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Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 7:56 PM EDT Aug 31, 2020 Detroit — Tigers general manager Al Avila didn’t mess around with peripheral scouting reports when he was doing his homework on San Francisco Giants right-hander Dereck Rodriguez. He went straight to the source. “I called Pudge today and he gave me some good

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 5:04 PM EDT Aug 31, 2020 Detroit – Cameron Maybin’s third stint with the Tigers ends just like his first two – by being traded away. The Tigers traded Maybin, 33, to the Cubs, just ahead of the 4 p.m. Monday trade deadline, for minor-league utility infielder Zack Short, 25.

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 2:44 PM EDT Aug 31, 2020 Detroit – Manager Ron Gardenhire isn’t trying to spit in anybody’s snow cone. He’s enjoying this run as much as much as anyone. Carpe Diem, and all that. But four decades of professional baseball conditions a person not to live too high in

Bob Wojnowski The Detroit News Published 11:00 PM EDT Aug 30, 2020 Detroit — Call it whatever you wish. An asterisk season, a wasted season, a COVID calamity. Call the Tigers whatever you wish. A scrappy team on a fun little streak, a rebuilding team biding its time, a hodge-podge one or two years from

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 8:21 PM EDT Aug 30, 2020 Detroit — Here is a little window into the kind of guy Gregory Soto is. It also illustrates the bond that has formed among the pitchers in the Tigers’ bullpen. On Sunday, the morning after he earned his first major-league save, he was

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:06 PM EDT Aug 30, 2020 Detroit — Tyler Alexander didn’t even blink. Asked if the Tigers were starting to feel like they had a shot to make a run at a playoff spot, he said, “We’ve known it the whole time.” It’s hard to believe this is the

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 4:05 PM EDT Aug 30, 2020 Detroit — Hard to believe this is the same team that just 10 days ago limped into Cleveland dragging a nine-game losing streak. After sweeping the Twins out of Comerica Park with a 3-2 win Sunday, the Tigers have won five straight, taken

Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 1:37 PM EDT Aug 30, 2020 Benchmarks are how Franklin Perez measures his baseball life in 2020. By the day. By the week. By the month. And by the year, this year especially, weird and disorienting as it has been. Another reference point for a 22-year-old, right-handed starter who

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:46 AM EDT Aug 30, 2020 Detroit — You knew Matthew Boyd was back in form when he dispatched the Twins on 10 pitches in the first inning, despite a lead-off single by Jorge Polanco. He was spotting his four-seam and two-seam fastball and mixing both his change-up and

Associated Press Published 1:18 AM EDT Aug 30, 2020 Denver — The San Diego Padres acquired Trevor Rosenthal in a trade with the Kansas City Royals on Saturday, bolstering their bullpen for the pursuit of their first playoff appearance in 14 years. San Diego thought its bullpen would be one of its biggest strengths this

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:54 PM EDT Aug 29, 2020 Detroit — After beating the Twins in Game 1 Saturday, Matthew Boyd had some appointment viewing planned for the rest of his afternoon. “They got the old F-150 in the first game,” Boyd said. “Now they’re getting the Ferrari.” The Ferrari, rookie Tarik

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 12:30 PM EDT Aug 29, 2020 Detroit – Al Avila was asked on Thursday if this series against the Central Division-leading Twins could impact the Tigers’ plan at the trade deadline. Meaning, if they swept the Twins, would he be more inclined to buy and if they got swept,

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 12:33 PM EDT Aug 29, 2020 Detroit – Potentially, this is the final month of Ron Gardenhire’s tenure as Tigers’ manager. His three-year contract is up at the end of this season. Not only has the pandemic cheated him out of 102 games, it’s also made this one of

David Brandt Associated Press Published 10:41 PM EDT Aug 28, 2020 Phoenix — Andrew McCutchen has relished these past few days in the Philadelphia Phillies clubhouse, having difficult, important conversations with baseball teammates about racial injustice. As a Black man in a sport that’s filled with mostly white and Hispanic players, he doesn’t feel it’s

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 2:52 PM EDT Aug 28, 2020 Detroit – The scheduled doubleheader between the Tigers and Twins at Comerica Park Friday was postponed by persistent rains in the area. The teams will play two seven-inning games Saturday, beginning at 1:10 p.m., and a nine-inning game Sunday (1:10 p.m.). The fourth

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 12:39 PM EDT Aug 28, 2020 Detroit – Has Jackie Robinson Day and what it represents ever come at a more poignant time, the day after Major League Baseball games were postponed – including the Tigers-Twins game – in protest of the persistent social injustice in America? “Yesterday was something we

Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 5:34 AM EDT Aug 28, 2020 Detroit – It got lost in the shuffle a little bit Wednesday night, but Tigers right-hander Jose Cisnero and Cubs’ star Javier Baez had themselves a righteous confrontation with the game on the line in the seventh inning. The Tigers had just rallied

David Brandt Associated Press Published 5:27 AM EDT Aug 28, 2020 In a typically awkward way, Major League Baseball has been pulled into America’s discussion about racial injustice. Some teams are playing. Some aren’t. Some have played with individual players sitting out. But across the sport, one theme became clear: Baseball shouldn’t avoid potentially difficult

Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 11:00 PM EDT Aug 27, 2020 In this series, The Detroit News looks back at events and people from past sports moments, enlarging on experiences that might have been forgotten with time, or revisiting behind-the-scenes drama that never made it into print or on airwaves. They had become acquainted,

Tony Paul The Detroit News Published 9:16 PM EDT Aug 27, 2020 Detroit — Cameron Maybin spoke, as did a few others. And, more importantly, everyone listened. And when the emotional, half-hour team meeting was over, the Tigers overwhelmingly concluded that it just didn’t feel right to play baseball Thursday night. In a team vote, the