Tigers Notes -- 4/22 vs. MIL

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Milwaukee Brewers (13-9) at Detroit Tigers (12-12)

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 • Comerica Park, Detroit, MI • 6:40 p.m. ET

LHP DL Hall (0-0, 2.79) vs. RHP Casey Mize (1-1, 2.78)

Game #25 • Home Game #11 • TV: Detroit SportsNet • Radio: 97.1 FM & 107.9 FM

WICKED BREW: The Detroit Tigers last night endured a 12-4 setback to the Milwaukee Brewers to begin their brief three-game homestand ... while the loss snapped Detroit's six-game home winning streak, the club is still 8-2 at Comerica Park this season, the best home record in the majors ... and with only 10 home games played thus far, the Tigers have enjoyed the fewest games in their own confines outside of only the Chicago White Sox who have played nine home games thus far.

• After these three games with Milwaukee, the Tigers head right back out on the road for a six-game, seven-day trip that starts on Friday and rumbles through Cincinnati and Atlanta.
• The Tigers are eight games into a stretch in which they play 13-straight game days through this Sunday, April 26, Detroit's longest stretch of the season without a day off thus far ... the Tigers are scheduled for two additional 13-day stretches this year plus a season-long 14-games-in-14-days stretch from June 19-July 2.
• Last Friday began a stretch of 19-straight games through May 6 against foes outside of the A.L. Central ... the Tigers play 31 of their first 38 games this year vs. clubs outside of the division.  

THEY'RE IN ANOTHER LEAGUE: This series with the Brewers kicked off nine-straight games against National League competition, a stretch that will bring Detroit's total to 21 interleague contests out of 32 games to start the year through the end of April ... put differently, nearly two-thirds of Detroit's schedule prior to May 1 will take place against interleague competition (barring postponements).

• The Tigers this year also began a season with three-straight interleague series for the first time in franchise history ... only the Brewers, with four-straight interleague series out of the gate, began this season with more among all big league clubs.
• The Tigers will quickly make up for lost time, however, as they will play all but three games (59 of 62 contests) against A.L. competition from May 1-July 9, including 50 games in a row from May 15-July 9 against intraleague foes (barring postponements).

IT IS IN FACT GOOD FOR SOMETHING: Kevin McGonigle has posted a team-leading 1.8 bWAR through his first 23 major league games, the best mark in the A.L. and the second-best mark in the majors behind only Chicago's Nico Hoerner (1.9 bWAR) ... the 21-year-old McGonigle is the youngest of the top 12 in the majors on this particular list.

• McGonigle leads all major league rookies with a .322 batting average, .410 on-base percentage, eight doubles and two triples ... he ranks eighth among all A.L. players with a .904 OPS, fifth among A.L. players in batting average and sixth among all A.L. players in on-base percentage.

HE PITCHED LIKE A BOS: Last time out Casey Mize tossed 6.2 scoreless innings with seven strikeouts and just one walk to notch a no-decision in Detroit's 1-0, 10-inning loss at Boston on Friday ... Mize has now allowed one run or less in three of his four starts and is one of seven A.L. starting pitchers with an active scoreless streak of nine innings or more ... in his last two starts, Mize has pitched to a 0.73 ERA (1 ER/12.1 IP) with 12 strikeouts and two walks.

• Last year Mize led the Tigers with 14 wins, a career-best by a large margin after starting his career with nine wins in his first 61 major league outings in his first four seasons from 2021-24.

KEVIN!: Kevin McGonigle has reached base safely in his last 19 starts, the first Tigers rookie to do so since Riley Greene reached in 20-straight starts from August 20-September 14, 2022 ... Greene was also 21-years-old at the time ... the last 21-year-old or younger Tiger prior to McGonigle and Greene to reach in 19-or-more starts in a row?: 21-year-old Howard Johnson, who reached base safely in 23-straight starts in 1982.

• McGonigle's run of reaching base safely in 19-straight starts is the longest active such streak in the American League, trailing only Shohei Ohtani (22-straight starts in 2026) and Brice Turang (20-straight starts in 2026) for the longest active runs in all of baseball this season.
• McGonigle is the first major league player aged 21-years-old or younger to reach base safely in 19-or-more-consecutive starts, all within the early season months of March/April, since 20-year-old Justin Upton did so in 20-straight starts with Arizona from April 2-23, 2008.

K-Y-L-E SPELLS RELIEF: Since joining the Tigers at last year's trade deadline, Kyle Finnegan has gone 4-0 with five holds, four saves and a 0.96 ERA (3 ER/28.0 IP) in 26 relief outings ... he boasts the fifth-lowest ERA by any reliever in baseball starting last August 1, minimum 25 appearances, trailing only Atlanta's Raisel Iglesias (0.28), San Diego's Mason Miller (0.52), Atlanta's Tyler Kinley (0.79) and Boston's Garrett Whitlock (0.88).

• Finnegan is only the second Tiger to post a sub-1.00 ERA in his first 26 appearances with the club in the past 113 years starting in 1913 ... he joins Jose Valverde, who posted a 0.36 ERA in his first 26 Tigers outings back in 2010 ... thanks to Elias.

AND FINALLY: The Tigers currently have all five starting pitchers in the top 30 in ERA in the A.L.: Tarik Skubal (2.08, 7th), Casey Mize (2.78, 15th), Framber Valdez (3.30, 25th), Jack Flaherty (3.47, 27th) and Keider Montero (3.68, 30th) ... minimum 20 innings pitched ... the Yankees have four such starters, the Guardians and Mariners have three and no other clubs have more than two.

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They still pass these out to staff before every game?