Tigers bounce back with 4-0 win over Angels

Chris McCosky, The Detroit News on May 27, 2026

Published in Baseball

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DETROIT — Apparently, the 2026 Detroit Tigers can’t have nice things. At least not for long.

They won a baseball game Wednesday night, which has been rare. They beat the Los Angeles Angels and their ace right-hander Jose Soriano, 4-0 at Comerica Park. The win snapped a seven-game home losing streak and was their second win overall in their last 11 games.

But, in the process, they might have lost their most consistent starting pitcher. Again.

Casey Mize, in his third start back after missing three weeks with a groin strain, left the game after four scoreless innings.

He had six strikeouts through those four innings, but after retiring Angels Wade Meckler on a long flyout to center, he walked slowly back to the dugout. He was shown talking to trainers and walked down the tunnel toward the Tigers’ clubhouse.

He did not return and the Tigers announced he was undergoing further medical evaluation for tightness in his right groin. It’s the same groin that put him on the shelf last month.

Since coming back, Mize had allowed just two runs in 16 2/3 innings.

Drew Anderson, though, picked up where Mize left off. He dispatched all nine hitters he faced and handed the ball to Kyle Finnegan who pitched a clean eighth.

But there was one more injury issue to deal with. Kenley Jansen got two outs in the ninth (making it 20 straight outs recorded by the Tigers) before he walked Mike Trout on four pitches. Manager AJ Hinch and trainer Chris McDonald had come out to check on Jansen earlier in the inning.

But after the walk to Trout, Jansen called them out again. He was dealing with some soreness in his right leg. Brenan Hanifee got the emergency call. He walked Vaughn Grissom but got Jorge Soler to ground out.

The Tigers started the game with three straight singles off Soriano. But it only generated one run.

Dillon Dingler, who singled home Colt Keith and sent Kevin McGonigle to third, got hung up between first and second and was thrown out in a rundown. Soriano struck out Riley Greene and got Zach McKinstry to fly out to end the inning.

Spencer Torkelson started the second inning with his eight home run of the season, scalding a 98.7 mph fastball into the Tigers’ bullpen in left field. He added two doubles later in the game.

Greene drove home the third run in the fifth inning, cashing in on back-to-back walks by McGonigle and Dingler.

They added another run in the seventh against lefty Brent Suter. McGonigle, who was 2 for 3 with a walk, singled, went to third on a double by Dingler and scored on a wild pitch.

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