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

CINCINNATI -- The last time Spencer Torkelson was on a roll like this, he was at peak Tork phenom at Arizona State. He had a lot of homer streaks as a Sun Devil, but he homered in four straight games near the end of his sophomore season, a 23-homer, 66-RBI

CINCINNATI -- The Tigers were sitting in the visitors' clubhouse at Great American Ball Park, doing crossword puzzles, playing cards, watching other games on TV while preparing for their own to eventually restart, when they heard the booming sounds from the field. They were fireworks, scheduled for after the game

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DETROIT -- Tarik Skubal hasn’t had much reason to flash frustration so far this season. But as the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner marched back into the dugout in the seventh inning following Blake Perkins’ game-tying two-run double, he had a moment. Skubal chucked his glove off the

DETROIT -- The Tigers have watched Spencer Torkelson follow a 31-homer season with a slow start at the plate in two of the past three seasons. They’ve also enjoyed the flip side. “He brings a different element,” manager A.J. Hinch said. “I mean, we can slug. Obviously, we can be

DETROIT -- Spencer Torkelson wasn’t worried, even if you understandably might have been worried for him. The metrics suggested his first home run of the season was coming. Just as important for him, the way he felt at the plate suggested the clock was ticking on the first Tork Bomb

DETROIT -- There’s an unwritten rule for position players who pitch in a loss, at least in the Tigers' clubhouse: They very rarely talk after the game, no matter how they perform. It’s nothing personal, just a manifestation of what is often literally a thankless role. If they’re pitching, it

DETROIT -- While Kevin McGonigle continues to impress at shortstop, the Tigers’ next highly rated shortstop prospects are moving up the developmental ladder. The club on Tuesday promoted No. 3 prospect Bryce Rainer from Single-A Lakeland to High-A West Michigan, and moved No. 9 Jordan Yost to Lakeland to begin

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DETROIT -- Salvador Perez’s go-ahead three-run home run brought the rain. The storm clouds were looming behind the home-plate stands at Comerica Park, and the tarp practically followed Perez around the bases as he celebrated his 30th career homer against the Tigers. The 46-minute rain delay -- one of two

DETROIT -- Javier Báez has a well-earned reputation as a magician when applying tags. For his latest trick, however, he eluded a tag, sliding around and over Salvador Perez’s glove at home plate to open the scoring for the Tigers in Wednesday’s 2-1 win over the Royals at Comerica Park.

DETROIT -- Wenceel Pérez had been waiting for his first hit of the season. Much like his first Major League callup, it came at an unexpected time, but a good one. The switch-hitting outfielder had been on deck to pinch-hit for an injured Zach McKinstry against Royals lefty reliever Daniel

DETROIT -- Kevin McGonigle’s reaction to his first Major League home run was a hint. “It meant everything, especially doing it in front of the city,” McGonigle said Sunday. “I love this place already. Looking forward to a long future here. I just can't believe I was able to do

DETROIT -- Kenley Jansen has never put his individual milestones over the value of winning, not since joining the Tigers as a free agent over the winter, not when he tied Lee Smith for third on the all-time saves list earlier this month. On Tuesday, as the Tigers celebrated their

DETROIT -- Hall of Fame manager Jim Leyland used to say that the true test of a baserunner is whether he can swipe a bag when everyone in the ballpark knows he’s going. The value of Zach McKinstry on Tuesday night was in taking home when no one else seemed

DETROIT -- Tigers center fielder Parker Meadows underwent surgery on Monday for a broken left arm he sustained in Thursday’s outfield collision with Riley Greene. Meadows suffered a fracture in the radius bone in his left forearm in the collision, as well as a concussion and a laceration that required

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DETROIT – Justin Verlander will not be ready to return when he’s eligible to be reinstated from the 15-day injured list on Thursday. But the Tigers’ veteran right-hander is trending toward a Minor League rehab start or simulated game that should put him in line to rejoin Detroit’s rotation shortly