Greenberg is Tigers’ GM
The Detroit Tigers hired Jeff Greenberg to be their general manager, adding a former Chicago Cubs and Blackhawks executive to work with team president of baseball operations Scott Harris.
“It’s an extraordinary honor to take on this role with one of the most historic franchises in Major League Baseball,” Greenberg said Thursday.
Detroit is tied with the Los Angeles Angels for the longest active postseason drought that dates to 2014.
The Tigers — 10 games below .500 entering Thursday night's game at Oakland — are headed toward their seventh straight season with a losing record.
Police chastise White Sox
A Chicago White Sox game last month when two women were wounded by gunfire should have been stopped or delayed, the city’s interim police superintendent said.
The Aug. 25 game against the Oakland A’s was allowed to continue without interruption after the two women were shot near Section 161 of Guaranteed Rate Field because of “miscommunication” on the protocol for notifying Major League Baseball, interim superintendent Fred Waller told the Chicago Sun-Times.
“We’ve taken some steps to make sure that . . . we have the right people in place to delay or stop completely a game like that, so it won’t happen again,” Waller said in an interview.
“We did not know exactly what we had on our hands. We didn’t think it was an active shooter. But we didn’t know.”
Police still don’t know whether the bullets came from inside or outside Guaranteed Rate Field and likely will never be certain, Waller said.
Cole pitches gem
Gerrit Cole retired the first 16 hitters and pitched eight outstanding innings to strengthen his Cy Young Award credentials as the host New York Yankees moved back over .500 with a 5-4 victory over Toronto Blue Jays... Ronald Acuña Jr. scored his 140th run of 2023 — the most in the majors in 16 years — and Matt Olson hit his 53rd homer to lift the NL East champion Atlanta Braves past the lastplace Washington Nationals, 10-3 . . . Toronto designated hitter Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was a late scratch from the lineup because of right knee discomfort. He had an MRI during the game that showed inflammation and no structural damage. The team expects to know more Thursday. He is listed as day-to-day . . . Ramón Laureano drew a bases-loaded walk off Jacob Webb for the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, sending the host Cleveland Guardians past the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles, 5-2 . . . Nick Castellanos homered and drove in four runs to reach a career-best 103 RBIs in a season, and the host Philadelphia Phillies maintained their hold on at the the top of NL wild-card spot with a 5-4 victory over the New York Mets.