The Latest Breaking News from Riley Greene

DETROIT — Pretty good night for the local kid.

DETROIT — Those 2022 Detroit Tigers just keep on making history.

DETROIT — Didn’t take long for the playoff-contending team to distinguish itself from the team playing out the string.

ARLINGTON, Texas — What’s frustrating — if anything can be truly frustrating after a road series-winning 9-8 victory against the Texas Rangers, except maybe the last two innings — is that the Tigers haven’t been able to produce this type of offensive performance more frequently this season.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Things went askew for Tyler Alexander well before he took the mound for his first start ever at Globe Life Field.

DETROIT — Tigers’ manager AJ Hinch talked before the game about how important it was for his hitters not to be overly respectful for Angels’ starter Shohei Ohtani.

CLEVELAND — How do you strike out the side and still end up allowing six runs to score?

CLEVELAND — For different reasons, they both badly needed to see balls fly into the seats.

CHICAGO — OK, we’ll say it. With tongue firmly implanted in cheek.

CHICAGO — Riley Greene talked before Saturday's game about getting back to his smooth, natural swing. He felt like he’d been trying to do too much, getting outside of himself, not letting the game just come to him.

DETROIT — Rookie Kerry Carpenter hadn’t even been officially activated yet when Tigers manager AJ Hinch assembled the team in the clubhouse and told them general manager Al Avila, the man who one way or another was responsible for them all being in that room, had been fired.