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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 ...
Rick Porcello kept up the starting pitching surge Detroit has been riding all season.Prince Fielder came through with another...
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...
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...
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...
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 Mariners are waiting for everything to fall into place. They're waiting for their young hitters to break out of their...
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...
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...
As devastating was Max Scherzer's changeup was on Thursday, it was nothing compared with the curveball that the Tigers th...
The A's seemingly had destiny on their side. The Tigers had Justin Verlander on theirs.Destiny didn't stand a chance....
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...
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 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...
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...
Sunday's game began and ended just like Saturday's for Detroit, with a Mike Trout leadoff homer and a Tigers loss.Whi...
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...
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...
This is what the Tigers had in mind when they signed Prince Fielder to hit behind Miguel Cabrera. It's not just about big...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 six innings to cover with an injury-depleted bullpen Sunday night once Drew Smyly left with what manager Jim L...
Don't ask manager Jim Leyland what he's going to do with Quintin Berry once Austin Jackson returns, because he doesn&...
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...
The Tigers couldn't quite pull off the late come-from-behind victory on Wednesday afternoon.Behind a two-run home run fro...
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...
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...
Pure and simple, it was Justin Verlander's game to win or lose.Closer? Never mind. Verlander wanted to finish what he had...
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 ...
Rick Porcello looked calm, confident and controlled Tuesday like the kind of veteran pitcher the Tigers are hoping he becomes...
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...
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...
Justin Verlander still remembers his struggles at U.S. Cellular Field earlier in his career. After seven straight wins again...
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...
