TOLEDO, Ohio — Late Tuesday night, Kerry Carpenter was called into Lloyd McClendon’s office for a surprise meeting. “Did your dad die a few years ago?” McClendon, the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens manager, asked. “Yes,” Carpenter said. Carpenter’s father, Ken, died on May 11, 2020, from a rare form of liver cancer at the age
Toledo Mud Hens 5, Omaha Storm Chasers 4 (box) Omaha got off to a fast start in this one, dropping three runs on Elvin Rodriguez, including a pair of home runs, in the first inning on Tuesday. He settled in from there to surprisingly go five more innings, all of them scoreless, to keep the
DETROIT — The question would come up as Kerry Carpenter mashed his way through Double-A pitching at Erie early this season: Why are you still here? Fans would ask. So would opposing players, tired of watching him dominate against their pitchers on his way to 20 home runs by mid-June. “I try not to think
Detroit — It was former Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber chopping them up on Tuesday, but the way the Tigers have swung the bats the last two games, it might not have mattered who was on the mound. After being shut out on three hits by the Rays on Sunday, Bieber blanked them over
Kerry Carpenter is about to make his MLB debut. The Detroit Tigers promoted Carpenter, who has 30 home runs in 97 games in the minor leagues this season, to the big leagues Tuesday night. The 24-year-old outfielder will start as the designated hitter Wednesday against the Cleveland Guardians at Comerica Park. To make room for Carpenter
BELOIT, WI – Detroit Tigers Top Prospect and West Michigan Whitecaps third baseman Izaac Pacheco left early as part of a 3-2 loss to the Beloit Sky Carp on Tuesday night at ABC Supply Stadium. Pacheco, who homered in each of his first two games with West Michigan, suffered what BELOIT, WI – Detroit Tigers
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The Tigers are bringing up corner outfield prospect Kerry Carpenter to make his major league debut, the team informed reporters (including Evan Woodbery of MLive.com). Daz Cameron is being optioned to Triple-A Toledo in a corresponding move. The club will need to clear a spot on the 40-man roster before tomorrow’s game to formally select Carpenter’s contract.
We hear from Tyler Alexander after he throws seven strong innings Tuesday, giving his Tigers a chance to win. #DetroitRoots
We hear from manager A.J. Hinch after his Tigers suffer a 5-2 to the Guardians on Tuesday. #Leinenkugels
The SeaWolves opened a six-game series against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats with a 9-6 win on Tuesday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. The SeaWolves grabbed the lead in the third against Fisher Cats starter Alejandro Melean. Gage Workman singled with one out and Luis Carpio put the ‘Wolves The SeaWolves opened a six-game
TOLEDO, Ohio – Coming off a series win in Iowa, the Mud Hens began a new series, welcoming the Omaha Storm Chasers to Fifth Third Field. The Mud Hens came into today’s game with a 5-7 record against Omaha, this season (all road games). RHP Elvin Rodriguez got the call TOLEDO, Ohio – Coming off
Detroit — It was former Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber chopping them up on Tuesday, but the way the Tigers have swung the bats the last two games, it might not have mattered who was on the mound. After being shut out on three hits by the Rays on Sunday, Bieber blanked them over
The Detroit Tigers faced off against a familiar rival from the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday night, looking to try and find some success against Shane Bieber despite his career dominance over them. Bieber and the rest of the Guardians instead pushed the Tiger’s scoreless innings streak to seventeen innings before they decided to be kind
Detroit Tigers left-hander Tyler Alexander has made seven starts this season but only three since his late-July switch from the bullpen to the rotation. In his latest outing, he pitched into the seventh inning for the first time this season. The Cleveland Guardians, though, scored once in the fifth and sixth innings, and without any support from the Tigers’
Detroit — In case there was any doubt, Gregory Soto remains the Tigers’ closer. If we have the lead in the ninth inning, I’m going to give him the ball and he’s going to throw more strikes than he did Sunday,” manager AJ Hinch said before the game Tuesday. Sunday was an unmitigated disaster for Soto
To listen to Mel Tucker, you would think Michigan State football is emerging from a rebuilding season and not the 11-win campaign that put the Spartans back on the college football map. “In order to sustain, you really can’t sustain,” the third-year coach said Thursday. “You have to get better.” Much of what he said
The Cleveland Guardians roll into Detroit on Tuesday night to kick off a three game series against the Tigers. The Guards currently sit one game behind the Minnesota Twins for first place in the American League Central Division and are a game and a half out of the third and final AL Wild Card spot.
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Detroit Tigers right-hander Matt Manning has two months to check three boxes: throw as many innings as possible, develop his secondary pitches and separate himself as a frontline starting pitcher for 2023. In Sunday’s 7-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, Manning became the Tigers’ third pitcher this season to deliver seven scoreless innings, along with left-hander Tarik