Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 3:02 PM EDT Sep 7, 2020 Minneapolis – Defensive indifference. When is it OK for the defense to be indifferent in baseball? The Tigers played a situation absolutely by the book in the ninth inning on Saturday, and yet it made for a fun debate. “All day long,” shortstop
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Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire missed his second consecutive game Monday as he deals with continued symptoms related to gastrointestinal issues. Bench coach Lloyd McClendon stepped in again, and he sounded optimistic about Gardenhire’s health after they talked earlier Monday. “Gardy’s feeling a lot better,” McClendon said Monday morning. “We spoke Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire missed
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 2:43 PM EDT Sep 7, 2020 Minneapolis – Tigers bench coach Lloyd McClendon was there from the start with Victor Reyes. He remembers looking at this shy, skinny kid the Tigers took in the Rule 5 draft back in 2018 and shaking his head. The bat he was holding looked thicker
Another week, another slew of exciting big league callups for top prospects. From MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects list alone, we saw the Pirates’ Ke’Bryan Hayes, Miami’s Jazz Chisholm, and the Yankees’ Deivi García and Clarke Schmidt make their Major League debuts. They join an ever-growing rookie class in 2020 Another week, another slew of
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:33 AM EDT Sep 7, 2020 Detroit Tigers right-hander Kyle Funkhouser wouldn’t say what his teammates did to him, third baseman Sergio Alcantara and righty Bryan Garcia. All three achieved career firsts Sunday — Funkhouser got his first win; Alcantara launched his first homer; Garcia notched his first save. “They took care
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 4:37 AM EDT Sep 7, 2020 Minneapolis — The Tigers may have to give the visiting clubhouse attendants a little extra in the tip jar when they leave here on Tuesday. They made a bit of a mess in the shower area Sunday. “They put me in a cart, a
Hillel Italie Published 9:51 PM EDT Sep 6, 2020 New York — Hall of Famer Lou Brock, one of baseball’s signature leadoff hitters and base stealers who helped the St. Louis Cardinals win three pennants and two World Series titles in the 1960s, has died. He was 81. Dick Zitzmann, Brock’s longtime agent and friend,
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 8:05 PM EDT Sep 6, 2020 Minneapolis — Their fight level is off the charts with this team. The Tigers, trying to snap a four-game losing skid, trailed the Twins 6-2 and 7-5 Sunday but wouldn’t stop hitting the baseball. And when Grayson Greiner’s fly ball off reliever Sergio
Miguel Sano is not a fan of Joe Jimenez The Minnesota Twins’ “Bomba Squad” is starting to heat back up now that the season is drawing to a close, as Miguel Sano walloped a home run off of Detroit Tigers reliever Joe Jimenez as the Twins won their fifth-straight game against their division rivals by
Sergio Alcántara hit nine home runs in 2,611 Minor League plate appearances. He needed just two pitches Sunday for his first Major League homer. His Tigers teammate, Grayson Greiner, has four hits since Aug. 19. Three of them are home runs, including a go-ahead loft just out of Eddie Rosario’s Sergio Alcántara hit nine home
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 7:33 PM EDT Sep 6, 2020 Detroit Tigers catcher Grayson Greiner had five hits in 40 at-bats this season entering his eighth-inning duel with Minnesota Twins reliever Sergio Romo. He worked a six-pitch battle, ending in a slider launched 355 feet in the air. It was just enough to clear
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 4:51 PM EDT Sep 6, 2020 The feud goes back to Aug. 31, 2019. The Detroit Tigers had a 10-7 lead against the Minnesota Twins in the bottom of the ninth inning. There was a runner on second base with two outs for right-hander Joe Jimenez against slugger Miguel Sano. Jimenez pumped
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 3:16 PM EDT Sep 6, 2020 Through 2,611 minor-league at-bats across seven seasons, Detroit Tigers infielder Sergio Alcantara hit nine home runs. In his first MLB at-bat Sunday, Alcantara ripped an 86.7 mph fastball from Minnesota Twins starter Rich Hill for a third-inning solo homer. The baseball went 388 feet over
Tony Paul The Detroit News Published 3:07 PM EDT Sep 6, 2020 The biggest moment of Mario Impemba’s broadcasting career could’ve happened when he was just a major-league rookie, on Sept. 6, 1995. But it didn’t. Because he didn’t think he deserved it. On the night Cal Ripken played his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou
Joe Jiménez has faced Miguel Sanó five times in the Major Leagues since 2017. After their latest meeting Saturday night, their future matchups are going to get a lot of attention. Sanó said he took extra time celebrating his seventh-inning home run off Jiménez because Jiménez said something to him Joe Jiménez has faced Miguel
Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 1:32 PM EDT Sep 6, 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: Dillon Dingler. Bill Freehan was
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 1:31 PM EDT Sep 6, 2020 Detroit Tigers shortstop Willi Castro fielded a weak two-out grounder from speedy Minnesota Twins outfielder Byron Buxton with runners on second and third in the bottom of the ninth inning. But Castro wasn’t able to relay the throw to first baseman Jeimer Candelario in time
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 1:45 PM EDT Sep 6, 2020 Minneapolis – Joe Jimenez wasn’t going to let this go without setting the record straight. It wasn’t so much that Miguel Sano made a spectacle of his home run celebration in the seventh inning Saturday night. He drove one of Jimenez’s hanging sliders
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:01 AM EDT Sep 6, 2020 Detroit Tigers right-hander Casey Mize isn’t afraid of high-intensity situations on the mound. Throughout his Auburn career, he pitched in SEC tournaments, NCAA tournaments and became the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 MLB draft. In the minor leagues, he was expected dominate in
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EDT Sep 6, 2020 A pair of Detroit Tigers rookie pitchers grinned between the sixth and seventh innings. Bench coach Lloyd McClendon, filling the role of manager after Ron Gardenhire left with a stomach virus, finally began his descent from goosebumps and sweaty palms. Right-hander Casey Mize knew it.