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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...
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...
The brick wall behind the outfield seats used to be the standard for tape-measure home runs at Comerica Park. Just a handful ...
The Astros reached the point in the season on Sunday where the air had to be cleared. Someone had to step up and say what nee...
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 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...
With a hitter's count in the bottom of the 13th, Mark Trumbo got the changeup he was looking for and deposited it over th...
A game that threatened records for punchouts Wednesday night ended with Tigers backup catcher Brayan Pena absorbing a potenti...
The Mariners are waiting for everything to fall into place. They're waiting for their young hitters to break out of their...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 last time Justin Verlander lost three consecutive starts, he ended up leading the American League in losses. That was 200...
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...
Struggling for hits all season, even under ordinary circumstances, the Pirates were no match for the extraordinary on Friday ...
Doug Fister's path back to the dominance he enjoyed in the Tigers' rotation down the stretch last year took a wild tu...
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...
Prince Fielder, Miguel Cabrera and the rest of the Detroit Tigers are swinging and missing far too often lately.And for the f...
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...
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...
Remember when Tigers manager Jim Leyland was talking about the good pitching the Tigers had managed to grind through during t...
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...
