DETROIT -- Comerica Park’s auxiliary clubhouse hadn’t been used for media purposes for years, since the Tigers’ last run of playoff appearances. When the Tigers rode their late-season run into the postseason, it held press conferences once again, accommodating a larger audience than their regular-season interview room. On Monday morning,

CLEVELAND -- The last time Tarik Skubal allowed multiple runs in a game, the Tigers were in Oakland on Sept. 6, still fighting to stay over .500. Skubal gave up two runs to the A’s in a wild extra-inning affair, and Detroit fell back to break-even. The last time Skubal

CLEVELAND -- Emmanuel Clase kept the receipts. The Guardians’ All-Star closer had seethed at himself in the days after surrendering a decisive homer to red-hot Kerry Carpenter in Game 2 of this American League Division Series vs. the Tigers -- and he allowed all the outside noise in, leveraging it

CLEVELAND -- As Lane Thomas' punctuating grand slam was sailing into the left-field bleachers on Saturday afternoon, Guardians fan Matt Coleman saw it all the way through and into the glove that he borrowed from his son earlier in the day. And with zero hesitation, the Progressive Field season-ticket holder

CLEVELAND -- It was like a scene from your favorite baseball movie, one that you know will have a happy ending even when it’s hard to envision how it’ll get there. The plot had just taken a turn for the worse. Although the Guardians scored the tying run, it came

CLEVELAND -- On Saturday morning, Kerry Carpenter hobbled from the Tigers’ clubhouse to the batting cages at Progressive Field ahead of Game 5 of the American League Division Series. Just hours before first pitch, Carpenter and the Tigers were unsure if he would be available for the deciding game after

After Friday’s win-or-go-home Game 5 in the NLDS, we get another one on Saturday. Two AL Central foes who have battled for years, but never in the postseason, get one game to decide who heads to the Bronx for ALCS Game 1 on Monday … and who goes home for

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CLEVELAND -- The last time Tarik Skubal pitched at Progressive Field, he had what we’ll call a very healthy interaction with Guardians fans on his way off the mound after a key double play in Game 2 of the American League Division Series. The video went viral. The reaction from

CLEVELAND -- Matthew Boyd tried to talk through the emotions that were clearly starting to overwhelm him. He uttered the word “gratitude.” He took a breath, and his mind wandered to all the days he spent working his way back from Tommy John surgery this winter to get to this

CLEVELAND -- The big American League Central matchup will come down to the wire. The AL Division Series between the Tigers and Guardians returns to Cleveland for a decisive Game 5 on Saturday afternoon as the two battle it out for a chance to face the Yankees in the ALCS.

CLEVELAND -- The Guardians have played at drastically opposite ends of the spectrum in this American League Division Series against the Tigers, creating quite the quandary on how they’ll show up for a winner-take-all Game 5 on Saturday at Progressive Field. The Guards ran away to a dominant victory in

Major League Baseball on Friday announced that Saturday’s decisive Game Five of the American League Division Series presented by Booking.com between the Cleveland Guardians and the Detroit Tigers has been rescheduled from 8:08 p.m. (ET) to 1:08 p.m. (ET) due to the forecasted inclement weather in Cleveland. The 1:08 p.m.

DETROIT -- As members of the Tigers lineup have walked up to the plate throughout this postseason, casual fans may have been stumped. After all, who is Wenceel Pérez, or Zach McKinstry, or Andy Ibáñez? The baseball gods don’t care how big of a name you are. The Tigers have

DETROIT -- David Fry turned to his dugout and saw his teammates leaping over the railings, throwing their equipment in the air and jumping up and down in sheer joy. He slapped first-base coach Sandy Alomar Jr.’s hand, stepped on first and then everything went black. Fry had just experienced

DETROIT -- One was seemingly silent for much of this American League Division Series, the other was seeking to stage his redemption. And as the dust settled on a back-and-forth Game 4 that featured four lead changes, the Guardians avoided elimination on the shoulders of their best hitter and best

DETROIT -- The Tigers mixed and matched and got to the matchups they wanted, and the matchup that the data suggested. They just didn’t get the result. “It wasn't lack of conviction or anything like that. Just didn't execute it,” Beau Brieske said of David Fry’s go-ahead home run in

DETROIT -- After scoring in the bottom of the sixth inning of Detroit's 5-4 loss to the Guardians in Game 4 of the American League Division Series Thursday at Comerica Park, Tigers designated hitter Kerry Carpenter hobbled into the dugout and down the steps to the clubhouse after tweaking his

DETROIT -- While the Tigers’ magical 2024 season rolls on, they’re keeping an eye on the Spring Training complex and support staff in Lakeland, Fla., one of the areas hit hard by Hurricane Milton Wednesday night. While the team is still checking on staff members, Joker Marchant Stadium and the

After a full, long day of playoff baseball, the American League takes center stage on Thursday, with two teams facing elimination: The Guardians, who ruled their division this year only to see a Midwestern rival bum rush them at the season’s end, and the Royals, who have reached the World

DETROIT -- Tigers manager A.J. Hinch looked toward Jake Rogers before he led off the third inning and told him simply: “Get a hit.” Rogers listened. Detroit's catcher led off the inning with a double down the left-field line and scored on a Matt Vierling sacrifice fly three batters later,

DETROIT -- Stephen Vogt will be on a shortlist, if not the favorite, for the American League Manager of the Year Award when it’s bestowed next month. But as Wednesday's Game 3 of the ALDS showed, the postseason is a completely different beast, where all decisions loom large -- and

DETROIT -- For a fleeting moment Wednesday, A.J. Hinch looked like he might take a day off from pitching chaos. Keider Montero needed just six pitches to retire the top of the Guardians' lineup to open Game 3 of the AL Division Series, the first postseason game at Comerica Park

DETROIT -- All the Guardians’ wiggle room is gone. A 3-0 loss to the Tigers in Game 3 of the American League Division Series on Wednesday has caused Thursday to be a win-or-go-home scenario. Maybe a young team like this would crumble under that type of pressure. But this group