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Aggressive Justyn-Henry Malloy drives Detroit Tigers to 9-9 tie with Tampa Bay Rays

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2 years ago

February 25, 2024

Aggressive Justyn-Henry Malloy drives Detroit Tigers to 9-9 tie with Tampa Bay Rays

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers tied the Tampa Bay Rays, 9-9, at Charlotte Sports Park on Sunday in their first road game of the 2024 Grapefruit League season.

The Tigers built a 9-3 lead in the seventh inning, but the Rays came back after the Tigers emptied their bench. Tampa Bay tied it with a couple of homers — including an inside-the-park shot off a bloop hit — and three doubles, scoring six unanswered runs.

There were 5,130 in attendance.

What happened

Despite letting a victory slip away, the Tigers’ youngsters made a statement on Sunday afternoon.

Justyn-Henry Malloy, who is fighting for a bench spot, came out aggressive at the plate — a change the Tigers want — and he picked up a pair of hits, including a homer.

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Justice Bigbie, a former 19th-round pick and one of the most intriguing players in camp because of how he has soared through the system, got his first Grapefruit League start in left field. Bigbie had some tremendous at-bats, picked up two singles, added an RBI and flew out to the warning track in center.

And Andre Lipcius, who hit .286 in 13 games in Detroit in 2023, picked up an RBI.

“He’s got himself in good shape,” manager A.J. Hinch said before the game. “He’s been a reliable baseball player and that has value.”

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Starting off

Alex Faedo, who went on the injured list in September with a blister on his middle finger, got the start for the Tigers. After pitching two innings, he looked at his hand outside the Tigers clubhouse. “No blister!” he reported.

So that’s the first hurdle.

Faedo struck out three with no walks. But a single by Josh Lowe and a double by Harold Ramirez tied the game, 1-1. And Yu Chang, the Rays’ non-roster-invitee shortstop, hit an opposite field homer in the second inning.

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“I feel happy with where my stuff is,” Faedo said. “I felt confident and comfortable on the mound. I was able to get to two innings, which in the past, your first time going two innings, coming back from rehabbing, in that second inning you feel kinda crappy. I felt like 100% fresh, so that was really reassuring.”

And Keider Montero was impressive, throwing two scoreless innings, allowing one hit while striking out one.

The one oddity? Kameron Misner hit an inside the park home run for the Rays when a pop-up landed between four Tigers and it got kicked into the outfield.

Wilmer Flores gave up four earned runs and Calvin Coker gave up two.

At the plate

The Tigers came out swinging.

The Tigers want Malloy to be more aggressive at the plate, and he was certainly that on Sunday. In the first, Malloy swung on a 3-0 count and singled over short. In the third inning, he crushed a first-pitch fastball to right-center.

“He has an incredible routine,” Hinch said before the game. “If anything, offensively, he can take his shot a little bit more often.”

And that’s what he did.

Zach McKinstry, who is also fighting for a spot on the bench, did a little bit of everything. He crushed a ball to deep left-center for a ground-rule double.

McKinstry also made a fine play at third base — against an old Tiger, Isaac Paredes — to end a Rays rally in the first inning.

And he had a walk in the third inning.

Eddys Leonard, picked up in a trade deadline deal from the Los Angeles Dodgers last season, played short and showed tremendous range to his left, throwing out Osleivis Basabe at first. He also showed off his bat Saturday in the first game of spring, driving in the final two runs with a two-out, bases-loaded double to finish 2-for-3 with three RBIs.

“Super fun personality,” Hinch said. “I asked him of all the positions that he’s played, what’s his favorite position? And he said ‘lineup’ and he meant it.”

Finally, Carson Kelly had a fantastic day at the plate. In the third inning, he hit an RBI single and he slammed a two-run homer to left in the fourth.

Three stars

Malloy, 2. Kelly, 3. McKinstry.

Next up

Monday vs. Houston Astros at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida.

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Contact Jeff Seidel: jseidel@freepress.com or follow him @seideljeff.

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Detroit police investigating report of baby left on porch; New details add context to situation

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13 hours ago

November 29, 2025

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Detroit police investigating report of baby left on porch; New details add context to situation

Terell Bailey

November 29, 2025 / 12:06 AM EST
/ CBS Detroit

The Detroit Police Department confirmed that it responded to a call concerning a baby found on a porch on Thanksgiving night.

Police responded to a home on Cruse Street near Fenkell Avenue. Police said their child abuse unit is investigating.

However, CBS News Detroit spoke with a source who confirmed the child wasn’t left on the porch. A teenage family member at the home, in fact, gave birth to the child, according to the source.

On Friday, a family member told CBS News Detroit that a teenager living at the Cruse Street home was pregnant, and that the family was unaware of the news. When the family initially received the news that a child was on the porch, the police were contacted.

Attorney Jeff Abood with Abood Law believes charges could be forthcoming.

“If somebody were to abandon an infant or child, then they could face criminal charges,” Abood told CBS News Detroit.

In 2001, a safe delivery law was implemented in Michigan. It allows parents to surrender their newborn child, no more than 3 days old, to any uniformed on-duty employee at a hospital, fire department, or police station. State records show nearly 400 babies have been safely surrendered in Michigan.

“You could do that without any sort of criminal responsibility, assuming it was done properly and done right,” Abood said.

With these latest developments, Detroit police haven’t said what will happen next.

According to the family member who talked to CBS News Detroit, the baby and mother are in the hospital and expected to be OK.

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The Packers got away with one but Detroit Lions still need fixes

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1 day ago

November 28, 2025

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The Packers got away with one but Detroit Lions still need fixes

The hole and the wink aren’t related. Not really.

Well, maybe.

OK, they are.

Just not how you think. And not how you want.

There is cause-and-effect. There is coincidence.

What happened at Ford Field on Thursday, Nov. 27, when the Green Bay Packers benefited from the officials’ mistake – or two – also exposed the Detroit Lions.

Again.

The Lions haven’t been good enough this season – in the trenches, on the margins – and it’s jarring, as reality so often is.

On Thursday, they couldn’t pressure the quarterback, they couldn’t protect their own quarterback when they absolutely needed to. They couldn’t convert on third-and-short or fourth-and-short, and Green Bay could – and did.

The difference in the game, said the man who winked – Packers coach Matt LaFleur. The difference in the game, said the man who mentioned the “hole” – Lions coach Dan Campbell.

As in: “We are in a little bit of a hole. That’s just what it is,” Campbell said after his team’s 31-24 loss. “There’s nothing more than that. All we got to do is worry about cleaning up this and then getting to the next game and finding a way to win the next one.”

The next one is, of course, against the Dallas Cowboys. Right back at Ford Field. Also a Thursday game (on Dec. 4). This time at night. Another must-win.

Though there are must-wins and there are must-wins. The Lions aren’t at the latter just yet. Too many games left. Too many possibilities.

The season isn’t finished, even if it feels like it will be soon. Then again, that feeling is also a way to cope, to deal with unmet expectations, to deal with being in “a hole,” to say: It’s over … and move on to college hoops or hockey, or even the Pistons.

Or to silence in your basement.

A wink and a nod from LaFleur

Which brings us back to the wink, which many will relate to the “hole,” because behind the wink, there is acknowledgement of a gift, from an official.

No, not cash or anything so direct or gauche. But the gift of a gathering, where folks dressed in black-and-white stripes huddled to discuss whether LaFleur had called a timeout before one of his offensive linemen jumped offsides, and concluded the timeout came first.

“Of course, they got it right,” said LaFleur, who winked as he said it. “What do you think?”

And:

“Yeah, I was calling timeout. … We call it a delay situation. Obviously, it was a timeout that we were going to use if they didn’t jump offsides, so we were going for it there regardless.”

If the flag stays, maybe the Packers convert. Maybe they don’t. But for LaFleur to act like fourth-and-6 is the same as fourth-and-1 is well, worthy of a wink.

That’s a tough look for the NFL, and an exasperating look for Lions fans. But so is the lack of a pass rush, and the season-long inability to make the play or two needed to win against the better teams in the league.

All of it can be true. The Lions got jilted. The Packers thought it was funny. The Lions still need to play much, much better.

Yeah, he winked. That’s indisputable. Nor is proof hard to find. Search “LaFleur and wink” and watch it pop up quickly – everywhere. Or at least everywhere the NFL and its officials are discussed, or everywhere the NFL is discussed.

And now everywhere the Lions are discussed.

The refs blew it. Then said they didn’t. That’s maddening, too. That’s also not why the Lions lost and fell further into their hole in the NFC North and overall playoff standings.

That could change. A lot needs to change with the Lions first.

“It all starts with you doing your job, which is us, and finding a way to win the next one in front of us,” said Campbell. “It really is that simple. Don’t make more of it than need be. It’s frustrating, it sucks, it’s tough, but we did it to ourselves and we’re the only ones who are going to get out of it as well.”

Wink …

… or not.

Contact Shawn Windsor: swindsor@freepress.com. Follow him @shawnwindsor.

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Canadian freighter runs aground in Detroit River, second this month

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2 days ago

November 27, 2025

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Canadian freighter runs aground in Detroit River, second this month

Detroit — For the second time this month, a freighter has run aground in the Detroit River.

The vessel, a 629 ft. long Canadian cargo ship called the Robert S. Pierson, is stuck about 5 and a half miles upriver from the still-under-construction Gordie Howe Bridge near downtown alongside the William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor. The freighter ran aground near where the other Canadian freighter got stuck earlier this month.

The U.S. Coast Guard Detroit sector received the initial report at 1:17 a.m. Thursday morning, Petty Officer Second Class Omar Faba said. Reportedly, it became grounded at 10:35 Wednesday night, he said. The cargo ship is carrying 18,000 tons of stone and was headed to Lorain, Ohio, from Windsor, Ontario.

There have been no reported injuries, pollution or impact to vessel traffic, he said.

The U.S. Coast Guard Salvage Engineering Response Team is working with stakeholders, and a refloat plan was approved this morning. Attempts to refloat the vessel are underway, but Faba did not know when it’s expected to be back underway.

At around 10:30 a.m., the ship was stuck diagonally in the river. Two tug boats, one from Ontario and one from Minnesota, were alongside the freighter.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

satwood@detroitnews.com

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