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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...
Matt Moore came to town unbeaten. He hadn't even left a start trailing since last September.But by the time the Tigers ch...
Amazingly, Miguel Cabrera was not part of the Tigers' first back-to-back-to-back home runs in 12 years. He got involved i...
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...
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...
Justin Verlander has arguably more above-average pitches than anybody in the game. He threw a no-hitter two years ago in Toro...
Alex Avila came into Friday's game batting .176 with three RBIs. Suffice to say he had been struggling.In the clubhouse a...
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...
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...
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...
The Tigers needed a miracle to get back into the World Series. They had to settle for a teeth-chattering nail-biter on their ...
As devastating was Max Scherzer's changeup was on Thursday, it was nothing compared with the curveball that the Tigers th...
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 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...
One night after clinching their second consecutive American League Central Division championship, the Tigers' cast was mi...
The Tigers' roller-coaster season led them to town with three chances to wrap up their second straight American League Ce...
The Tigers knew what the White Sox were doing Saturday afternoon. They couldn't miss it on the huge out-of-town scoreboar...
On a day when Doug Fister struck out nine Royals in a row to set an American League record, the Tigers blew a save and rallie...
The groan from the crowd at Comerica Park when Jhonny Peralta hit a ground ball in the eighth inning was unmistakable. So 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 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...
Tigers manager Jim Leyland said it best."When you score that amount of runs with [Justin] Verlander on the mound, you fi...
Drew Smyly doesn't show nerves easily. Neither, for that matter, does Jhonny Peralta.One of them is a veteran shortstop w...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hours after Tigers manager Jim Leyland talked about his team badly needing a right-handed hitter, the reason behind recalling...
No lead seems insurmountable for a Detroit offense that's scored at least three runs in an inning to tie or take the lead...
Two pivotal close calls going against Jhonny Peralta led to the Tigers thwarting their own comeback attempt after the club ra...
The Tigers had more hitters counts than they could count against Ubaldo Jimenez on Tuesday night. Their lack of hits out of t...
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 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...
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...
A year after hitting 21 home runs, Jhonny Peralta went through the first month of the 2012 campaign without finding his power...
For the second straight season, the Mariners have swept a three-game series at Comerica Park in the final week of April. This...
Take whatever side you want in the debate over Yu Darvish's potential after Thursday's 10-3 Tigers loss to the Ranger...
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...
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...
Tigers fans cheered early for honoring former manager Sparky Anderson and cheered late as the Tigers came from behind to bea...
Max Scherzer found his form after three rocky starts, Austin Jackson tripled twice and the Detroit Tigers beat the Seattle M...
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...
Justin Verlander further cemented his place among the Tigers' all-time greats by throwing the second no-hitter of his career...
