{"id":642852,"date":"2026-05-01T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642852\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:03:33","slug":"mlb-news-kevin-mcgonigle-jason-benetti-kyle-hendricks-nick-kurtz-paul-skenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642852\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB News: Kevin McGonigle, Jason Benetti, Kyle Hendricks, Nick Kurtz, Paul Skenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Friday, everyone! The Tigers eked out a win against the best team in baseball yesterday afternoon. With Cleveland<\/a> off on Thursday, this meant that the Tigers were able to get back to a .500 win percentage and also tie the Guardians for first in the AL Central. The team now heads home to hopefully have some better luck on their home turf (where they\u2019ve been very good this season, going 10-2) and trying to get some of their good vibes back.<\/p>\n

In our news rundown today we look at Kevin McGonigle\u2019s impressive stats to start the season, and why Jason Benetti was the best fit for Sunday Night Baseball. We\u2019ll also take a look at what might help the White Sox<\/a> build a better stadium, and how Shohei Ohtani<\/a> proved he isn\u2019t completely perfect.<\/p>\n

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So let\u2019s just jump right into it.<\/p>\n

Detroit Tigers News<\/p>\n

Some unfortunate injury updates.<\/p>\n

With his three walks on Wednesday, you can extend that on-base streak to 27 games. His hitting streak ended at 13, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

AL Central NewsMLB News<\/p>\n

This fun little bit of baseball trivia was good for a laugh, so sharing it here!<\/p>\n

For the share-sized bag of Nerds Gummy Clusters? Worthwhile trade!<\/p>\n

After a Cleveland man-child stole a ball from a literal child, it was a member of the Rays<\/a>\u2019 broadcast crew who made the effort to make it right. PSA: No one is forcing you to give a ball you catch fair and square to a kid, but don\u2019t steal one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Friday, everyone! The Tigers eked out a win against the best team in baseball yesterday afternoon. With…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,483,80590,5257,6115,5260,164960,253537,210871,175779,122626,12453,5152,5144,591,5136,5137,2274,5149,85,36522,22727,23871],"class_list":["post-642852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston","tag-casey-mize","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cleveland","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-gleyber-torres","tag-jace-jung","tag-jason-benetti","tag-javier-baez","tag-jesus-luzardo","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-phillies","tag-rays","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-the-tigers","tag-trea-turner","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}