All 30 nominees for the 2021 Roberto Clemente Award — one per club, including 18 first-timers — were announced by Major League Baseball on Tuesday. Considered baseball’s most prestigious individual honor for Major Leaguers, the Clemente Award annually recognizes the MLB player who best represents the game through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive
Brad Ausmus signals to the bullpen and Joe Nathan is called to the bump. Nathan faced four batters, lobbed 20 pitches, earned two walks, and poetically flipped off Detroit Tigers fans all in the span of one inning pitched.
The Detroit Tigers loaded the Mud Hens just in time with some of the top talents in the system. RILEY GREENE IS MURDERING THE CUBS! STOP THE FIGHT! STOP THE FIGHT! “Throw in the damn towel, Rock!”
Even at this late point in the Detroit Tigers’ 2021 season, Michael Fulmer’s year still feels like a work in progress. Changes in his role, his delivery, his stuff, sandwiched around yet another stint on the injured list, have all contributed to a lot of uncertainty. As he nears his last offseason before free agency,
Jonathan Schoop isn’t afraid of the pressure. Quietly confident might be the best way to describe the Detroit Tigers‘ infielder, who willingly sacrificed his role as a second baseman to find a home last winter. He re-signed with the Tigers in February, inking a one-year, $4.5 million contract. Putting pen to paper, the 29-year-old knew he
Beth Harris | AP Sports Writer Los Angeles – As the standing ovation for his 3,000th career strikeout grew louder, Max Scherzer paused on the mound. He doffed his cap, tossed the souvenir ball toward the dugout, and immediately got back to work. Mr. Efficiency, indeed. No time to waste when it’s September, your new team
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This week is the final games of the season for Double-A Erie, High-A West Michigan, and Low-A Lakeland. For Detroit Tigers prospect fans, it is the end of some considerable growth in a system that will be under new supervision in 2022.
PITTSBURGH — Don Kelly wasn’t just a Tigers player the last time Detroit had a playoff team, he was a postseason folk hero, hitting the go-ahead homer in Game 5 of the 2011 American League Division Series at Yankee Stadium and a walk-off sacrifice fly in Game 2 of the 2012 AL Division Series against
The Detroit Tigers gutted out a memorable comeback victory Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays. The late-inning heroics from Jeimer Candelario and Robbie Grossman provided a 8-7 win in the 11th inning at Comerica Park. But the game could have been less stressful. Manager AJ Hinch lined up his bullpen perfectly, thanks to three scoreless innings from starter Tarik
A line drive to the right-center gap for the Detroit Tigers against the Twins in April. Another liner, this one down the left-field line in Baltimore in August. A ball crushed to center at Comerica Park that bounced over the fence against the Blue Jays. And, most recently, a dart that bounced off the bottom
Max Scherzer has had an amazing career on his way to 3,000 Ks. Check out the best throughout his journey! Don’t forget to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/mlb Follow us elsewhere too: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mlb TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/share/user/6569247715560456198 Visit our site for all baseball news, stats and scores! https://www.mlb.com/
Now that the Tigers have disposed of those pesky Rays, we welcome the Brewers to town before heading off to take on — checks notes — the Rays. While we hope those winning ways continue let’s catch up with some news. Tigers can hang In the aftermath of the Sunday win against the Marlins, Manager
Detroit — Robbie Grossman noticed it as soon as the Tigers reconvened after the All-Star break. There was something different about Jeimer Candelario. “You could tell when he went home for the All-Star break and came back, he had that look in his eyes,” Grossman said. “You could tell he went home and worked on some
Toledo Mud Hens 8, Iowa Cubs 1 (box) Three home runs and a strong day for the pitching staff carried the Mud Hens to a comfortable win over the Cubs as they took the six-game series five games to one. They got started early, as Daz Cameron led off the game with a double, and
Jeimer Candelario waited for the fifth pitch from Tampa Bay Rays reliever Andrew Kittredge on Sunday at Comerica Park. The Detroit Tigers‘ third baseman had worked a 2-2 count, fouling off a pair of fastballs and watching a fastball and a slider miss the strike zone. All he wanted was a quality at-bat. “That happened,”
The big storylines from today’s Padres-Dodgers game all revolve around Max Scherzer. Not only did he become just the 19th pitcher in Major League history to reach 3,000 career strikeouts, he also threw an immaculate inning and carried a perfect game into the eighth inning. However, the opposing clubhouse didn’t have nearly as much to
Every team, whether it’s a good one or a bad one or whatever comes in between, has an unsung hero. Call them a glue guy, a secret weapon, the X-factor: He’s the player who is key to everything his team is doing — and is generally underpublicized at doing so. Here’s a look at every
COMSTOCK PARK, MI – Great Lakes Loons outfielder Andy Pages delivered two huge swings as the Loons piled on six runs in the ninth to rally past the West Michigan Whitecaps 10-7 in front of 4,942 fans in the LMCU Ballpark regular season finale on Sunday afternoon. Pages blasted two home runs accounting for four