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KANSAS CITY -- Gage Workman waited seemingly forever for the Tigers to call his name among their lengthy list of injury replacements. Finally given his shot, he didn’t need long to live up to his middle name: Tater. “When I was in Toledo, a lot of guys called me Tater,”

KANSAS CITY -- Uncle. The Tigers’ burgeoning injured list added another new member Sunday, and a key cog at that. Slugging outfielder Kerry Carpenter was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left shoulder sprain suffered crashing into the right-field sidewall at Kauffman Stadium on Bobby Witt Jr.’s inside-the-park

KANSAS CITY -- The Royals had a Nickelodeon Night promotion on Saturday at Kauffman Stadium, featuring not only a slime-style Royals jersey giveaway but people in the ballpark actually getting slimed, albeit by choice. As Bobby Witt Jr. raced around the bases on a ball down the right-field line that

KANSAS CITY -- Justin Verlander has almost a season’s worth of starts (24) at Kauffman Stadium over his career, second only to Cleveland’s Progressive Field amongst road parks for him. So maybe it was fitting that Verlander’s first simulated game on his road back to the Tigers’ rotation was here

KANSAS CITY -- The Tigers had enough good news from their injured starting pitchers Friday fair to look forward to getting their makeshift rotation closer to normal in the coming weeks. But the more Keider Montero pitches, the more he makes his case to remain a part of it. He

KANSAS CITY -- The news is good on Tarik Skubal, who underwent surgery on Wednesday to remove a loose body from his elbow. The timetable for the Cy Young winner’s return is still somewhat murky, but encouraging. Skubal is headed to the Tigers’ Spring Training facility in Lakeland, Fla., where

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DETROIT -- The biggest question surrounding Tarik Skubal right now is no longer where he might go in free agency next offseason, or whether the Tigers would trade him at the Deadline if they’re out of the AL Central race. It’s now: How much time will he miss while recovering

DETROIT -- Jack Flaherty was just about to begin his pre-start routine Wednesday when the Tigers announced that fellow starter Framber Valdez had accepted a five-game suspension for hitting Trevor Story on Tuesday. It didn’t have any impact on Flaherty’s outing, but it whittled the injury-ravaged Tigers rotation to two

DETROIT -- Amid injuries to Tarik Skubal, Casey Mize and Justin Verlander, another starting pitcher absence is the last thing the Tigers needed. But as soon as Framber Valdez was ejected from Tuesday’s game for hitting Trevor Story, it was inevitable. Valdez began serving a five-game suspension Wednesday night. Major

DETROIT -- Add another injury to the Tigers’ growing injured list, now up to 14 players. Second baseman Gleyber Torres was placed on the 10-day IL on Wednesday with a mild left oblique strain he sustained on Saturday. Torres had been considered day to day and he was seemingly progressing

DETROIT -- The Tigers need innings and zeros from Framber Valdez, thrust into the ace role with Tarik Skubal set to undergo elbow surgery and with his team coming off back-to-back bullpen games. On Tuesday, they got neither. And if Valdez receives a suspension for hitting Trevor Story and sparking

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DETROIT -- Two-time defending American League Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal will undergo arthroscopic surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow after a flare-up on Sunday night. Neither Skubal nor the Tigers would put a timetable on his return. A typical timetable for recovery from such a surgery is

DETROIT -- The last time Ty Madden pitched in a Major League game, he tossed two-thirds of an inning in mop-up duty in Game 1 of the 2024 American League Division Series in Cleveland. Madden was the third pitcher in a bullpen game started by Tyler Holton, so he knew

DETROIT -- Listen closely and you might still hear the remnants of those sighs of relief Tigers fans let out when Tarik Skubal’s injury scare turned out to be fleeting. For a moment last Wednesday night in Atlanta, as Skubal shook his left arm, grabbed his forearm and summoned catcher

DETROIT -- The Tigers invested big in a star-studded rotation to help them go for it in 2026. They picked up a big win Sunday night by taking a page out of manager A.J. Hinch’s “pitching chaos” playbook from two years ago, when they didn’t have enough starters to fill

DETROIT -- The Tigers entered Saturday with a taxed pitching staff and an injury-depleted roster, the latter of which only worsened with the third-inning exit of Gleyber Torres. With a bullpen game looming Sunday night, manager A.J. Hinch needed innings from his starter and early runs from his lineup. He

DETROIT -- Tigers second baseman Gleyber Torres had two hits in as many innings off Rangers starter Kumar Rocker Saturday night at Comerica Park, but then left the game with tightness in the left side, adding to Detroit’s rapidly growing injury list. Torres had an infield single in the first

DETROIT -- The injuries keep coming for the Tigers, this time depleting a bullpen that has been counted on for important outs and innings lately. The team placed late-inning reliever Will Vest on the 15-day injured list on Saturday with right lateral forearm inflammation. To fill Vest’s spot, the Tigers

DETROIT – The seemingly random cheers through the late innings Friday night at Comerica Park all had a purpose: With each bucket by the Pistons in Orlando, a subsection of Tigers fans following the NBA playoffs on their phone would raise a reaction, and an occasional “Deee-troit basketball” to boot.

Until last week’s run of five consecutive games with a home run, Spencer Torkelson’s last homer was last Sept. 20 against the Braves (actually, then-Braves reliever Pierce Johnson, the same reliever he homered against on Sunday in Cincinnati). He also homered Sept. 19 against the Braves and starter Bryce Elder

CINCINNATI – Kids dream about the moment Hao-Yu Lee had Sunday: Game on the line, stepping to the plate and hitting a go-ahead home run. Lee sort of dreamed about it, too.

CINCINNATI -- Spencer Torkelson began the week as a sub-.200 hitter without a home run for the season but with belief that the results would eventually match the metrics, and with a manager saying they wouldn’t abandon him. He ended the week in the Tigers’ record books For the fifth