At 2-4 on the young season, the Seattle Mariners are already in an early-season bind. And it's not going to get any easier on Wednesday afternoon when they play

Since the Detroit Tigers used the first selection in the 2018 MLB First-Year Player Draft on Auburn pitcher Casey Mize, the former Springville High School star had compiled a 9-19 record in 59 career starts for the big-league team entering Tuesday’s American League game against the Seattle Mariners.

Detroit Tigers right fielder Zach McKinstry collides with the wall trying to catch the triple from Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez during the fifth inning of a baseball game Monday, March 31, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) AP

It's Detroit's earliest start to a season. The previous earliest start for the franchise was March 28 (2024 and 2019).

The Tigers kickstart their 25th baseball season at Comerica Park against the White Sox, and the city kicks off one of its biggest parties of the year. While we can quibble about whether there is such a thing as a moral victory,

May 30 @ Seattle (7) and July 19 @ Baltimore (6).Kerry Carpenter started the scoring with a single to right field and Riley Greene followed with a home run. Detroit also got an RBI double from Javy Baez.

Whether or not you have tickets to the big game, there are plenty of ways to show your team spirit downtown. Here are some of the bigger opening day parties in Detroit.

Detroit Tigers begin the season with heightened expectations but real questions after last year's surprise playoff run.

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan in rural Alabama in the 1980s. Where I'm from, all we really had was college football. You were either an Alabama or Auburn football fan.

After Detroit surprised the baseball world by sneaking into the playoffs off the back of a late-season surge and wound up making it within a game of the ALCS, the club entered the offseason looking to assert itself as a contender but fell short in many of its most significant pursuits.