St. Louis, Mo. — Dog days? In August? Don’t try to throw that old saw at Tigers manager AJ Hinch. “The mental fatigue is real for players but it’s reality,” he said before the game Tuesday. “If we get to where we want to get to, this isn’t even the stretch run yet. This is just August.
ST. LOUIS — Tigers outfielder Akil Baddoo considers himself lucky. Well, as lucky as a guy who sustained a concussion can feel. Baddoo rejoined the team on Tuesday after being reinstated from the 10-day injured list after a scary collision with teammate Derek Hill as the two attempted to chase down a gapper in Baltimore
Detroit Tigers fans, and the baseball world at large, are still aglow after Miguel Cabrera hit his historic 500th home run last Sunday in Toronto. For national writers it was a chance to offer retrospectives, or peer into the future and project the next members of the 500 Club. For Detroit Tigers fans? It was…
A.J. Hinch has said “we have to get the pitching right” for the Tigers to take the next step and become contenders. Two positives in that direction are reliever Michael Fulmer and starter Tarik Skubal. Fulmer’s story begins with a pregame meeting with NASCAR’s Erik Jones, before we go inside the mentality that is making
Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera reacts to hitting 500th home run Detroit Tigers veteran Miguel Cabrera talks Sunday, August 22, 2021, after reaching 500 home runs in a 5-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press Detroit Tigers (60-66) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (63-60) When: 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. Where:
Sunday, August 22 will go down as one of the most exciting days of the Detroit Tigers’ 2021 season. In the top of the sixth inning against the Toronto Blue Jays, Miguel Cabrera sent a pitch from lefty Steven Matz sailing over the wall in right-center to become the 28th major leaguer to hit 500…
I have to be honest, of all of the 362 baseballs Miguel Cabrera has sent over a fence in his time with the Detroit Tigers, the 500th of his storied career means little to me personally. On a Sunday in August for a third-place club, Miggy lofted a Steven Matz breaking ball over the right-center…
The Tigers are kicking off a two-game series in St. Louis this week, and we figured on this rare occasion that we see a non-Pirates NL Central team we should take a moment to see what’s going on with the Cardinals. The NL Central is in a pretty similar state of shambles that the AL
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Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila sat down with Justin Verlander, J.D. Martinez and Miguel Cabrera to explain his plan for the future. Not long after Avila became the organization’s leader in August 2015, the franchise was entering a full-fledged rebuild. “We all knew Cabrera was the one guy I couldn’t trade,” Avila said earlier
Funkhouser has been one of the Detroit Tigers’ most reliable bullpen arms all season and has made great strides since debuting in the 2020s shortened season. Despite pitching a small sample size of 17 innings last year, there are a lot of numbers to suggest a small change in approach in 2021 has led to…
We finally got there. After sitting on 499 homers for what felt like forever, Miguel Cabrera finally launched No. 500 on Sunday, further cementing his legacy among some of the game’s greatest ever hitters. His quest now turns to 3000 hits (more on that later), but this was a huge weight off his chest. For
Miguel Cabrera was in a slump — about five years ago — and Al Kaline walked by in the clubhouse. Kaline squeezed Cabrera’s shoulder as if to say: “You’ll get through this. I know what you are going through. I have confidence in you.” “Oh, Mr. Kaline,” Cabrera said. “I need some of your greatness.”
As you may have heard this week, it’s an exclusive club Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera joined on Sunday when he hit the 500th home run of his career. Cabrera is the 28th member of the club; here’s how every member reached 500 homers, from Boston heartbreaker Babe Ruth to Boston cheerleader David Ortiz, in
The Tigers have reinstated outfielder Akil Baddoo from the 10-day injured list. The team also announced that right-hander Drew Hutchison was designated for assignment, opening up space for Baddoo to rejoin the active roster. Baddoo hasn’t played since August 10 due to a concussion, as he was first placed on the seven-day concussion IL and
The Detroit Tigers reinstated rookie outfielder Akil Baddoo from the injured list Monday night, setting the stage for his return to in-game action Tuesday in St. Louis for the start of a two-game series with the Cardinals. Baddoo has been sidelined since an Aug. 10 collision in the outfield in Baltimore with fellow outfielder Derek
After a day to digest Miguel Cabrera’s 500th career home run, here’s our menu of Miggy’s Top 10 most-memorable homers.
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By TC Zencka | August 21, 2021 at 10:16am CDT The Tigers have reinstated Derek Hill from the 10-day injured list. To make room on the roster, Renato Nunez was designated for assignment, per the team. Nunez joined the Tigers after being released by the Orioles in November. He’s spent most of the season in