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Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Kansas City, Mo. — This is how paper thin the difference between winning and losing a baseball game can be, especially on a night your offense is being shut down. The pivotal play in the Kansas City Royals’ 3-2 victory over the Tigers at Kauffman Stadium Friday night was an uncontested

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Kansas City, Mo. – The Tigers didn’t exactly get started on time in this one. It wasn’t until they were in a 3-0 hole in the seventh inning that they became engaged. But, too little too late. The Royals held on for a 3-2 win Friday night at Kauffman

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Kansas City, Mo. – What do we make of Jeimer Candelario’s season? Obviously, for him and for the Tigers’ evaluators, there wasn’t enough of it. Candelario went on the injured list Friday, effectively ending his season, with back stiffness. “We took an MRI today and he has a back

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Walt Owens, a three-sport standout at Detroit Northwestern who went on to play baseball for the Detroit Stars of the Negro American League, and later coached a young Willie Horton and taught The Supremes’ Mary Wilson in high school, died Sunday. “Coach O” was 87, and living in DeKalb,

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Kansas City, Mo. – Lloyd McClendon looked into the Zoom camera with a knowing grin on his face. “This guy is good,” he said. “Just when you count him out he bounces back.” Miguel Cabrera, who on Aug. 22 was hitting .176 and had a stretch of 73 plate

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Kansas City, Mo. – Niko Goodrum is in quicksand. Not literally, of course. But he has dug himself such a rut at the plate that the harder he tries to spin out of it, the deeper he seems to sink – as if he was in quicksand. “When you

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Kansas City, Mo. – Lloyd McClendon looked into the Zoom camera with a knowing grin on his face. “This guy is good,” he said. “Just when you count him out he bounces back.” Miguel Cabrera, who on Aug. 22 was hitting .176 and had a stretch of 73 plate

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Kansas City, Mo. – Niko Goodrum is in quicksand. Not literally, of course. But he has dug himself such a rut at the plate that the harder he tries to spin out of it, the deeper he seems to sink – as if he was in quicksand. “When you

Tony Paul | The Detroit News You can count on one hand — a glove-covered and sanitized hand, of course — how many professional sports leagues have gotten through an entire season, or at least something resembling one. Utica’s United Shore Professional Baseball League is one of them. Against all odds — and, let’s be honest,

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Minneapolis – Casey Mize will be better for this. But understanding that and believing that doesn’t make going through this rude big-league baptism any easier. He made his seventh start of the season Wednesday night and it followed a familiar script: He was effective early and then unraveled. The

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Minneapolis – Casey Mize will be better for this. But understanding that and believing that doesn’t make going through this rude big-league baptism any easier. He made his seventh start of the season Wednesday night and it followed a familiar script: He was effective early and then unraveled. The

The Detroit News Published 10:10 PM EDT Sep 23, 2020 Tigers fans and baseball collectors will have the chance to buy memorabilia from the sport’s last 30-game winner next month. Items from former Tigers pitcher Denny McLain’s collection will be available for purchase during an estate sale from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 2-4 at his Wixom

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 7:08 PM EDT Sep 23, 2020 Minneapolis — Daz Cameron’s first thought, after he smoked a pitch from Cody Stashak in the fifth inning Tuesday (the ball left his bat with an exit velocity of 104 mph), was that he hit it to the wrong part of Target Field. The

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 12:17 PM EDT Sep 23, 2020 Minneapolis – Yes, he’s 61 years old. Yes, he’s been in professional baseball since 1980 and his three most impacting mentors in the game were Jim Leyland, Gene Lamont and Ron Gardenhire. But if you try to peg Lloyd McClendon as a dyed-in-the-wool old-schooler

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 1:06 AM EDT Sep 23, 2020 Minneapolis – Good ballgame here Tuesday night at Target Field. Fun, tightly-managed, hotly-contested – if you didn’t have access to the standings, you’d have thought both teams were battling for a playoff spot.  In the end, the Twins were the ones celebrating a

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:07 PM EDT Sep 22, 2020 Minneapolis — If you don’t think this game can be rough on a player’s psyche, consider Brandon Dixon. He led the Tigers in home runs last season with 15. He played in 117 games, hit .248 in 420 plate appearances. He played every position on

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:59 PM EDT Sep 22, 2020 Minneapolis — Count Tigers’ pitching coach Rick Anderson among those who cannot wait for the calendar to flip to January, 2021. In the span of a couple of months he has dealt with the death of his mother and, over the weekend, the sudden

Beth LeBlanc The Detroit News Published 5:29 PM EDT Sep 22, 2020 Michigan crept closer Tuesday to repealing the state’s ban on ticket scalping as a six-year effort to reform the law gained steam. State House lawmakers passed legislation Tuesday that would repeal a Michigan ban on ticket scalping while preventing software or practices that interfere

Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 5:11 AM EDT Sep 22, 2020 When news came Saturday that Ron Gardenhire was exiting as Tigers manager — at that hour and not when the season ended a week later — there were fears, all of them grave and warranted. Gardenhire had surgery for prostate cancer in 2017

Robert Snell The Detroit News Updated 11:01 PM EDT Sep 21, 2020 The accused leader of an art and sports memorabilia forgery ring teamed with a hall of fame baseball coach and a Houston Astros draft pick while selling more than $1.1 million worth of phony paintings, bats and balls, including memorabilia linked to New York Yankees legends Babe Ruth