughter, Josie. His wife, Angelina, was treating COVID-19 patients in the emergency room at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in downtown Grand Rapids. Hasty planned an early morning workout before watching VeggieTales, a Christian television series for children, with his daughter for
Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a weekly series of stories in which Detroit News freelance writer Lynn Henning will rank the top prospects in July’s MLB Draft. April began heading toward May and it looked as if three shortstops, nationally, all of them high school stars, would force the Tigers and various big-league brethren
Detroit — Back in a previous life, before the internet, before Statcast, before electricity (it feels like), I covered the Doug Collins era of Pistons basketball. Watching the Tigers’ woebegone offense over the weekend and trying to come up with different ways to ask manager AJ Hinch about it brought this memory back. I used
The Tigers are going to move Tarik Skubal into a scheduled piggyback role for his next couple of outings, per Chris McCosky of the Detroit News. The Tigers could do the same with Casey Mize at some point during this season. Manager A.J. Hinch views the piggyback option as a way to avoid shutting down
We knew the Detroit Tigers would come back to Earth after a, well, Astro-nomical three-game sweep of Houston. (Of course, we didn’t know they were going to sweep in the first place, because if we had, we would probably not be allowed inside any of the sportsbooks in downtown Detroit anymore.) But a brutal four-game
The Third Half: Tigers pitcher Alex Lange drops by to discuss his recent MLB debut with Brooke Fletcher on The Third Half.
This weekend, the Detroit Tigers were swept by the Oakland A’s and in the four-game series, there were a few key takeaways from the series that stood out. The obvious ones were the offense and two good starts from Matthew Boyd and Jose Urena.
Tie game. Bottom of the ninth. Jose Cisneros on the mound for the Detroit Tigers. Matt Olson at the plate for the Oakland Athletics. Cisneros threw a 97 mph sinker and Olson lifted a high pop up towards center — and it soared right into the sunshine. Tigers shortstop Willi Castro couldn’t get to it,
We hear from Harold Castro, who had three hits Sunday, including a two-run single in the sixth that snaps Detroit’s 23-inning scoreless streak. #DetroitRoots
We hear from Tigers starter after Matthew Boyd after he gives up four hits and two runs in 7 1/3 innings Sunday. #DetroitRoots
Detroit – When the dust settled, Oakland Athletics starter Chris Bassitt struck out eight Tigers hitters and got 17 swings and misses in six strong, dominant innings, helping his team complete a four-game sweep over the Tigers, 3-2 Sunday. The only Tiger hitter who pestered him was Harold Castro, who got two hits off him
After his Tigers lose to the A’s 3-2 on Sunday, manager A.J. Hinch says, “Everything that kind of could go wrong did go wrong in this four-game series.” #Leinenkugels
Detroit – Matthew Boyd didn’t want to use the term snake-bit to describe what happened in Oakland on Sunday – that would be too convenient, too much like an excuse. “It’s just how it happened,” he said. “I wouldn’t say it was luck. We were just on the wrong side of opportunities.” The Tigers ended up
Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press No matter how chilly it might get around here in the middle of this week, the Detroit Tigers will be thrilled to be 2,387 miles from Oakland. They started the week with a three-game sweep of manager AJ Hinch’s former club in Houston. That became a distant memory
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Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press The sun got in Victor Reyes’ eyes and plunged the Detroit Tigers into darkness. Mitch Moreland hit a walk-off single with two out in the ninth as the Oakland A’s completed a four-game series sweep with a 3-2 win on Sunday. Matt Olson reached with one out against Gregory
A sweep for a sweep, apparently. After sweeping the first leg of their trip through the American League West, the Tigers were on the opposite end of a sweep against the Oakland Athletics. In the final game of their series in Oakland, Matthew Boyd and Chris Bassitt delivered an excellent pitcher’s duel that put runs
For one inning, Matthew Boyd — who led the American League in home runs allowed in 2019 and 2020 — was the stingiest pitcher of 2021 in keeping the ball in the park. When he sent a fastball past A’s third baseman Matt Chapman to end the seventh inning on Sunday, he had faced his
TOP 1 DET 0 OAK 0 Result of at-bat Willi Castro lines into a force out, center fielder Ramon Laureano to third baseman Matt Chapman. Robbie Grossman out at 3rd. Jeimer Candelario to 2nd. Willi Castro to 1st. Batter: Willi Castro Pitcher: Chris Bassitt