After two straight playoff appearances in 2024 and 2025, the Detroit Tigers had expectations for the 2026 MLB season. Almost halfway through now, and they have not quite lived up to the preseason hype.
Toledo held off a comeback bid from Rochester on Sunday to win 9-6 and end the series tied at three games apiece. Ty Madden got the start. He had some command issues with three walks, but he only gave up one hit over 2 2/3 innings.
The Detroit Tigers have one of the game's most valuable potential trade chips right now in two-time reigning Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal. It doesn't take much to see that.
For the third time this month, the Detroit Tigers have won a series against a first-place team — this time, a three-game sweep of the Chicago White Sox at Comerica Park punctuated by a 5-4 walk-off victory in extra innings on Sunday afternoon.
How many of the starting pitchers in the MLB Live-Ball Era (since 1920) to strike out at least 180 batters in their first 30 starts can you name in six minutes?
One prominent MLB team may be crashing the party for Tarik Skubal. Rival executives have predicted that the Atlanta Braves will be the one sleeper team for the Detroit Tigers ace Skubal, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reported on Sunday.
Not every all-timer has instant success at the next level. For many baseball players, it takes a few bumps in the road out of the gate before they ever reach stardom.
Framber Valdez has never recorded a regular-season victory over the New York Yankees. The Detroit Tigers left-hander will seek a breakthrough in the opener of a three-game home series on Monday night.
The Detroit Tigers needed to play good baseball heading into a 10-game homestand that could ultimately seal their fate if it went poorly. So far, the Tigers have shown up when they needed to.
Matt Vierling hit a bases-loaded single in the 10th inning to drive in the game-winning run, as the host Detroit Tigers completed a three-game sweep of the Chicago White Sox with a 5-4 victory on Sunday.
The Tigers staged quite the comeback for an extra innings win against the Sox, going 5-4 in 10 innings. The Tigers were looking to complete their series sweep against the White Sox on a fine-looking Father’s Day at Comerica Park.
It happens every so often that a pitcher can get out of an inning with 10 or fewer pitches, but rarely does it happen back-to-back-to-back in the same game.
The Detroit Tigers have been a disappointment so far this year on the heels of last year’s playoff run, currently sitting at 32-44 on the 2026 MLB season ahead of Sunday’s series finale against the Chicago White Sox.
The only two things rarer in modern-day baseball than the four-homer game is the Triple Crown and the unassisted triple play. The former is, of course, done over an entire season, while there's a large level of lucky in the unassisted triple play.
With Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal receiving lots of trade interest, yet another team is expressing interest in him. That is the Atlanta Braves, who look to run away with the National League East this season.
Far too often, the managers in Major League Baseball receive unwarranted criticism and flat-out hate over how a team is performing. Most of the time, it is unjustified.
The Detroit Tigers took the second of this weekend’s three-game series against the Chicago White Sox with a 4-1 victory at Comerica Park on Saturday afternoon.
The Detroit Tigers have had a tough season so far, with the team mired in a losing record. Detroit infielder Spencer Torkelson has also been going through a tough time.
This is not how the Detroit Tigers and Justin Verlander wanted this to go down. Signed to a one-year deal in the offseason, the reunion of the Tigers and one of their best aces of all-time was supposed to be a productive one.
Justin Verlander’s long-anticipated return to the Detroit Tigers’ rotation has hit another major obstacle. The 43-year-old right-hander was scratched from his scheduled start on Sunday against the Chicago White Sox after suffering a left hamstring strain during a bullpen session in Houston on Wednesday.
The Detroit Tigers were expected to activate pitcher Justin Verlander to start Sunday's game against the White Sox. Instead, Verlander's return to the Tigers will be delayed.
Even though all signs point to the two-time Cy Young award winner being dealt at the deadline (Aug. 3), Skubal still believes the Tigers have what it takes to turn their season around.
The Tigers are going to recall infielder/outfielder Trei Cruz, reports Ari Alexander of 7News Boston. He’ll be making his major league debut as soon as he gets into a game.
The Detroit Tigers are performing much better on the field recently after their drastic run last month. Wenceel Perez also put together a solid run to break out of his massive slump to start the 2026 season.
Detroit Tigers infielder Colt Keith had an incredible game Monday against the Houston Astros. The 24-year-old former fifth-round pick put together the best performance of his career, smashing three home runs.