This really shouldn't be that surprising. The Tigers have one of the better core groups in baseball now, and while their rotation has question marks due to injury and inexperience, it's certainly a pretty talented group with Framber Valdez as the veteran, and Jackson Jobe, Troy Melton, Keider Montero, River Ryan, and Reese Olson lined up behind the veteran lefty. Obviously they need to build a much better bullpen, but this shouldn't really be that hard. We'll see how hard the front office decides to make it.
The Tigers were 14th in run scoring, and 11th in team wRC+ in 2026, despite getting gutted for a good six weeks by a huge wave of injuries from mid-April through May. Max Clark has only just arrived, while Hao-Yu Lee and Eduardo Valencia broke out with the bats in the second half. They still have plenty of young hitting talent coming behind them as well. They were also 6th best in team ERA and 10th best in team fielding independent pitching (FIP). The defense got better as Clark and other young outfielders were added to the mix. It would really help that cause if John Peck can insert himself into the mix next year.
The Brewers are number one on the power rankings, as you'd expect. The Dodgers and Yankees check in second and third. The Rays, Red Sox, and Braves round out the 4-6 slots, with the Tigers in seventh.
Here is ESPN's argument for the Tigers in 2027.
1. Their plus-71 run differential was fourth in the AL, not that far behind the Rays (plus-86) or Red Sox (plus-78), and that's a positive indicator for the following season.

#rays #veteran

This really shouldn't be that surprising. The Tigers have one of the better core groups in baseball now, and while their rotation has question marks due to injury and inexperience, it's certainly a pretty talented group with Framber Valdez as the veteran, and Jackson Jobe, Troy Melton, Keider Montero, River Ryan, and Reese Olson lined up behind the veteran lefty. Obviously they need to build a much better bullpen, but this shouldn't really be that hard. We'll see how hard the front office decides to make it.
The Tigers were 14th in run scoring, and 11th in team wRC+ in 2026, despite getting gutted for a good six weeks by a huge wave of injuries from mid-April through May. Max Clark has only just arrived, while Hao-Yu Lee and Eduardo Valencia broke out with the bats in the second half. They still have plenty of young hitting talent coming behind them as well. They were also 6th best in team ERA and 10th best in team fielding independent pitching (FIP). The defense got better as Clark and other young outfielders were added to the mix. It would really help that cause if John Peck can insert himself into the mix next year.
The Brewers are number one on the power rankings, as you'd expect. The Dodgers and Yankees check in second and third. The Rays, Red Sox, and Braves round out the 4-6 slots, with the Tigers in seventh.
Here is ESPN's argument for the Tigers in 2027.
1. Their plus-71 run differential was fourth in the AL, not that far behind the Rays (plus-86) or Red Sox (plus-78), and that's a positive indicator for the following season.

#tigers #team #clark

This one had everything. Troy Melton struggled and got knocked out early, but the bullpen managed to bend without breaking. Meanwhile, the young Tigers hitters were centre stage as they fought back repeatedly with good at-bats late in this one. Kenley Jansen picked up his 496th major league save to wrap up the victory.
Monday night's first of three at the Rogers Centre featured Melton against right-hander José Soriano. The Blue Jays have had almost as strange a season as the Tigers. Struggling through the first half, they moved long time top starter Kevin Gausman, but acquired Soriano at the deadline as well, and have kept themselves in the thick of the wild card race.
Things didn't start off too well as the Tigers quickly went 1-2-3 in the first, and Melton immediately dug himself a hole. Brett Bateman led off by slashing a single the opposite way past a diving Hao-Yu Lee for a leadoff single. Bateman appeared to be thrown out stealing second on a pitch that was called a ball and incorrectly challenged by Dillon Dingler to walk George Springer. So everyone was safe, and after Vladimir Guerrero Jr. grounded out to advance the runners, Alejandro Kirk singled home Bateman for a 1-0 lead.
Melton didn't help his cause against Nathan Lukes by yanking a wild pitch to score Springer, but he retired Lukes and Kazuma Okamoto flew out to Clark to end the first inning. 2-0 Blue Jays.
A Dingler strikeout started the second inning, and Max Clark and Brett Callahan grounded out.

#melton #soriano #brett

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The Green Bay Packers made a move to bolster their wide receiver room on Monday, bringing up a familiar face from coach Matt LaFleur's team's practice squad. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Green Bay has called up receiver Bo Melton to the team's active 53-man roster. Melton has experimented at cornerback in the past and will join the Packers as a wide receiver.
Melton was drafted in the seventh round of the 2022 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks and was briefly compared to Jaguars star Travis Hunter for his two-way play. He was signed off the Seahawks' practice squad in 2022 and has stuck with Green Bay as a backup. Melton had his best season that year with 16 catches for 218 yards and a touchdown. He has 29 receptions for 426 yards and two touchdowns in his Packers career.
Melton will join a team that is still reeling from a 39-22 loss to the Minnesota Vikings in Week 1. Green Bay failed to live up to LaFleur's standards against the Vikings and will soon look to rebound in a road game on September 20 against the New York Jets. LaFleur is squarely on the hot seat in some circles, and a loss to the Jets would start to make it feel even more uncomfortable.
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GREEN BAY − One day after the Green Bay Packers released wide receiver Bo Melton and signed him to the practice squad, they elevated him to the active roster for the team's Week 1 contest against the Minnesota Vikings.
A core member of special teams and a depth piece in the wide receiver room, Melton along with linebacker Kristian Welch were elevated from the practice squad to the 48-man roster for game day.

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GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Packers are releasing receiver Bo Melton in a roster management move, but he's still expected to play this week's opener against the Minnesota Vikings.
Melton, a fringe receiver but core special teamer, is expected to sign to the team's practice squad. The team plans to add him back to the 53-man roster following Week 1. Melton has four years of credited service so he is not subject to waiver claims by other teams.
The Packers have done similar roster maneuvers in the past, including releasing long snapper Matt Orzech only to later return him. The corresponding move for Melton's spot is not yet known.
Melton has been a fixture on the Packers' roster since 2023. A natural receiver, the team experimented with him as a cornerback last season, but Melton still caught four passes for 107 yards in 2025.
His primary contribution is special teams, where first-year coordinator Cam Achord highlighted his ability as a gunner on punt coverage in camp.

#melton #receiver #green #expected

With a quarterback many view as one of the best in the NFL entering the 2026 season, the Green Bay Packers are getting some extra attention on their wide receiver room. Jordan Love's group of weapons downfield will clearly be integral to the team's success, and that also highlights the importance of chemistry within the unit.
Green Bay has kept six wide receivers after the final roster cuts last Sunday: Christian Watson, Jaylen Reed, Matthew Golden, Skyy Moore, Bo Melton, and rookie J. Michael Sturdivant.
Reed recently opened up about the wide receiver room situation, noting that the group has gotten tighter in the offseason.
Dec 31, 2023; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings cornerback Akayleb Evans (21) and Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jayden Reed (11) in action during the game at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports
On Wednesday, Reed opened up about how things stand in the wide receiver room in terms of camaraderie.

#wide #opened

The NBA world wants to see Stephen Curry continue contending for championships. Unfortunately for Curry, the Golden State Warriors are not considered competitive in the 2026-27 season. The Warriors retained their core from the previous season and did not add a new star player.
Golden State retained veteran big men Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford and Draymond Green. They also re-signed De'Anthony Melton and Gary Payton II on short-term deals. Guard Brandon Williams and seasoned forward Georges Niang joined the Warriors this summer.
Because of the team's near-passive offseason, former six-time NFL Pro Bowl star Chad Johnson suggested Curry should move on. On Tuesday's episode of "Nightcap," Johnson said the NBA star should end his career on a high note.
Apr 1, 2026; San Francisco, California, USA; Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) talks with guard Gary Payton II (0) during a timeout against the San Antonio Spurs in the fourth quarter at the Chase Center. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images
"Are you sure he's a one-jersey guy?" he said. "Knowing you don't have a chance, don't you want to finish your career with the opportunity to win a ring again? Why not end it on a high note? Golden State is not prepared to compete in the West, let alone win a championship."

#Warriors #star #gary #johnson

The Twins went with an opener tonight, Andrew Morris got the first inning with Connor Prielipp taking over from there. It worked out well, as you can see from the score in the ***** le, as the Tigers only managed one run in the first, with Prielipp shutting them out in his five innings tonight.
Kody Clemens wasted no time tying the game up with his 24th homer of the year, a solo shot to right in the bottom of the first inning.
Tigers' starter Troy Melton held the Twins in check until the fifth inning. A walk and a double put two in scoring position for Walker Jenkins. He grounded into the drawn-in infield, Trevor Larnach got into a run-down going home, and the catcher threw it into left field allowing 2 to score on the error. Luke Keaschall put the Twins up 4-1 with an RBI double, capping off a 3 run inning.
Then the Twins scored 10 in the 6th, starting with an out. It went something like this unreadable sentence:
Josh Bell single, Larnach hit by pitch, Royce Lewis three run homer, Kaelen Culpepper double, Walker Jenkins walk, Keaschall single, Brooks Lee sac-fly-RBI, Kody Clemens walk, Ryan Jeffers three run homer, Josh Bell walk, Trevor Larnach single, Royce Lewis single, Kaelen Culpepper 2 run single, and finally Jenkins grounded out to end the inning. That monster inning put the Twins up 14-1, which is a pretty comfortable place to be in a baseball game, I feel.

#single #jenkins #larnach #double

The Arizona Cardinals have two new injuries to starters to know about. They held a joint practice on Wednesday with the Green Bay Packers leading up to their preseason finale on Friday. Two starters previously healthy were not out there.
Right guard Isaiah Adams didn't even make the trip to Green Bay. He has a knee injury of some sort, but, per head coach Mike LaFleur, it isn't serious. "We kept him back," he said on Wednesday. 'He'll be day-to-day. He's got a little bit of a knee."
He was not on the field on Monday in Arizona, either. Jon Gaines was in there at right guard instead.
Cornerback Will Johnson also didn't practice on Wednesday. His injury is not known. That gave Max Melton and Denzel Burke, both battling for a starting job opposite Johnson to be on the field at the same time.
The day-to-day nature of Adams' injury is interesting with the context that he didn't even travel with the team.

#didn 't #right

In my mind, I had this game in the loss column even before first pitch.
The Rays offense looked half asleep yesterday against a lesser pitcher, and today they would be facing Troy Melton, he of the 1.86 ERA. Those of you with good memories will recall that Melton had pitched a gem against the Rays back in June, going eight innings and scattering a few hits. He's a pitcher, Brian Anderson reminded us, who is good across the game but actually gets better second and third time through the line up, so it's not like you can just wait until he tires out to get your offense going.
And for the Rays, Freddy Peralta had looked a little better in recent starts but you really had to squint to see the effective pitcher he'd been prior to this year.
So just based on the pitching matchup, this game had the worst win chances for the Rays of the series.
Of course, then, they won. Because you never know with baseball.

#pitcher #melton #good #better

Detroit Tigers starter Troy Melton did his part in an afternoon pitchers duel, save for one early inning that put his squad behind for good.
Despite another quality start from Melton, the Tigers lost, 3-0, to the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday, Aug. 26, at Comerica Park in Detroit. The loss gave the Rays the series win and dropped the Tigers to 62-71.
It was Melton's ninth quality start of the season, as the righty allowed three runs over seven innings but left with the loss, his third of the year. Melton's efficient outing didn't help the Tigers match Tampa Bay starter Freddy Peralta, who threw six scoreless innings in his best start since the Rays acquired him at the trade deadline from the New York Mets.
The Rays scored two runs in the second inning, which turned out to be all the offense they needed to secure the win. Meanwhile, the Tigers recorded just two total hits and didn't bring a single runner into scoring position.
And the challenge only gets greater for the Tigers. After a day off on Thursday, Aug. 27, Detroit hosts the back-to-back World Series-winning Los Angeles Dodgers in a three-game set, with a familiar friend taking the hill on Friday, Aug. 28, for the defending champions.

#melton #starter #quality

Steve Kerr will have a former Arizona guard under his tutelage this NBA season.
Brandon Williams has signed a one-year, $2.6 million contract with the Golden State Warriors, ESPN's Shams Charania reported Tuesday.
The former Wildcats point guard is coming off a career-best season with Dallas Mavericks in which he averaged 13 points and 3.9 **** ists in 22 minutes per game. Williams appeared in 66 games with Dallas after spending the previous two seasons on two-way deals.
The 26-year-old debuted with Portland in 2021 after going undrafted out of college. Williams missed his sophomore season at Arizona due to a knee injury and spent the following year preparing for a professional career.
Williams, a Los Angeles native, is heading back to his home state to play for a Warriors franchise that has fallen on hard times in recent years. Williams will compete with De'Anthony Melton for the backup point guard role behind Stephen Curry.

#year #state #former

KANSAS CITY, MO - Suddenly, Detroit Tigers pitcher Troy Melton didn't look comfortable.
He stomped on the mound in Kauffman Stadium, trying to fix his landing spot. He knelt behind the rubber and scraped at his cleats. The usually unflappable pitcher seemed out of sorts at the end of his outing in a 5-2 loss to the Kansas City Royals o Friday, Aug. 21. He gave up a pair of home runs, which was odd on its own – he had given up only one dinger in his last eight starts.
So, that was weird. But now, here's a little perspective: He ended up giving up just two earned runs in 5⅔ innings and it felt like a bad start, which tells you how impressive he has been.
But on this night, the Tigers were doomed by the long ball.

#kansas #runs #melton

KANSAS CITY, MO - Suddenly, Detroit Tigers pitcher Troy Melton didn't look comfortable.
He stomped on the mound in Kauffman Stadium, trying to fix his landing spot. He knelt behind the rubber and scraped at his cleats. The usually unflappable pitcher seemed out of sorts at the end of his outing in a 5-2 loss to the Kansas City Royals o Friday, Aug. 21. He gave up a pair of home runs, which was odd on its own – he had given up only one dinger in his last eight starts.
So, that was weird. But now, here's a little perspective: He ended up giving up just two earned runs in 5⅔ innings and it felt like a bad start, which tells you how impressive he has been.
But on this night, the Tigers were doomed by the long ball.
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#runs #melton

The Tigers' woes continue as they dropped their Friday game to the Royals 5-2.
After a, shall we say, unpleasant series against the Pirates, the Tigers had a day to rest and reflect before heading to Kansas City to take on the Royals. Hopefully a break in the city of Hallmark and BBQ would be just what the doctor ordered to get the Tigers back in a winning mindset. To open the weekend series, they had Troy Melton on the mound, and he was up against Noah Cameron for the Royals.
Kevin McGonigle got a two-out single in the first, but the Tigers weren't able to convert the early baserunner. In the home half, Bobby Witt Jr. singled with one out, but Melton turned around to induce two outs in the next two at-bats to keep the Royals off the board.
In the second, Spencer Torkelson got a one-out walk. He was then eliminated in a force out off the bat of Ben Malgeri, and a lineout ended the inning. It was another one-out walk in the bottom of the inning, this time for Nick Loftin. With two outs, Isaac Collins singled. But even with two baserunners on, the Royals couldn't convert a run.
The Tigers continued getting runners on, as Hao-Yu Lee got a two-out single, but as with the previous innings, they couldn't manage to get him home. Melton managed to keep the Royals off the bases entirely with a 1-2-3 bottom of the inning.

#melton #series

After playing just six games a season ago, De'Anthony Melton had a much healthier campaign during the 2025-26 season, making 49 appearances. In those games, Melton posted a career-high 12.3 points per game to go along with 3.2 rebounds, 2.6 ****** ists, 1.6 steals and 0.4 blocks. However, Melton's 3-point shooting numbers were uncharacteristically low, converting on less than 30% of his attempts despite a career average of more than 35%.
Even still, Melton's defensive impact is what made him special, causing opposing teams havoc on the perimeter. So much so that Melton was recognized by NBA 2K27 for being one of the league's best pickpockets. With Stephen Curry fully healthy and back in the fold, Golden State will rely on Melton off the bench for defense, 3-point shooting and secondary shot creation.
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The Detroit Tigers welcomed back an old friend and hung tough with a first-place opponent, but couldn't find the go-ahead run they needed.
Despite a strong performance at the plate and on defense by Tigers catcher Eduardo Valencia, they fell 4-3 to the Chicago White Sox on Saturday, Aug. 15, at Comerica Park in Detroit.
Tigers starter Troy Melton, the club's best pitcher this season, allowed three runs over 4⅓ innings, marking his shortest start of the season, in a game marked by inconsistency and bad luck with missed defensive plays. It was just the second time this season Melton has allowed at least three earned runs in a game, with his nine hits allowed a career-high for the second-year starter.
The game also featured the first appearance for Chicago catcher Jake Rogers in a White Sox uniform, with the former Tiger getting a standing ovation during his first plate appearance.
The Tigers offense for the second game in a row was paced by a rookie, with Valencia hitting an RBI single in the first inning and a solo home run in the fourth to keep the Tigers in step with the White Sox. Valencia also threw a runner out in the top of the ninth inning and represented the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the ninth, but struck out looking in his final at-bat.

#plate

The Detroit Tigers have unveiled a dramatically altered starting lineup for Saturday afternoon's critical game against the Chicago White Sox at Comerica Park.
Facing left-hander Anthony Kay, manager A.J. Hinch has moved Hao-Yu Lee into the No. 2 spot, placed Dillon Dingler at designated hitter and moved Kevin McGonigle down from No. 3 to cleanup. Rookie catcher Eduardo Valencia will bat fifth and handle Troy Melton behind the plate.
Detroit enters the game at 60-62, trailing first-place Chicago by 3.5 games in the American League Central.
Here is how the Tigers will line up against Kay:
Gleyber Torres, 2B

#white

The Detroit Tigers have reached the point where every loss changes the temperature of the season.
After falling 9-5 to the Chicago White Sox on Friday night at Comerica Park, Detroit enters Saturday with a 60-62 record and a 3.5-game deficit in the American League Central. The Wild Card race is tightening, too. Baltimore, Minnesota and Texas are part of a crowded group capable of turning one difficult week into a serious postseason problem.
Now the Tigers hand the baseball to Troy Melton, one of their hottest pitchers, with their season beginning to wobble.
No pressure, kid.
Melton enters Saturday's start riding 20 consecutive scoreless innings across his past three appearances. He has recorded three straight quality starts and produced a 1.46 ERA during that stretch.

#season #three #white #Friday

For the third consecutive series, the Giants have won the opener and lost the last two.
While quality pitching, along with some shoddy defense, couldn't sustain itself over the entire game on Saturday, blame for Sunday's extra inning 3-1 loss rests solely on the shoulders of San Francisco's hitters.
After Willy Adames's 5th inning solo shot on Friday night, the offense had laid nothing but eggs against Detroit pitchers. Jackson Jobe and Co. held them scoreless yesterday. A couple of fortunate breaks on ******* in play and a throwing error helped the Giants complete their only circuit of the bases against a dominant Troy Melton (fun fact: he's a former teammate with Casey Schmitt at SDSU). But when the game came down to the wire, the final 7 hitters from the 8th to the 10th innings did this: ground into a bases loaded double play, then strike out six times.
Over the last 21 innings of this series, the offense scored just one run.
A run that was nearly enough for Logan Webb, who stifled a hot Tigers team over 8 innings. The work was fast too. Webb pitched at a brutal pace and attacked the zone with 66% strike-percentage. From his main trio of offerings, the sweeper was Sunday's star. He leaned on it heavily on his first trip down the order, and overall, nearly half (14 of 30) of his breaking ******* went for called strikes. Clearly Detroit hitters were sitting on the change-up and sinker and Webb played coy with those main offerings, withholding them early in the count, feathering them in more and more the deeper he got into the game.

#webb

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hao-Yu Lee drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning with a pinch-hit single and the Detroit Tigers beat the San Fracisco Giants 3-1 on Sunday in the rubber game of their series.
Spencer Torkelson singled off Sam Hentges (1-4) after Lee's base hit scored automatic runner Riley Greene for a 2-1 lead. Max Clark's groundout added an insurance run.
Kenley Jansen (3-4) struck out the side in the ninth for the win. Tyler Holton pitched a perfect 10th for his second save as the Tigers finished 7-2 on a three-city trip to the West Coast.
Detroit starter Troy Melton allowed an unearned run on four hits and a walk over six-plus innings, striking out five. The right-hander hasn't permitted an earned run in his last 20 innings. Melton has given up two runs or fewer in 12 of his 13 starts this season.
Logan Webb yielded one run on four hits and a walk over eight innings for the Giants, throwing 100 pitches.

#Giants #melton #walk #francisco

The Tigers didn't need eight runs in this one. Troy Melton spun another shutout performance, and great work from Kenley Jansen and Tyler Holton carried the day late. The Tigers broke a 1-1 tie in the top of the 10th inning with a clutch knock from Hao-Yu Lee, and Holton shut the door to wrap up a 7-9 road trip.
Right-hander Troy Melton has busied himself recently by staking a claim as the Tigers #1 starter. He came into this one looking to extend his scoreless innings run. Melton last allowed a run on July 23 against the Royals. He blanked the Orioles and the Mariners each for seven innings in his last two outings. He'd have some tough competition in Logan Webb.
The two starters really did lock up in an old fashioned pitchers duel. Spencer Torkelson singled in the second inning for the game's first hit, but he was stranded. Drew Gilbert smoked a triple off of Melton with two outs in the bottom of the second, but Melton got Daniel Susac to ground out to Colt Keith at third to turn them away.
In the bottom of the fourth, Melton finally got into some trouble as Willy Adames led off with a single. Melton struck out Osleivis Basabe, but Drew Gilbert lifted a relatively shallow fly ball to Zach McKinstry in right, and the versatile utilityman cut down Basabe at the plate to end the inning. That play really took the wind out of the Giants sails.
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#troy #holton #gilbert

It's rubber match time. The San Francisco Giants won on Friday, and the Detroit Tigers won on Saturday. Now we find out who wins the series!
Righty Logan Webb takes the mound for the Giants, and makes his 21st start. The three-time All-Star is 7-7 on the year, with a 3.74 ERA, a 3.30 FIP, and 101 strikeouts to 31 walks in 125 innings. He's coming off an excellent start in which he struck out eight Texas Rangers batters over six shutout innings.
For the Tigers, it's right-hander Troy Melton, a 25-year old in his second season. Melton has been excellent in 12 starts, posting a 7-1 record with a 1.58 ERA, a 3.78 FIP, and 64 strikeouts to 23 walks in 74 innings. He's pitched seven scoreless innings in each of his last two starts.
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#Giants #tigers

Most of the baseball world had its attention fixed on Tarik Skubal Tuesday night.
The former Detroit Tigers ace made his first start in Dodger blue against the Chicago Cubs, allowing two runs across six innings in a 5-1 Los Angeles loss.
Back in Seattle, one of Skubal's former teammates delivered the performance Tigers fans will remember.
Troy Melton was absolutely brilliant.
The young right-hander shut out the Mariners across seven innings, allowing only three hits while helping Detroit pull closer in an increasingly crowded American League playoff race.

#former #dodger

SEATTLE (AP) — It's only fitting that the last Detroit Tigers starter to match Troy Melton's most recent feat is no longer on the team.
Melton's latest strong outing, which came in an 8-0 victory against the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night, made it back-to-back starts of seven innings with three or fewer hits allowed. The previous Tigers starter to do that before Melton was Tarik Skubal, who is now employed by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Melton doesn't have the resume as Skubal, the two-time reigning AL Cy Young Award winner. But since coming off the injured list in late May, Melton has been even better than his former teammate, and again looked like one of baseball's best pitchers Tuesday.
Even after Detroit dealt away Skubal and former No. 1 overall draft pick Casey Mize, Melton said he hasn't felt any added pressure to step up in the starting rotation.
"I'm just trying to get people out," Melton said. "Yeah, obviously (we) lost two pretty good players. So, got to find a way to replace them however we can."

#melton #skubal #Seattle

SEATTLE – The last time the Detroit Tigers played here at T-Mobile Park, their season ended in the ALDS after 15 grueling innings. Not that they were worried about returning to the scene of last season's postseason heartbreak.
They're worried about other things now, like catching the teams ahead of them in the Wild Card race in the American League. Well, one of the teams that was ahead of them.
Because after the Tigers beat the Seattle Mariners, 8-0, on Tuesday, Aug. 4., the Tigers (55-58) had jumped half a game ahead of the Mariners (55-59), to get within 1½ games of the Cleveland Guardians in the final American League wild-card spot. (Between the Tigers and the Guardians: The Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers at one game back, and the Baltimore Orioles, tied with Detroit.) That obviously doesn't undo what happened last October, but it does build on the sweep of the Athletics, and it did keep the Tigers' recent offensive outburst well, bursting.
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Their eight runs marked the sixth straight game the Tigers reached that number, tied for the longest streak in franchise history, and done for the first time since a run from July 4-8, 1927. As it turned out, the Tigers only needed one run, though, thanks to another dominant performance from right-hander Troy Melton.

#Seattle

SEATTLE (AP) — Troy Melton threw seven sharp innings and Colt Keith hit a two-run single as the Detroit Tigers beat the Seattle Mariners 8-0 on Tuesday night to open their post-Tarik Skubal era.
Detroit (55-58) has won four straight and is one of several teams chasing the final AL wild card spot, moving within 1 1/2 games of Cleveland. Seattle (55-59) has lost nine of 13 and dropped 3 1/2 games behind Houston in the AL West.
The Tigers have scored at least eight runs in six straight games, tied for the longest such streak in franchise history.
Melton (7-1) continued his string of dominance since starting the season on the injured list. The right-hander, who has not allowed a run in his last 14 innings, struck out four, walked two and gave up three hits, lowering his ERA to 1.58 in 12 starts. He did not allow a Seattle batter to advance past second base.
The Tigers pulled ahead in the third inning. With two outs, Riley Greene hit a grounder to shortstop Colt Emerson, who made a poor throw to first, allowing a run to score. Keith followed with his single to right that made it 3-0.

#detroit

SEATTLE – The last time the Detroit Tigers played here at T-Mobile Park, their season ended in the ALDS after 15 grueling innings. Not that they were worried about returning to the scene of last season's postseason heartbreak.
They're worried about other things now, like catching the teams ahead of them in the Wild Card race in the American League. Well, one of the teams that was ahead of them.
Because after the Tigers beat the Seattle Mariners, 8-0, on Tuesday, Aug. 4., the Tigers (55-58) had jumped half a game ahead of the Mariners (55-59), to get within 1½ games of the Cleveland Guardians in the final American League wild-card spot. (Between the Tigers and the Guardians: The Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers at one game back, and the Baltimore Orioles, tied with Detroit.) That obviously doesn't undo what happened last October, but it does build on the sweep of the Athletics, and it did keep the Tigers' recent offensive outburst well, bursting.
MOUND MEN: Jackson Jobe back with Tigers as Kenley Jansen focused on improvement
Their eight runs marked the sixth straight game the Tigers reached that number, tied for the longest streak in franchise history, and done for the first time since a run from July 4-8, 1927. As it turned out, the Tigers only needed one run, though, thanks to another dominant performance from right-hander Troy Melton.

#tigers #last #ahead

Seattle — ****** ody asked Troy Melton to fill anybody else's shoes. It wasn't his burden to take over the mantle of ace of staff with Tarik Skubal gone.
But if actions speak louder than words, he seems to have accepted the challenge.
Melton was brilliant Tuesday, pitching seven scoreless, three-hit innings in the Tigers' 8-0 romp over the Seattle Mariners in the first of three at T-Mobile Park.
BOX SCORE: Tigers 8, Mariners 0
With the win, the Tigers (55-58) climb to five games back in the Central Division and just 1.5 games back in the Wild Card race, pulling even with the Mariners.

#Mariners #back