The hot, humid, and stormy weather has taken a toll on Metro Detroit families, but we will get some relief from the heat. The chance of showers and storms will last longer.

There is the chance of an isolated strong to severe thunderstorm Saturday night, but the odds are low over Southeast Michigan. The main concerns would be gusty winds and heavy rain. The heavy rain could lead to localized street flooding.

It will be mostly cloudy with the chance of showers and thunderstorms through the overnight hours. Lows will range from 70 to 75 degrees. Winds will be out of the southwest at 8 to 13 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.

Sunday

The heavier rain will move out of the area by 6 a.m. Sunday as a cold front sweeps across the area, but a few showers will be possible through the morning. In the afternoon and evening, a few more spotty showers and a stray thunderstorm may develop. Otherwise, it will be mostly cloudy and noticeably cooler. Highs will be near 85 degrees in Detroit, lower 80s around Monroe, Ann Arbor, and Metro Airport in Romulus. It will be around 80 degrees in Pontiac, Flint, and Port Huron. Winds will be out of the west at 12 to 16 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.

Sunday night, expect partly cloudy skies and lows in the lower to mid 60s.

Monday

The weather looks to be ideal for outdoor activities on Monday, including the 66th Ford Fireworks. A high-pressure system will provide Southeast Michigan with mostly sunny skies, and afternoon temperatures will only peak in the lower 80s.

Monday night, it will be mostly clear and comfortable around 10 p.m. as the fireworks show begins. Overnight, it will become partly cloudy with lows in the lower to mid 60s.

Tuesday

The rain chance will return on Tuesday with highs back in the upper 80s. The high temperatures are forecast to be in the lower to mid 80s through the workweek.

Detroit Tigers right-handed reliever Alex Lange wiped tears from his eyes in the clubhouse Friday, just four days before Tuesday’s season-ending surgery in New York to repair an avulsion in his right lat (a tear in the large muscle covering the back) with Yankees head team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad.

Lange won’t pitch again until the 2025 season, but will miss his teammates more than anything.

“I’m looking forward to watching ball this summer,” Lange, 28, said at Comerica Park. “I watch every game. When you’re away from the boys, it’s tough. You become such like a family. It’s tough. I want to get back and get healthy and help. It’s been pretty cool to be a part of this family. I’m going to miss it.”

And his teammates will miss him.

“He’s a huge part of our bullpen, and he’s a nasty pitcher,” catcher Jake Rogers said. “He’s got literally the best pitch in baseball. It’s a tough loss for us. I’m praying for him. I know he’ll be back even better than before, which I’m excited to see.”

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Lange, diagnosed with a right lat strain, suffered the injury while pitching June 14 with Triple-A Toledo. He was trying to work his way back to the Tigers after getting sent down May 23 because of continued problems with his command and his curveball.

Lange lost his job as the closer with a 4.34 ERA, 17 walks and 21 strikeouts across 18⅔ innings in 21 relief appearances with the Tigers this season. (He notched 26 saves in 32 opportunities in 2023.)

“When you pitch as poorly as I was, you gotta accept your option, go down there and work on some stuff,” Lange said. “We had stuff to clean up. I was giving it up pretty good and costing the boys. To go down there and get right, I felt like I was ready, and then obviously unfortunate events happened.”

Lange took the mound June 14 for the Mud Hens in the seventh inning. He felt pain upon throwing a 96.5 mph sinker — his second-to-last pitch of the season — to the second batter he faced in his ninth outing with Toledo. Lange then struck out John Rave, a 26-year-old in the Kansas City Royals’ organization, with a curveball, but after throwing that pitch, immediately signaled to the dugout for medical attention.

“The heater, I felt it snap off the bone,” Lange said. “The tendon just pulled off the bone. I was like, ‘Uh oh, that’s not good.’ With the time of the pitch clock and everything, I wanted to test it to see what happens. I threw a breaking ball, swing and miss, and knew something was wrong, so I called the trainers out.”

The swing-and-miss curveball for a strikeout of Rave marked the final pitch of Lange’s season.

“The tendon pulled off the bone and retracted five and a half centimeters down the lat,” Lange said. “Go in there, sew it back on, a little duct tape, a little glue.”

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Dating back to June 4, 2023, Lange posted a 4.92 ERA with 51 walks (18% walk rate) and 66 strikeouts (23.3% strikeout rate) across 60⅓ innings in 64 games.

At the time of this year’s May 23 demotion, Lange’s 18% walk rate since last June 4 ranked 46th among 46 relief pitchers with at least 60 innings during that span, while his ERA ranked 44th. He struggled to throw strikes for far too long.

“I feel for him,” manager A.J. Hinch said. “He was working on the things that we asked him to work on, which is finding his breaking ball and throw more strikes. The curveball was hit or miss. He was throwing a few more strikes. When he got hurt, it was a punch in the gut for him and for us.”

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His curveball has the potential to be one of the best breaking balls in baseball because of the swing-and-miss profile, but his curveball hasn’t fooled opponents as often recently because it doesn’t fall off the table like it used to.

Simply put, his curveball lacks downward movement.

It averaged minus-0.1 inches of induced vertical break in MLB and plus-1.7 inches of IVB at the Triple-A level this season. Three years ago, it averaged minus-7.4 inches of IVB in MLB.

Fixing the curveball will have to wait.

“All we can really focus on is getting him healthy and getting him back and having him factor in whenever that is,” Hinch said. “But it was good to see him and see his determination to tackle this part of his career with the intensity that all of us would expect of him.”

Lange will rehab from season-ending lat surgery in Houston — which is where he lives in the offseason — as he aims to report healthy to spring training in 2025.

He sounds confident about his chances of bouncing back.

“It’s a pretty big muscle,” Lange said. “We’ll start with reattaching it to where it’s supposed to be and getting that tendon strong back to that bone. As far as the plan, we’re just going to execute. We’ll deal with those obstacles as they come. I’ll be all right. I’m not too worried.”

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The field for the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic is almost set, with 151 spots accounted for as of Friday night. There’s a bit of everything for Detroit golf fans: 10 of the top 50 in the World Golf Rankings, seven major winners, three previous Rocket Mortgage Classic winners and a pair of precocious youngsters.

The tournament, returning to Detroit Golf Club for the sixth time, will be held from June 25-30, with the first round teeing off on Thursday. Among the top ranked golfers coming to town are Cameron Young (No. 23 in the world ranks), Tom Kim (No. 26), Chris Kirk (No. 30) and, of course, Rickie Fowler, who is ranked No. 49 and the defending Rocket Mortgage Classic champ after last year’s epic three-way playoff victory.

Other previous winners returning to Detroit include Cam Davis, who took the trophy in 2021, and Nate Lashley, who won it as the third alternate in 2019, leading wire-to-wire.

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The Rocket Mortgage Classic will also feature several major winners, in Stewart Cink (2009 British Open), Jason Dufner (2013 PGA Championship), Zach Johnson (2007 Masters, 2015 British Open), Francesco Molinari (2018 British Open), Webb Simpson (2012 U.S. Open), Jimmy Walker (2016 PGA Championship) and Gary Woodland (2019 U.S Open).

On the other end of the experience spectrum, Detroit Golf Club will welcome 15-year-old Miles Russell on a sponsor’s exemption for his PGA Tour debut. The high school freshman from Jacksonville Florida finished 20^th at the LECOM Suncoast Classic on the Korn Ferry Tour in April. Also making his PGA Tour debut will be Neal Shipley, who has already finished as low amateur at the Masters and the U.S. Open this year. The 2023 U.S. Amateur runner-up turned pro this week.

The final five spots will be up for grabs on Sunday and Monday, with one spot available through the John Shippen National Golf Invitational, a 36-hole tournament at Detroit Golf Club on Saturday and Sunday, and the final four settled through Monday’s qualifiers.

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The 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic field

(as of Friday night)

Albertson, Anders

Alexander, Tyson

Baddeley, Aaron

Barjon, Paul

Barnes, Erik

Berger, Daniel

Bhatia, Akshay

Blair, Zac

Bramlett, Joseph

Brehm, Ryan

Bridgeman, Jacob

Bryan, Wesley

Buckley, Hayden

Campillo, Jorge

Campos, Rafael

Cauley, Bud

Champ, Cameron

Cink, Stewart

Clanton, Luke +

Cole, Eric

Coody, Parker

Coody, Pierceson

Crowe, Trace

Dahmen, Joel

Davis, Cam

Dougherty, Kevin

Dufner, Jason +

Dumont de Chassart, Adrien

Duncan, Tyler

Dunlap, Nick

Echavarria, Nico

Endycott, Harrison

Fishburn, Patrick

Fowler, Rickie

Fox, Ryan

Furr, Wilson

Garnett, Brice

Ghim, Doug

Gotterup, Chris

Greyserman, Max

Griffin, Ben

Griffin, Lanto

Gutschewski, Scott

Hadley, Chesson

Hale, Jr., Blaine

Hall, Harry

Hardy, Nick

Higgo, Garrick

Highsmith, Joe

Hisatsune, Ryo

Hodges, Lee

Hoey, Rico

Hoffman, Charley

Højgaard, Nicolai

Hossler, Beau

Hubbard, Mark

Jaeger, Stephan

James, Ben +

Johnson, Zach

Kim, Chan

Kim, Michael

Kim, S.H.

Kim, Tom

Kirk, Chris

Kisner, Kevin

Kizzire, Patton

Knapp, Jake

Knowles, Philip

Kohles, Ben

Koivun, Jackson +

Kuchar, Matt

Laird, Martin

Lashley, Nate

Lee, K.H.

Lee, Min Woo

Lindheim, Nicholas

Lipsky, David

List, Luke

Lower, Justin

MacIntyre, Robert

Malnati, Peter

Martin, Kyle #

McCormick, Ryan

McNealy, Maverick

Meissner, Mac

Merritt, Troy

Mitchell, Keith

Molinari, Francesco

Montgomery, Taylor

Moore, Ryan

Moore, Taylor

NeSmith, Matt

Noren, Alex

Norlander, Henrik

Norrman, Vincent

Novak, Andrew

Olesen, Thorbjørn

Pan, C.T.

Pendrith, Taylor

Pereda, Raul

Phillips, Chandler

Rai, Aaron

Ramey, Chad

Reavie, Chez

Riley, Davis

Rodgers, Patrick

Russell, Miles +

Ryder, Sam

Schenk, Adam

Schmid, Matti

Shelton, Robby

Shipley, Neal +

Sigg, Greyson

Silverman, Ben

Simpson, Webb

Skinns, David

Sloan, Roger

Smalley, Alex

Snedeker, Brandt

Spaun, J.J.

Springer, Hayden

Stevens, Sam

Streelman, Kevin

Suh, Justin

Svensson, Adam

Tarren, Callum

Taylor, Ben

Teater, Josh

Thompson, Davis

Thorbjornsen, Michael

Todd, Brendon

Tosti, Alejandro

Trainer, Martin

Tway, Kevin

Valimaki, Sami

van Rooyen, Erik

Vegas, Jhonattan

Villegas, Camilo

Walker, Jimmy +

Wallace, Matt

Whaley, Vince

Whitney, Tom

Wilkinson, Tim

Woodland, Gary

Wu, Brandon

Wu, Dylan

Young, Cameron

Young, Carson

Yu, Kevin

Yuan, Carl

Zalatoris, Will

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# denotes Section Champion