DETROIT — When you’re hot, you’re hot. It’s like the Blue Jays are finding fun new ways to win games just to keep themselves entertained. They’ve found an identity in this style of offense that goes drip, drip, boom. Thursday night’s opener at Comerica Park in Detroit was skipping along without much of a story, but then the Tigers decided …
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By Grant Brisbee, Chad Jennings and Levi Weaver Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. Ah, the start of the second half. Inexperienced baseball fans pay far too much attention to the first week of the season, but …
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Detroit Tigers (59-36) vs. Seattle Mariners (49-45) Time/Place: 1:10 p.m., Comerica ParkSB Nation Site: Lookout Landing Media: , MLB.TV, Tigers Radio NetworkPitching Matchup: RHP Casey Mize (9-2, 2.63 ERA) vs. RHP George Kirby (3-4, 4.22 ERA) Game 96 Pitching Matchup Player IP K% BB% FIP fWAR Player IP K% BB% FIP fWAR Mize 85.2 20.7 5.9 3.79 1.3 Kirby 49.0 …
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Detroit Tigers (59-35) vs. Seattle Mariners (48-45) Time/Place: 7:10 p.m., Comerica ParkSB Nation Site: Lookout Landing Media: Apple TV+, MLB.TV, Tigers Radio NetworkPitching Matchup: LHP Tarik Skubal (10-2, 2.02 ERA) vs. RHP Luis Castillo (5-5, 3.31 ERA) Game 95 Pitching Matchup Player IP K% BB% FIP fWAR Player IP K% BB% FIP fWAR Skubal 116.0 33.9 3.2 1.87 4.7 Castillo …
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