The Latest Breaking News from Drew Hutchison

DETROIT — The starch got taken out of this one quickly.

DETROIT — Pretty good night for the local kid.

CLEVELAND — As a manager, you can push the right buttons and the pull the right strings and still get punched in the mouth.

DETROIT — Rookie Kerry Carpenter hadn’t even been officially activated yet when Tigers manager AJ Hinch assembled the team in the clubhouse and told them general manager Al Avila, the man who one way or another was responsible for them all being in that room, had been fired.

TORONTO — The Tigers scored twice in the top of the fifth inning and took a 2-1 lead, but as it turned out, probably squandered their best chance to win the game, as well.

They pounced on an error by left fielder Robbie Grossman with two out in the eighth inning, as pinch hitter AJ Pollock hit a tiebreaking single and Eloy Jiménez followed with an insurance RBI hit.

HOUSTON — They wore pink Sunday to celebrate Mother’s Day around baseball. But it had to feel like Groundhog’s Day to the Tigers.

DETROIT — The magic number is down to one.

DETROIT — The heroics for the Tigers were contained to one inning and it was enough to beat the defending Central Division-champion Chicago White Sox, 5-4, in front of a sold-out opening day crowd at Comerica Park.