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The brick wall behind the outfield seats used to be the standard for tape-measure home runs at Comerica Park. Just a handful ...
The series was billed as a potential World Series preview. For the Tigers, it ended up looking a little bit like a World Seri...
Forget any idea that the Tigers were getting off easy by not facing Stephen Strasburg in this two-game series against the Nat...
Forget any idea that the Tigers were getting off easy by not facing Stephen Strasburg in this two-game series against the Nat...
Forget any idea that the Tigers were getting off easy by not facing Stephen Strasburg in this two-game series against the Nat...
Alex Avila came into Friday's game batting .176 with three RBIs. Suffice to say he had been struggling.In the clubhouse a...
Justin Verlander has ended a lot of Aprils saying he feels like pitches are starting to come together for him. Statistically,...
The bullpen door opened, and Jose Valverde lingered there, like he had so many times before. He might as well have been waiti...
The bullpen door opened, and Jose Valverde lingered there, like he had so many times before. He might as well have been waiti...
Tailgating since 8:30 a.m., a lot of A's fans showed up at O.co Coliseum to watch the pitcher who was the reason the flee...
The Tigers couldn't hold onto a five-run lead Wednesday, so they doubled it on Thursday. They didn't slug their way p...
Justin Verlander and Cole Hamels engaged in the kind of pitching duel, albeit a brief one, that one would expect from them in...
Justin Verlander and Cole Hamels engaged in the kind of pitching duel, albeit a brief one, that one would expect from them in...
Justin Verlander likes to say the Tigers have been playing must-win baseball since September. Now, for just the second time t...
The smirk on Justin Verlander's face as Tigers pitching coach Jeff Jones slowly ambled to the mound in the third inning s...
As devastating was Max Scherzer's changeup was on Thursday, it was nothing compared with the curveball that the Tigers th...
Nobody makes a two-run lead feel like a chasm like Justin Verlander. In case anybody forgot, the Yankees nearly erased it at ...
This is why the Tigers felt they could do something in October if they could only get there. Whatever the other factors, they...
The A's seemingly had destiny on their side. The Tigers had Justin Verlander on theirs.Destiny didn't stand a chance....
The Tigers stood three outs away from a return to the American League Championship Series. All the ups and downs of the seaso...
The roar of a sellout crowd quashed any hope that the Tigers could stroll through town and get a win like it was a regular-se...
Technically, the A's hold home-field advantage in this American League Division Series. But when Justin Verlander opens a...
The groan from the crowd at Comerica Park when Jhonny Peralta hit a ground ball in the eighth inning was unmistakable. So was...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland said Sunday morning it could be a tough day at Comerica Park. He wasn't expecting this.He was ...
The pitch count Wednesday night looked like the 2010 version of Justin Verlander, but it's actually more modern than you ...
The Tigers' Most Valuable Player candidate did everything in his power to ease the tension on Sunday, but even Miguel Cab...
Quintin Berry has never been caught stealing in his brief Major League career, 19-for-19 in stolen bases. On Saturday, he tri...
Stop me if you're heard this one: Justin Verlander and Chris Sale will walk onto a mound with the American League Central...
Sunday's game began and ended just like Saturday's for Detroit, with a Mike Trout leadoff homer and a Tigers loss.Whi...
Justin Verlander couldn't help but notice the Tigers' opportunity to move into a first-place tie in the division afte...
If you disconnected from the outside world for the summer and wanted the abbreviated version of the Tigers' season, this ...
The big showdown for the Tigers and White Sox awaits Sunday night. The big performance from Detroit's other shutdown pitc...
Drew Smyly doesn't show nerves easily. Neither, for that matter, does Jhonny Peralta.One of them is a veteran shortstop w...
The Blue Jays went two years and 13 innings between hits off Justin Verlander. They nearly got out of town with two hits stru...
The Tigers began August with plenty of offense. Detroit tallied 63 runs in its first nine games this month and carried a .318...
The drop of Andy Dirks' blooper right on the left-field line was almost as sudden and startling as the fifth-inning rally...
When the Yankees come to town, count on two things: The crowds are big, and the at-bats are long.They were right on both coun...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland set the expectations before Justin Verlander had arrived at Comerica Park on Monday."Hopefull...
It's cliche to say baseball is a crazy game. But sometimes there's just no other way to describe it. Look no further ...
As manager Jim Leyland made his way back into the dugout following the Tigers' final pitching change Monday night, the Fe...
This is why the Tigers held back Justin Verlander a couple days out of the All-Star break, to beat the White Sox and Jake Pea...
Max Scherzer had a tough act to follow Thursday. One night after Doug Fister's eight-inning, two-hit, 10-strikeout perfor...
One year ago Tuesday, the Tigers were coming off a complete-game shutout at the hands of ex-teammate Edwin Jackson and trying...
From Justin Verlander's first pitch, it was clear Sunday's outing would be nothing like the All-Star Game.Not that th...
Even on the losing end of Saturday's four-hour, 43-minute marathon, the Tigers couldn't help but appreciate the quali...
The last time Duane Below was scheduled to make a spot start -- on April 30 against the Royals -- the Tigers had what still s...
Doug Fister had no-hit stuff for 3 1/3 innings and seemingly had the foundation to flirt with history. Then he went from pote...
The Tigers didn't get back to .500 for the season, as they had hoped by the end of their three-city, 10-game road trip, b...
The Rays held a throwback night to 1979, nearly a decade before Rick Porcello was born. Porcello threw back to his May 2011 o...
For the second consecutive night, the Tigers put up more than a dozen hits and set a career high against their opposing start...
It's not a hump, that .500 mark for the Tigers. It's more like a road bump, the way they see it.Still, as many times ...
Three runs doesn't exactly seem like an insurmountable deficit, but with the way Detroit's hitters have performed lat...
It was a promising season debut for Jacob Turner, but the 21-year-old still doesn't have a Major League victory in four c...
The Tigers had more hitters counts than they could count against Ubaldo Jimenez on Tuesday night. Their lack of hits out of t...
The Tigers have had some ugly games in this road stretch that has seen them lose six of their last nine. This wasn't one ...
For the second year in a row, the Indians swept the Tigers out of town in Detroit's first stop at Progressive Field. As a...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland could have authored the game Wednesday night, the way his words unfolded Wednesday afternoon. He p...
Say what you will about the Tigers' first eight innings Tuesday night against the Indians, from Ubaldo Jimenez's scat...
This is the Max Scherzer the Tigers have been waiting to see. It took a lot of work to get him there."I've worked re...
Struggling for hits all season, even under ordinary circumstances, the Pirates were no match for the extraordinary on Friday ...
Of course manager Jim Leyland predicted Thursday his team was going to hit. He didn't necessarily mean that night, but he...
Forget about the standings. The way the Mariners seem to play the Tigers every time, Detroit had to battle to finally get a w...
A year after hitting 21 home runs, Jhonny Peralta went through the first month of the 2012 campaign without finding his power...
The Tigers couldn't quite pull off the late come-from-behind victory on Wednesday afternoon.Behind a two-run home run fro...
A walk-off passed ball was the capper to a long day for the Tigers in which everything seemed to go wrong.Some of it is what ...
No, it wasn't fair -- the go-ahead squeeze bunt, as replays showed. The run support the Tigers put up for Drew Smyly in h...
The Rangers might be the most confident bunch of hitters in baseball right now. Justin Verlander is pretty confident, too. He...
Take whatever side you want in the debate over Yu Darvish's potential after Thursday's 10-3 Tigers loss to the Ranger...
Drew Smyly stared at the heart of the Rays' order with the bases loaded before recording his first Major League out. His ...
Alex Avila was in the Tigers' dugout for their division tiebreaker in Minnesota in 2009 and was at the heart of their Ame...
If this qualifies as the start of the daily routine, as the second game of the season often does, the Tigers are in for quite...
The Tigers came home Thursday morning as a team billed with star power. They left Comerica Park later in the afternoon lookin...
This wasn't the way the Tigers' season was expected to end, even if they didn't get to the World Series.Close, heartbreaking ...
Some 14 hours after their American League Central-clinching party ended, the Tigers went back to work Saturday afternoon aga...
An hour earlier, lightning, thunder, and gale winds had moved through Comerica Park, bringing on the tarp, and sending home s...
Justin Verlander became the majors’ first 20-game winner, grinding through six innings in the Detroit Tigers’ 6-...
Heading into the All-Star break, the Tigers were one of the top run-scoring teams in the Majors but had one of the highest ER...
Heading into the All-Star break, the Tigers were one of the top run-scoring teams in the Majors but had one of the highest ER...
One season 12 years ago as the Rockies manager, Jim Leyland gave a simple gauge for measuring the effectiveness of a startin...
Max Scherzer found his form after three rocky starts, Austin Jackson tripled twice and the Detroit Tigers beat the Seattle M...
Justin Verlander still remembers his struggles at U.S. Cellular Field earlier in his career. After seven straight wins again...
The Tigers were in and out of town in less than 48 hours. It only seemed like an eternity with every play at Target Field.In ...
This was a game, manager Jim Leyland said on Monday afternoon, that if he were at home as a fan, he would like to watch on t...
Justin Verlander further cemented his place among the Tigers' all-time greats by throwing the second no-hitter of his career...
