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Detroit Tigers (7-11-3) vs. (8-12) Friday, March 16, 2018 • Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, Lakeland, FL • 1:05 p.m. ET LHP Daniel Norris (0-0, 3.60) vs. RHP Nick PiveƩ a (0-3, 6.48) TV: None • Radio: None RECENT RESULTS: The Tigers suff ered an 8-1 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Thursday at Champion Stadium in NUMERICAL ROSTER Kissimmee. Alexi Amarista drove in the only run of the game for Detroit with a RBI single in the eighth inning. 1 José Iglesias INF Jim Adduci and Leonys Mar n each added a hit in the loss. Mike Fiers started for the Tigers and suff ered 8 Mikie Mahtook OF the loss, allowing fi ve runs on four hits with three walks and two in 4.0 innings. Daniel Stumpf 9 Nicholas Castellanos OF and Johnny Barbato each pitched a scoreless inning in relief. The Tigers con nue their Grapefruit League 12 Leonys Mar n OF schedule today as they host the Philadelphia Phillies. 14 Alexi Amarista INF ROSTER MOVE: Prior to today's game, the Tigers have reassigned C Brayan Peña to Minor League camp. The 19 Jarrod Saltalamacchia C Tigers have 36 players remaining in Major League camp. 21 JaCoby Jones OF 22 Victor Reyes OF TIGERS TIDBITS: The Tigers rank fourth in the Grapefruit League with a .261 team ba ng average...Detroit's 24 INF pitching staff ranks second in the Grapefruit League with 191 strikeouts, while they are fourth with a .243 27 Jordan Zimmermann RHP opponents ba ng average...JaCoby Jones has hit safely in nine of his last 12 games and is ba ng .480 (12x25) with fi ve runs scored, three doubles, one home run and six RBI during the stretch...Leonys Mar n 30 Alex Wilson RHP has recorded a hit in fi ve of his last six games, ba ng .353 (6x17) with four runs scored, two doubles, two 32 RHP home runs and two RBI...Nicholas Castellanos and Victor Mar nez are ed for second in the Grapefruit 33 Derek Norris C League with four home runs. 34 James McCann C 36 Blaine Hardy LHP TIGERS-PHILLIES GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE SERIES: The Tigers and Phillies will play the second game of their 37 Jim Adduci OF four-game Grapefruit League series today in Lakeland. Detroit picked up an 11-6 win in the fi rst mee ng between the two teams this spring. Following today's game, Detroit and Philadelphia will meet on March 22 38 Francisco Liriano LHP in Clearwater and March 24 in Lakeland. 41 Victor Mar nez DH 44 Daniel Norris LHP FIVE MINOR LEAGUERS JOIN TIGERS FOR TODAY’S GAME: Righthanded Adam Ravenelle (#99), 45 RHP John Schreiber (#83) and Jeff Thompson (#86), infi elders Alexis Garcia (#97) and Cole Peterson (#92) and 46 INF ou ielder Chris n Stewart (#98) will join the Tigers for today's game. 48 Ma hew Boyd LHP 2018 TIGERS TICKETS: Fans looking to secure ckets to the best games this upcoming season can do so now 49 Dixon Machado INF by purchasing customizable cket packages, including the six and 20-game fl ex plans. Flex plans start as low 50 Mike Fiers RHP as $110 and fans can choose the games and seats they want. Plans that include an cket start 51 Johnny Barbato RHP as low as $15 per game. For complete 2018 season cket informa on, visit gers.com/seasons or call (313) 53 Warwick Saupold RHP 471-BALL (2255). 54 Drew VerHagen RHP Individual game ckets for the 2018 season are currently on sale. Tickets start as low as $12. Secure ckets to 55 John Hicks C a summer of historic celebra ons that will showcase the great tradi on of Detroit Tigers . Individual 61 Shane Greene RHP game ckets can be purchased at the Comerica Park Box Offi ce on Witherell Street, online at gers.com, or 64 Chad Bell LHP by calling 866-66-TIGER (84437). 68 Daniel Stumpf LHP 76 INF TODAY’S TIGERS PITCHERS 77 Joe Jiménez RHP #44 LHP Daniel Norris – (0-0, 3.60) 78 Chad Huff man OF 2018 Spring: Norris will make his fourth appearance and second start of Spring Training today vs. 80 Ronny Rodriguez INF Philadelphia…Struck out three with one walk and three hits allowed over 2.0 scoreless innings on Sunday 81 Pete Kozma INF vs. Atlanta. 2017 Season: Established career highs with 22 appearances, 101.2 innings pitched and 86 strikeouts and posted a 5-8 record with a 5.31 ERA (101.2IP/60ER) and 86 strikeouts…Allowed four earned runs on April 20 at Tampa Bay, snapping his streak of allowing three earned runs-or-less at 21 consecu ve starts...also took the loss in the game at Tampa Bay, which was Norris’ fi rst loss in 17 road starts to begin his career...the streak of 16 road starts without a loss to start his career was ed with Todd Wellemeyer and Larry Jensen for the second-longest streak since 1913…Recorded the 200th of his Major League career on September 13 at Cleveland. #45 RHP Buck Farmer – (0-0, 0.00) 2018 Spring: Farmer will make his sixth Grapefruit League appearance today vs. Philadelphia…Has allowed just one hit in 6.0 innings of work this spring...Threw a scoreless inning on Tuesday at New York (AL), walking two and striking out two. 2017 Season: Compiled a 5-5 record with a 6.75 ERA (48.0IP/36ER) and 49 strikeouts over 11 starts with the Tigers…Picked up his fi rst Major League win in his 2017 Tigers debut in the second game of the doubleheader on May 27 at CWS, throwing 6.1 shutout innings with three hits allowed, two walks and a career-high 11 strikeouts. #51 RHP Johnny Barbato (1-0, 2.35) 2018 Spring: Barbato will make his eighth Grapefruit League appearance today vs. Philadelphia…Walked two and struck out one in a scoreless inning yesterday at Atlanta. 2017 Season: Began the 2017 season in the organiza on before being acquired by the Pi sburgh Pirates on April 17…Posted an 0-1 record with the Pirates, with a 4.08 ERA (28.2IP/13ER) and 23 strikeouts…Appeared in a career-high 24 games in three s nts with the Pirates…Did not allow a run in his fi nal eight appearances of the season with Pi sburgh from August 24-October 1, a stretch that lasted 5.1 innings. #61 RHP Shane Greene – (0-0, 0.00) 2018 Spring: Greene will make his fourth appearance of Spring Training today vs. Philadelphia…Struck out two in a shutout inning on March 5 at New York (NL). 2017 Season: Appeared in a career-high 71 games with Detroit in 2017, pos ng a 4-3 record with nine saves and a 2.66 ERA (67.2IP/20ER)…Ranked ed for sixth in the American League with 71 appearances…Allowed only nine of the 47 runners he inherited to score and fi nished second in the American League with a 19.1 inherited runners scored percentage (min. 40 inherited runners)…Did not allow a run in a career-long 16.1 consecu ve innings from July 1-August 12, a span that stretched 18 games. PHILLIES ALSO SCHEDULED TO PITCH: RHP Francisco Rodriguez, RHP Pedro Beato, LHP Zac Cur s

UPCOMING SCHEDULE AND PITCHING MATCHUPS DATE OPPONENT GAME TIME TIGERS PITCHERS OPPONENT PITCHERS Saturday New York (AL) 1:05 p.m. LHP Ma hew Boyd RHP Masahiro Tanaka Sunday at Tampa Bay 1:05 p.m. TBA TBA March 16, 2018 GAME NOTES 2018 Tigers Spring Training Schedule Date Opponent Result Winner Loser Save A endance February 22 Florida Southern W, 6-1 Comer Langford --- 3,126 February 23 at New York (AL) L, 3-1 Hale Sodders Gallegos 10,129 February 24 Toronto W, 5-4 Zimmermann Rowley Russell 6,922 February 25 Pi sburgh T, 8-8 ------4,729 at Toronto W, 6-3 Boyd Sanchez Saupold 3,963 February 26 at Bal more W, 8-6 Barbato Gausman Voelker 5,760 February 27 at Philadelphia W, 11-6 Fiers Eickhoff --- 4,365 February 28 at New York (AL) W, 9-6 Montgomery King Castro 8,727 March 1 Atlanta L, 5-2 Jackson Moreno Morris 4,576 March 2 Miami W, 8-3 Boyd Gallen --- 4,768 March 3 Tampa Bay L, 7-4 De León Soto Gibaut 6,482 March 4 at Washington L, 6-2 Gonzalez Wilson --- 4,481 March 5 at New York (NL) L, 4-2 Harvey Fiers Gagnon 5,603 March 6 New York (AL) L, 7-2 Carroll Montgomery --- 8,468 March 7 Toronto L, 6-5 Case Bell Shafer 6,169 March 8 at Pi sburgh L, 8-3 Rivero Stumpf --- 7,124 March 9 New York (NL) T, 4-4 ------7,018 March 10 at Toronto L, 6-3 Garcia Fiers Case 4,620 March 11 Atlanta W, 6-3 Liriano Wisler Jiménez 6,399 March 12 Washington L, 5-4 Grace Reininger Harper 6,254 March 13 at New York (AL) T, 2-2 ------9,969 March 15 at Atlanta L, 8-1 Foltynewicz Fiers --- 5,934 March 16 Philadelphia March 17 New York (AL) March 18 at Tampa Bay March 19 Bal more March 20 New York (AL) March 21 at Atlanta March 22 at Philadelphia March 23 at Atlanta March 24 Philadelphia March 25 Atlanta March 26 Tampa Bay March 27 at Tampa Bay

Record: 7-11-3 Home: 3-5-2 Road: 4-6-1 vs. AL: 4-5-1 vs. NL: 3-6-2 “B” Games: 1-0 2018 SPRING BATTING STATS

2018 SPRING TRAINING TRANSACTIONS DATE TRANSACTION February 23 Signed LHP Francisco Liriano as a free agent; designated LHP for assignment March 2 LHP Jairo Labourt claimed off waivers by Cincinna March 3 Reassigned RHP's Victor Alcántara, and Paul Voelker to Minor League camp March 6 Op oned INF Dawel Lugo to Triple A Toledo March 7 Uncondi onally released LHP Travis Wood March 9 Op oned RHP's Ar e Lewicki and Zac Reininger to Triple A Toledo; op oned RHP's Gerson Moreno and to Double A Erie; op oned LHP to Single A Lakeland; signed C Jarrod Saltalamacchia as a Minor League free agent March 11 Reassigned INF Dominic Ficociello to Minor League camp March 13 Op oned LHP Ryan Carpenter, C and OF Mike Gerber to Triple A Toledo; op oned RHP Sandy Baez and INF Sergio Alcántara to Double A Erie; op oned RHP Eduardo Jimenez to Single A Lakeland; reassigned RHP's Enrique Burgos, Kevin Comer and Mark Montgomery and C's Arvicent Perez and to Minor League camp March 15 Reassigned INF's , Kody Eaves and Edwin Espinal and OF Jason Krizan to Minor League camp March 16 Reassigned C Brayan Peña to Minor League camp