Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 5:57 AM EDT Sep 6, 2020 Minneapolis — Tarik Skubal served notice Saturday night. In his first three starts, he was like a colt taking his first steps — a little wobbly at times, a little unsure. But against the Twins at Target Field, facing this potent lineup for
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The Tigers had dreams of Tarik Skubal shutting down the formidable lineups of the American League Central as he plowed through opponents at Class A Advanced Lakeland and Double-A Erie last summer. They probably didn’t envision him doing it quite this soon. The nightmares the Twins give the Tigers’ bullpen, The Tigers had dreams of
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 10:17 PM EDT Sep 5, 2020 Minneapolis — Tarik Skubal served notice Saturday night. In his first three starts, he was like a colt taking his first steps — a little wobbly at times, a little unsure. But against the Twins at Target Field, facing this potent lineup for
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 10:24 PM EDT Sep 5, 2020 Pitching coach Rick Anderson stood over Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal, who sat on the edge of his seat in the dugout, for a conversation after the sixth inning. When Skubal stood up, he was greeted with first bumps from his teammates. Matthew
The Tigers have placed shortstop Niko Goodrum on the 10-day injured list due to a right oblique strain. The placement is retroactive to September 2. Infielder Sergio Alcantara has been recalled from the Tigers’ alternate training site to take Goodrum’s spot on the active roster. After impressing as a super-utilityman in his first two seasons
Tigers coaches have been touting Willi Castro as Detroit’s shortstop of the future ever since he improved his defense in Spring Training. With Niko Goodrum headed to the injured list with a right oblique strain, the future has arrived. The Tigers placed Goodrum on the 10-day IL retroactive to Wednesday, Tigers coaches have been touting
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 7:18 PM EDT Sep 5, 2020 Minneapolis — Let’s say a situation arises Saturday night where the game is close in the middle innings and due up for the Twins is a run of lefties or switch-hitters — a situation that calls for a left-handed pitcher. What are manager
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:06 PM EDT Sep 5, 2020 Minneapolis — A byproduct of adversity is opportunity. Adversity: The Tigers are going to be without shortstop Niko Goodrum for at least another seven days. They put him on the injured list Saturday, retroactive to Sept. 2, with a right oblique strain. Opportunity:
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Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 4:44 PM EDT Sep 5, 2020 The Detroit Tigers have placed shortstop Niko Goodrum on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Sept. 2, with a right oblique strain, the team announced Saturday. Taking his place on the roster is infielder Sergio Alcantara, who is already on the traveling taxi squad
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 9:00 AM EDT Sep 5, 2020 The Tigers have been down this road before. Too many times, actually, in the last four years. A losing streak typically starts with a bad loss — like their 8-5 defeat with 10 walks and two hit batters Wednesday against the Milwaukee Brewers — before a couple
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EDT Sep 5, 2020 Detroit Tigers left-hander Matthew Boyd walked off the mound Friday at Target Field with a sense of accomplishment. After battling through six rough starts to begin the 60-game season, he has come back with back-to-back quality starts against the Minnesota Twins. Friday’s start featured
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 9:21 PM EDT Sep 4, 2020 Minneapolis — The Twins went out of their way to make Game 2 of the doubleheader Friday feel like a home game for the Tigers — which, technically, it was, even though it was played at Target Field. This was the makeup of
The Twins changed everything from walk-up music to scoreboard graphics to give a feeling of home to the Tigers, who were technically the home team for the second game of their Friday doubleheader. The effects did nothing to dampen the pressure of Detroit’s newfound playoff chase, but it added to The Twins changed everything from
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 8:37 PM EDT Sep 4, 2020 Marwin Gonzalez came to the plate against the Detroit Tigers in the eighth inning, the first round of extra innings, with teammate Willians Astudillo on second base — a new rule for the shortened season. Gonzalez poked a single off reliever Joe Jimenez into shallow
Kirkland Crawford Detroit Free Press Published 7:41 PM EDT Sep 4, 2020 Detroit Tigers (17-18) vs. Minnesota Twins (23-16) Doubleheader, seven innings each When: Game 2, 4:45 p.m.; Tigers are the home team. Where: Target Field, Minneapolis. TV: Fox Sports Detroit. Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1; other radio affiliates). GAME 2 BOX SCORE First-pitch weather forecast: Partly cloudy,
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:15 PM EDT Sep 4, 2020 Minneapolis – When it happens once, you know, no big deal. It happens twice, in successive starts, very strange but not unprecedented. But a third time? In eight starts? What the heck is going on? Matthew Boyd gave up back-to-back home runs to
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 5:50 PM EDT Sep 4, 2020 Detroit Tigers infielder Sergio Alcantara has been one of the best defensive players in the organization’s farm system since he was acquired from the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2017 with third baseman Dawel Lugo and shortstop Jose King in exchange for J.D. Martinez. Yet his offense
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 5:03 PM EDT Sep 4, 2020 Detroit Tigers left-hander Matthew Boyd has made eight starts this season. His opponents have launched back-to-back leadoff home runs against him in three of them. On Friday, the Minnesota Twins did it for the third time, using homers from Jorge Polanco and Josh
The Twins stationed a cardboard cutout of their former manager, Ron Gardenhire, in the front row right behind home plate for his return to Target Field on Friday. The Tigers manager had said when he found out about the cutout in July that he had better be in a good The Twins stationed a cardboard