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The pitching duel in Texas that fans expected to see on Thursday night from Justin Verlander and Yu Darvish showed up 24 hour...
Jim Leyland gave the warning Wednesday morning: Beating any team seven times in a row is tough to pull off, even the Astros.T...
Alex Avila came into Friday's game batting .176 with three RBIs. Suffice to say he had been struggling.In the clubhouse a...
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...
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 Yankees' game-tying four-run rally off Jose Valverde in the ninth Saturday had plenty of Tigers fans calling for some...
The Tigers stood three outs away from a return to the American League Championship Series. All the ups and downs of the seaso...
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...
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 ...
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...
The big showdown for the Tigers and White Sox awaits Sunday night. The big performance from Detroit's other shutdown pitc...
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 scored more than three runs just three times on this nine-game road trip that began in Cleveland and stopped over ...
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 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...
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...
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...
The Tigers had six innings to cover with an injury-depleted bullpen Sunday night once Drew Smyly left with what manager Jim L...
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...
Miguel Cabrera hit somewhere around 900 feet worth of home runs to put the Tigers ahead.The Yankees tied it in the ninth inni...
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...
Justin Verlander is still the Tigers' constant.Weary of the checkerboard pattern of wins and losses on the calendar? Worr...
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...
The Rangers might be the most confident bunch of hitters in baseball right now. Justin Verlander is pretty confident, too. He...
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 ...
The Tigers weren't going to win them all. But nobody imagined them losing their first like this.What started as Justin Ve...
The Tigers came home Thursday morning as a team billed with star power. They left Comerica Park later in the afternoon lookin...
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...
Ten days after Justin Verlander and Josh Beckett battled to no-decisions, their rematch Sunday night at Comerica Park came d...
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...
