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Until Tuesday night, just 10 Major League players had homered three times off Justin Verlander in his eight-year career. J.J....
Move over, Wabash George Mullin. Max Scherzer can't have your nickname, but he has designs on your record.He can't ha...
With an early lead and yet another quality start on the mound, the Tigers easily worked their way to a 5-2 victory Sunday at ...
Trevor Plouffe had three hits, including a two-run homer, in his return to the Twins lineup, and Sam Deduno held Detroit in c...
Rick Porcello kept up the starting pitching surge Detroit has been riding all season.Prince Fielder came through with another...
If the Royals are going to restore credibility to their season, there's no better way than to beat the American League Ce...
Jose Alvarez was only supposed to be a spot starter for Anibal Sanchez, who was scratched with tightness in his shoulder. He ...
Rick Porcello did not get the seventh inning this time. Instead he got run support.The way Porcello has been pitching lately,...
Justin Verlander waited more than an hour through a rain delay in Cleveland to get started on his current winning streak afte...
Doug Fister says that he approaches every inning like it's part of a scoreless game, regardless of the actual score. He&#...
Matt Moore came to town unbeaten. He hadn't even left a start trailing since last September.But by the time the Tigers ch...
Rick Porcello took the mound for the seventh inning Sunday at Camden Yards with a two-run lead and 16 consecutive scoreless i...
Amazingly, Miguel Cabrera was not part of the Tigers' first back-to-back-to-back home runs in 12 years. He got involved i...
Four consecutive singles couldn't earn the Tigers a run. Three hits with runners in scoring position couldn't get the...
Baseball bats know nothing. They don't know the situation, or even that there's a game being played. All they know is...
Justin Verlander was almost unbeatable two years ago on his way to 24 victories, and wasn't far off on his way to 17 wins...
Jim Leyland is running out of things to say about Miguel Cabrera."I have been for a few years now," the Tigers mana...
Miguel Cabrera blasting three home runs and Prince Fielder delivering a bases-clearing double would normally mean a Tigers wi...
Despite entering the game with seven straight quality starts, the right-hander gave up six runs, five earned, on nine hits ov...
The pitching duel in Texas that fans expected to see on Thursday night from Justin Verlander and Yu Darvish showed up 24 hour...
Justin Verlander has made more memorable starts in his career than he can count. This wasn't one of them.Thursday night&#...
Jim Leyland gave the warning Wednesday morning: Beating any team seven times in a row is tough to pull off, even the Astros.T...
Lucas Harrell baffled the Tigers for 4 2/3 innings and protected a two-run lead. By the time he got the third out of the fift...
Center field is just half the challenge of replacing Austin Jackson in the Tigers lineup. Finding another leadoff man who get...
Center field is just half the challenge of replacing Austin Jackson in the Tigers lineup. Finding another leadoff man who get...
Justin Verlander has arguably more above-average pitches than anybody in the game. He threw a no-hitter two years ago in Toro...
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...
The Astros brought up two pitchers on Thursday from Triple-A Oklahoma City. They wasted little time in making contributions.H...
Anibal Sanchez racked up more strikeouts. The Twins racked up early runs. In the end, the Twins got the win.In the end, the T...
Justin Verlander has ended a lot of Aprils saying he feels like pitches are starting to come together for him. Statistically,...
Prince Fielder changed his walk-up music a few days ago to Mozart's Requiem because he wanted something dramatic. His fir...
The weather was miserable Sunday night, like somebody threw a mister over Comerica Park. The crowd didn't seem to care. T...
Was it all a mirage, this Tigers bullpen in working order? Or was it numbers working against them?It all lined up so well for...
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...
The dribbler to short on Rick Porcello's second pitch Saturday afternoon was not a good sign.The back-to-back ground ball...
A game that threatened records for punchouts Wednesday night ended with Tigers backup catcher Brayan Pena absorbing a potenti...
Jarrod Parker's rocky start continued Sunday as the Detroit Tigers dominated the Oakland Athletics, 10-1, to win the seri...
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...
No, Wednesday was not a good day for relievers at Comerica Park.Darin Downs, who nearly lost his life to a fractured skull of...
Justin Verlander casually mentioned in January how cool it would be to spend his entire career in a Tigers uniform. He took o...
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...
Bruce Rondon says he can tell when he hits 100 mph on a radar gun, by the reaction of the crowd and by the feel for the pitch...
After all the debate, all the rhetoric, all the statistical and historical analysis, it wasn't close. Miguel Cabrera was ...
The Tigers needed a miracle to get back into the World Series. They had to settle for a teeth-chattering nail-biter on their ...
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 ...
The Yankees' game-tying four-run rally off Jose Valverde in the ninth Saturday had plenty of Tigers fans calling for some...
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...
As October marches on, the Tigers will play far more important games. But when the regular season's final out was made, M...
One night after clinching their second consecutive American League Central Division championship, the Tigers' cast was mi...
The Tigers knew what the White Sox were doing Saturday afternoon. They couldn't miss it on the huge out-of-town scoreboar...
The groan from the crowd at Comerica Park when Jhonny Peralta hit a ground ball in the eighth inning was unmistakable. So was...
This is why the Tigers traded for Anibal Sanchez, for nights like Tuesday. It just took him a while to fit into it."That...
Justin Verlander can spot a 99-mph fastball on the corner to strike out a hitter, come back with curveballs to get ahead of t...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland said Sunday morning it could be a tough day at Comerica Park. He wasn't expecting this.He was ...
They know the feeling, watching the White Sox on television after the Tigers' game has ended and wondering where they'...
The pitch count Wednesday night looked like the 2010 version of Justin Verlander, but it's actually more modern than you ...
The Tigers came home off back-to-back one-run losses that cost them three games in the standings and broke out the bats in a ...
The tarp went on the infield at U.S. Cellular Field almost as soon as the White Sox recorded the final out of the Tigers 5-4 ...
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...
So much for the usual Chicago-to-Cleveland letdown the Tigers have suffered whenever they've gone from beating the first-...
Stop me if you're heard this one: Justin Verlander and Chris Sale will walk onto a mound with the American League Central...
The Tigers awakened from their September slumber on Tuesday, just in time to even their four-game division clash with the Whi...
Rick Porcello went four weeks without the Tigers scoring a run while he was pitching. On the night his offense finally got hi...
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 the Tigers keep pitching this well, they'll take their chances. For the first time this series, their chances paid off...
If you disconnected from the outside world for the summer and wanted the abbreviated version of the Tigers' season, this ...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland said it best."When you score that amount of runs with [Justin] Verlander on the mound, you fi...
The Blue Jays went two years and 13 innings between hits off Justin Verlander. They nearly got out of town with two hits stru...
Max Scherzer remains on pace for the highest strikeout rate per nine innings by a starter since Randy Johnson in 2002. The Bl...
The Tigers began August with plenty of offense. Detroit tallied 63 runs in its first nine games this month and carried a .318...
It wasn't the heat that did in the Tigers in Texas on Sunday, even though the temperature got to 104. It was plenty else....
This is what the Tigers had in mind when they signed Prince Fielder to hit behind Miguel Cabrera. It's not just about big...
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 ...
The Tigers scored more than three runs just three times on this nine-game road trip that began in Cleveland and stopped over ...
When the Tigers look back on their struggles to drive in runs at times this season, they'll look at this one and have to ...
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...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland has repeatedly said that pitching will be the determining factor in how far Detroit can go this se...
One year ago Tuesday, the Tigers were coming off a complete-game shutout at the hands of ex-teammate Edwin Jackson and trying...
This is the kind of comeback victory the Tigers were expected to get this year. As a result of Monday's 8-6 win over the ...
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...
As the Tigers were hovering below .500 for much of the first half of the season, manager Jim Leyland never questioned the cal...
The Tigers have turned to Justin Verlander for wins at Kauffman Stadium for seven years. Why wouldn't the American League...
The Tigers have turned to Justin Verlander for wins at Kauffman Stadium for seven years. Why wouldn't the American League...
It will be remembered as a disappointing first half of the season for the Tigers, but in their final week leading up to the A...
For the Tigers, Saturday's win to get above .500 was a complete team effort.Doug Fister wasn't especially great and J...
The last time Duane Below was scheduled to make a spot start -- on April 30 against the Royals -- the Tigers had what still s...
The Rays held a throwback night to 1979, nearly a decade before Rick Porcello was born. Porcello threw back to his May 2011 o...
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 ...
Argue all you want about whether there's such a thing as a big pitch with an eight-run lead. When it involves Rick Porcel...
Argue all you want about whether there's such a thing as a big pitch with an eight-run lead. When it involves Rick Porcel...
Argue all you want about whether there's such a thing as a big pitch with an eight-run lead. When it involves Rick Porcel...
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...
Jim Leyland wants more of a mean streak out of his Tigers. At least once every five games, he doesn't have to look beyond...
With two outs in the fourth inning, the rain began pouring down on a sold-out Father's Day crowd of 40,619 at Comerica Pa...
Hours after Tigers manager Jim Leyland talked about his team badly needing a right-handed hitter, the reason behind recalling...
Manager Jim Leyland described baseball at Wrigley Field as more of a happening than a game. The audible Detroit fans contribu...
Two pivotal close calls going against Jhonny Peralta led to the Tigers thwarting their own comeback attempt after the club ra...
The Tigers had six innings to cover with an injury-depleted bullpen Sunday night once Drew Smyly left with what manager Jim L...
Justin Verlander's winless streak stretched to four games Saturday. He didn't particularly care.The line from Verland...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland hates the feeling when he calls a squeeze bunt and has to wait and see it executed. Enough what-if...
A smile isn't something seen in the Tigers' clubhouse too often as of late. But after picking up his first career vic...
The Tigers are still trying to get out of the corner. They're at least swinging. They just couldn't do enough damage ...
The Tigers had more hitters counts than they could count against Ubaldo Jimenez on Tuesday night. Their lack of hits out of t...
The last time Justin Verlander lost three consecutive starts, he ended up leading the American League in losses. That was 200...
Miguel Cabrera hit somewhere around 900 feet worth of home runs to put the Tigers ahead.The Yankees tied it in the ninth inni...
The potential was never been in question with Casey Crosby when he has been healthy. But potential doesn't shut down the ...
Don't ask manager Jim Leyland what he's going to do with Quintin Berry once Austin Jackson returns, because he doesn&...
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 ...
Five days ago, Justin Verlander threw 100-mph fastballs in the eighth and turned in an inning to remember during a loss in Cl...
The Tigers' road trip of disagreement resumed Monday at Fenway Park. Unlike their arguments last week in Cleveland, howev...
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...
The Tigers offense everyone expected finally showed up Tuesday.It was a good thing, too, because the Tigers needed every last...
The Tigers solved part of the equation Monday night in attempting to break out of their season-long offensive funk. As for th...
Prince Fielder, Miguel Cabrera and the rest of the Detroit Tigers are swinging and missing far too often lately.And for the f...
The Tigers found the form they'd been looking for out of Brandon Inge ever since last summer. It just came in the wrong u...
Of course manager Jim Leyland predicted Thursday his team was going to hit. He didn't necessarily mean that night, but he...
Drew Smyly deserves better than what he has gotten during his four weeks in the big leagues.The Tigers, meanwhile, probably g...
Forget about the standings. The way the Mariners seem to play the Tigers every time, Detroit had to battle to finally get a w...
The Tigers returned home looking for big hits, wanting a deep start to rest the bullpen and needing a clean game and a no-dou...
The Tigers returned home looking for big hits, wanting a deep start to rest the bullpen and needing a clean game and a no-dou...
The Tigers returned home looking for big hits, wanting a deep start to rest the bullpen and needing a clean game and a no-dou...
One call can turn a ballgame. One ball or a strike, even out of 119 pitches, can make a big difference.When it's one ball...
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 ...
The Tigers couldn't have liked their chances at beating Felix Hernandez when they took him to a full count with the bases...
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...
Rick Porcello had gone his first 14 2/3 innings of the 2012 season having only allowed three runs. In one-plus inning of work...
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...
Memo to the American League: If you want to apply the shift and pack the right side of the infield against Prince Fielder, pr...
The Tigers got what they expect will be a sneak preview of coming attractions on Tuesday night. Miguel Cabrera stings the opp...
Pure and simple, it was Justin Verlander's game to win or lose.Closer? Never mind. Verlander wanted to finish what he had...
Nine games into the 2012 season, the vaunted Tigers rotation has finally gotten off the ground with a victory. The first one ...
Remember when Tigers manager Jim Leyland was talking about the good pitching the Tigers had managed to grind through during t...
Drew Smyly stared at the heart of the Rays' order with the bases loaded before recording his first Major League out. His ...
The Tigers weren't going to win them all. But nobody imagined them losing their first like this.What started as Justin Ve...
Rick Porcello looked calm, confident and controlled Tuesday like the kind of veteran pitcher the Tigers are hoping he becomes...
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...
This wasn't the way the Tigers' season was expected to end, even if they didn't get to the World Series.Close, heartbreaking ...
Justin Verlander looked at Alex Avila in the Tigers' dugout and smiled as the raindrops fell. Considering he was in the same...
Some 14 hours after their American League Central-clinching party ended, the Tigers went back to work Saturday afternoon aga...
Before Sunday night's nationally televised game between Detroit and the White Sox, Tigers manager Jim Leyland planned to spe...
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...
Magglio Ordonez hit a go-ahead, two-run single with two outs in the seventh inning and Detroit went on to beat the San Franci...
One season 12 years ago as the Rockies manager, Jim Leyland gave a simple gauge for measuring the effectiveness of a startin...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland had plenty to lament Saturday night, from another rough sixth inning to an inexplicable four-pitc...
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 ...
The Tigers have seen slow starts from the Twins before. They remember 2006 and '09 pretty well, at least the players who were...
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...
