We hear from manager Ron Gardenhire after his Tigers earn their first shutout of the season. #ItsMillerTime
We hear from Niko Goodrum after he returns to the Tigers lineup with two singles and an RBI in a 6-0 victory over the Royals. #DetroitRoots
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 10:48 PM EDT Sep 15, 2020 Detroit — Maybe it’s a split-personality thing with Matthew Boyd. Because the left-handed pitcher wearing No. 48 Tuesday scarcely resembled the guy who got tagged for seven runs and needed 78 pitches to get nine outs a week ago against the Brewers. This
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DETROIT — Matthew Boyd followed up his worst start of the season with his best, at a time when the Tigers really needed it. His 5 2/3 scoreless innings supported an early offensive outburst for a 6-0 win over the Royals on Tuesday night at Comerica Park. • Box score DETROIT — Matthew Boyd followed
Detroit Tigers first baseman Jeimer Candelario is rewarded for his hot hitting, becoming the franchises first player of the week since 2018. Check out http://MLB.com/video for more! About MLB.com: About MLB.com: Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League Club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of
As Grayson Greiner’s struggles became too prominent to warrant a roster spot, Detroit Tigers fans expected the team to turn to top catching prospect Jake Rogers. Instead, the team opted to recall former local star Eric Haase. Eric Haase is a 27-year-old catcher who played small parts of the last two seasons with the Cleveland
DETROIT — The revolving door to the Tigers’ infield swung again on Tuesday: Second baseman Jonathan Schoop was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right wrist sprain, and infielder Niko Goodrum was activated from the 10-day IL after missing just under two weeks with a right oblique strain. DETROIT — The revolving door
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:13 PM EDT Sep 15, 2020 Detroit — It was expected that Niko Goodrum would return off the injured list Tuesday. But starting at second base? Didn’t see that coming. “I told him he was playing second base and he said, whatever, he just wants to play,” manager Ron Gardenhire
Chris McCosky The Detroit News Published 6:36 PM EDT Sep 15, 2020 Detroit — He grew up attending games at Comerica Park and dreaming of wearing the Old English D on his jersey one day. That day has come for catcher Eric Haase. “I get chills just thinking about it,” said the Dearborn Divine Child product and
Ronald Blum Associated Press Published 5:32 PM EDT Sep 15, 2020 New York — The World Series will be played entirely at the Texas Rangers’ new ballpark in Arlington, Texas, as part of a bubble agreement between Major League Baseball and the players’ association, the first time the sport’s championship will be played entirely at one site
A deeper look at Matthew Boyd’s Janus-faced disaster. Just a few weeks ago we wrote about Matthew Boyd using his changeup more to save his season. Then he got destroyed again. We aren’t quite ready to abandon our previous theory — Boyd was uncharacteristically wild in his rough outing against the Brewers — but for
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 5:51 PM EDT Sep 15, 2020 Detroit Tigers catcher Eric Haase has been on the traveling taxi squad for road trips all season. He caught warmups, took batting practice and followed the patterns of his fellow catchers, but unless there were two injuries, he wasn’t ever going to play. That changed Tuesday.
The Tigers have made a change to their catching ranks, optioning Grayson Greiner to their alternate training site and calling up Eric Haase. Acquired from the Indians back in January, Haase is line to see his first action of the 2020 season. Greiner has hit .118/.182/.333 over 55 plate appearances this season, continuing the offensive
Major League Baseball on Tuesday announced the schedule for the 2020 Postseason, which is set to open with the American League’s inaugural Wild Card Series on Tuesday, Sept. 29, and the National League’s first Wild Card Series openers on Wednesday, September 30th. In the first neutral site Fall Classic in modern history, Game One of
The easy thing to say here is just resign Jonathan Schoop to a multiyear deal and problem solved for the Detroit Tigers. That is the obvious choice but so far during the Chris Ilitch era, there have been no guarantees. For the Detroit Tigers, there has been just one second baseman in the last 20
The lure of even an 8th place wildcard fantasy is something baseball fans of bad teams want to desperately embrace. Many Detroit Tigers fans, no matter how jaded by the losing of the last few years, we’re willing to entertain the idea the Tigers really could contend for a wildcard spot in the enlarged American
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EDT Sep 15, 2020 Ramon Santiago waited three years to take this test. In recent weeks, he studied on the team bus by watching YouTube videos. Detroit Tigers team members and coaches enjoyed quizzing him about United States history in the dugout. He’s wanted to become a U.S. citizen since
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 6:01 AM EDT Sep 15, 2020 Through 46 games, the Detroit Tigers are just a game out of last place in the American League Central Division. Two weeks ago, that would’ve been hard to believe. The Tigers (20-26) were flirting with the playoffs before being swept by the Chicago White Sox
Evan Petzold Detroit Free Press Published 5:07 PM EDT Sep 14, 2020 The Detroit Tigers haven’t had an American League Player of the Week winner since Nick Castellanos in August 2018. Until now. Jeimer Candelario was named AL Player of the Week on Monday for slashing .423/.500/.923 with three homers and nine RBIs from Sept.