Houston – As he listed all the experiences he has had in his five years as manager of the Houston Astros – the building a winning team, the two World Series appearances and the championship, surviving a hurricane and dangerous floods, his oldest daughter graduating from a Houston-area high school and his youngest still in
HOUSTON — The on-field playfulness that Miguel Cabrera and Jose Altuve usually engage in when the Tigers roll through town will have to wait until the Astros come to Detroit. But the good news for the Tigers on Monday is that they might not have to wait long to get the injured Cabrera back in
If there’s one thing that comes to mind when someone says “Houston Astros” it definitely involves a trash can or two. That said, the Astros of today are barely the same team they were in 2017, and yes, fans of the club are a little tired of those same old jokes. Ahead of the Tigers
The Detroit Tigers received information from team doctors that allowed them to breathe a sigh of relief about Miguel Cabrera, who was put on the 10-day injured list Sunday with a left biceps strain. Cabrera, too, was relieved upon hearing the injury was a “mild strain,” manager AJ Hinch said Monday. This means the former
Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a weekly series of stories in which Detroit News freelance writer Lynn Henning will rank the top prospects in July’s MLB Draft. Jud Fabian was supposed to have been The Guy. The best college outfielder, as far as 2021 MLB draft status went heading into spring, was thought to
The Tigers head west of the Mississippi for the first time in 2021 to take on the Houston Astros as the 10-game road trip rolls on. They do so in the midst of a four game losing streak. The offense has been anemic during this stretch, but will have a chance to get on track
I’m not sure the modern day fan is built to handle the sport of baseball. As we move increasingly toward a society where instant gratification is the norm and little matters beyond the moment, it’s hard to wrangle the perspective required for a 162 game season that begins in April and trudges slowly forward (they
Well, we’ve seen worse weekends in Ohio. But hey, this isn’t the Jim Harbaugh Newsletter. No, it’s the Detroit Tigers Newsletter — hello and welcome! — which means we have to talk about that sweep down in Cleveland, which only felt like it finished up at 62-39. The real score was 20-6 over 27 innings,
The dominant feature of Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal is his screaming fourseam fastball. We say “screaming” because throughout his run through the minors and his 2020 debut, the pitch featured superb, high-efficiency backspin that gave it above average vertical and horizontal movement both. Combined with premium velocity for a southpaw, this is the weapon
The Detroit Tigers weekend series with Cleveland did not much provide a lot of highlights nor wins. The team’s run differential is -25, which is the second-worst in the league, and manager A.J. Hinch expressed his frustration with the team in one quote to the media yesterday.
The main weakness in an otherwise strong Detroit Tigers prospect pipeline, is the struggle to land quality talent in the high rounds beyond the first. Matt Manning, Alex Faedo, Casey Mize, Riley Greene, and Spencer Torkelson is quite a haul with first round picks for general manager Al Avila, but of course two of those
It was a wreck of a weekend for the Detroit Tigers. Injuries piled up, mistakes mounted and so did the losses. “We just got our ass kicked by the Indians for the third time in a row,” Tigers manager AJ Hinch said on Sunday after a 5-2 loss, which completed a 3-game sweep in Cleveland. If
The Germans have a word for it. OK, the Germans have a word for pretty much everything. But in this case, when it came to seeing the Houston Astros get what was coming to them for more than a year, I could only think of one perfect, beautiful German word: schadenfreude. The word literally translates
Just a week-plus into the season, suffice it to say, no one is celebrating their impending World Series title or already looking toward the offseason. In a way, with this season so new, everything feels like a surprise. But certain surprises are already standing out. Every team has one player who has been a pleasant,
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Tigers catcher Wilson Ramos had another home run today, making it the second game in a row with a long ball. He speaks with the media post game. #DetroitRoots
We hear from manager A.J. Hinch after his Tigers suffer a three-game sweep in Cleveland. #Leinenkugels
The Detroit Tigers went 13-for-91 in their three-game series, a mere .143 batting average, and got swept by Cleveland on Sunday in a 5-2 loss at Progressive Field. Along with dropping four straight games, the Tigers (3-6) dug themselves into a deeper hole at the conclusion of the first of three legs in a 10-game road trip. After
Cleveland — Coming off three straight losses, with the offense scuffling, losing both Julio Teheran (shoulder) and Miguel Cabrera (biceps strain) in successive days just three games into a 10-game trip, it would have been easy for the Tigers to drag tail into the series finale against the Indians Sunday. Except their manager wouldn’t let them.
The Detroit Tigers continued their lifeless offense in the top of the eighth inning. They had a chance to even the score or take the lead, but squandered the opportunity with three consecutive strikeouts. Facing Cleveland right-handed reliever James Karinchak, Robbie Grossman took a leadoff walk and, after Willi Castro struck out swinging, stole second base.