Truly great catchers are so rare that when one emerges, he becomes identified with a generation. For example, Yogi Berra and Roy Campanella were the 1950s. The sideburns that peeked from under Johnny Bench’s mask and those photos or videos of him chasing popups across artificial turf linked him to Truly great catchers are so
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Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 11:30 AM EDT Sep 23, 2020 Detroit Tigers rookie Daz Cameron’s helmet began to bobble as he sprinted around third base. He wishes he would’ve let it fly, but he continued readjusting it until he was one step and a head-first dive away from home plate. That’s when he decided to
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 9:27 AM EDT Sep 23, 2020 Matthew Boyd didn’t give Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal any trouble when the rookie asked to borrow his glove. Skubal got to Minnesota for Tuesday’s start against the Twins at Target Field and realized he left his two gloves behind in Detroit. Although Boyd could’ve
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 12:05 AM EDT Sep 23, 2020 Detroit Tigers closer Bryan Garcia took the ball in the bottom of the 10th with plans of giving his team a victory over the Minnesota Twins. The Twins had other plans. Singles from Eddie Rosario and Max Kepler combined to score two runs off
The Twins opened Tuesday night putting Byron Buxton in a robe to celebrate a leadoff home run. The Tigers ended the night trying on a cape that didn’t fit them. Max Kepler hit a game-tying homer in the eighth inning and a game-winning single in the 10th, sending Detroit to The Twins opened Tuesday night
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
Brandon Dixon walked into Target Field on Tuesday afternoon thinking he was going to hang around as part of the Tigers’ taxi squad, having spent the entire season at the alternate training site in Toledo, Ohio. Then interim manager Lloyd McClendon and general manager Al Avila called the utility player Brandon Dixon walked into Target
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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
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 5:39 PM EDT Sep 22, 2020 Brandon Dixon expected to be a member of the Detroit Tigers’ traveling taxi squad when he arrived at Target Field on Tuesday for a two-game series with the Minnesota Twins. As he walked into the clubhouse, general manager Al Avila pulled him into interim manager
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
The Tigers have selected the contract of utiltyman Brandon Dixon from their alternate training site, the team announced. There was already an open spot on Detroit’s active roster since infielder Sergio Alcantara was previously optioned to the alternate site, and a 40-man roster spot was opened for Dixon since second baseman Jonathan Schoop has been
The wide-open National League playoff race could bring the Cardinals and Tigers back to Comerica Park next Monday to make up their postponed games from last month. But those games would only be played to determine if a team gets into the playoffs, or if the Cardinals could become the The wide-open National League playoff
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EDT Sep 22, 2020 The mood inside the Detroit Tigers’ clubhouse at Comerica Park on Sunday was diagnosed as somber by interim manager Lloyd McClendon. Ron Gardenhire, newly retired, wasn’t there. “Gardy is such a lovable guy,” McClendon said of the former Tigers skipper. “He had a special
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
By Connor Byrne | September 21, 2020 at 9:29pm CDT The Tigers suddenly have a managerial opening now that Ron Gardenhire decided to retire Saturday after almost three full seasons on the job. Gardenhire oversaw teams that were in full rebuilding mode, evidenced in part by the 132-241 record the Tigers compiled under him, but
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
The transaction reads like an offseason footnote: On Nov. 12, 1986, the Mets traded Minor League infielder Ron Gardenhire to the Twins for a player to be named later. Terry Ryan joined the Twins earlier that year as their scouting director after working in the Mets’ scouting department, where he had gotten to know Gardenhire,
Major League Baseball was supposed to make history this year with its first regular-season series in Mexico City, at the new, elegant Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium. COVID-19 changed those plans. Still, there is encouraging news to report: MLB hopes to reschedule a series in the Diablos Rojos’ state-of-the-art ballpark over the next several years, as