{"id":133313,"date":"2025-06-26T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/133313\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:34:15","slug":"dietrich-enns-34-pitches-1st-mlb-game-since-2021-in-tigers-8-0-win-over-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/133313\/","title":{"rendered":"Dietrich Enns, 34, pitches 1st MLB game since 2021 in Tigers’ 8-0 win over Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Tigers<\/a> (51-31) maintained at least a tie for the best record<\/a> in Major League Baseball with an 8-0 win<\/a> over the Athletics<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A big reason for Detroit’s success this season is that the team is getting meaningful contributions throughout the lineup, not just relying on star players. (Though the Tigers have one in reigning American League Cy Young Award winner<\/a> Tarik Skubal.)<\/p>\n

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Thursday’s win provided an excellent example of that, with Dietrich Enns<\/a> getting the start for the Tigers and earning the win with five scoreless innings. It was his first major league appearance since 2021, and hee allowed one hit with two walks and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Detroit provided an early 3-0 lead for Enns with a first-inning homer from Spencer Torkelson<\/a> and a two-run double by Jahmai Jones<\/a> against Athletics starter Jeffrey Springs<\/a>. The Tigers later added to their lead with a two-run shot in the seventh from Gleyber Torres<\/a>, followed by a two-run triple by Zach McKinstry<\/a> and sacrifice fly from Jake Rogers<\/a> in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Enns, 34, last pitched in MLB in September 2021 with the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a>. For the past four years, he played in Japan and Korea. The Tigers signed him to a minor-league deal<\/a> in January and he made 14 starts in Triple-A, compiling a 2.89 ERA, 71 strikeouts in 62 1\/3 innings and a 2-2 record.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m proud of him for the journey,\u201d Tigers manager AJ Hinch said afterward<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s been around the world and worked his way back.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not just doing the same thing over and over again, hoping for a new opportunity,” Hinch added. “He refined his changeup. He\u2019s learned count leverage a little better. His arsenal has shifted. Adjustments don\u2019t mean a complete overhaul. It just means subtle tweaks and the performance followed.”<\/p>\n

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Enns was originally selected in the 19th round of the 2012 MLB Draft by the New York Yankees<\/a>. After seven years in the Yankees organization, he also played in the Minnesota Twins<\/a> and San Diego Padres<\/a> systems.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Enns’ first two major-league wins before Thursday both came against the Tigers, five days apart in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers (51-31) maintained at least a tie for the best record in Major League Baseball with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[145,537,5,147,53,2583,12018,95,12017,1386,3239,19,60,4,62,18,314,68,594,398],"class_list":{"0":"post-133313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-detroit-tigers","13":"tag-detroittigers","14":"tag-dietrich-enns","15":"tag-gleyber-torres","16":"tag-jahmai-jones","17":"tag-jake-rogers","18":"tag-jeffrey-springs","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-minnesota-twins","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-new-york-yankees","23":"tag-san-diego-padres","24":"tag-spencer-torkelson","25":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","26":"tag-tigers","27":"tag-zach-mckinstry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114751817873296465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}