The Detroit Tigers’ last scheduled homestand of 2026 comes with more hanging over it than the usual late-season grind. It may also mark the final regular-season games at a ballpark officially known as Comerica Park.
Detroit had three home series left on the docket: the Colorado Rockies, the Washington Nationals and the Pittsburgh Pirates. That gave fans nine scheduled chances to get to the ballpark before the season wrapped up, with the full slate still listed on the Tigers’ official September schedule.
The stadium itself is not going anywhere. What’s changing is the name on it, and that name has been part of Detroit baseball since the park opened in 2000.
Comerica Bank originally secured the naming rights when the ballpark replaced Tiger Stadium. That arrangement turned into one of the longest-running active ballpark names in Major League Baseball.
The setup shifted after Fifth Third Bancorp agreed to buy Comerica in a deal valued at about $10.9 billion. Reuters reported the companies announced the agreement in October 2025. The merger closed in February, and local reporting later said the stadium would get a new name after the 2026 campaign.
Detroit and Fifth Third still have not announced what the new name will be, which makes it worth saying plainly: calling the park “Fifth Third Field” or anything else before it’s confirmed would be jumping the gun. Several professional and minor league venues already use Fifth Third branding, but that does not tell us what the Tigers’ home will be called.
For Tigers fans, Comerica Park has long stopped feeling like a sponsorship and started feeling like part of the team’s identity. The name has shown up on tickets, broadcasts, postseason memories and photos for more than 25 years.
The park opened on April 11, 2000, after the Tigers left Michigan and Trumbull. Since then, it has hosted the 2005 All-Star Game, two World Series and plenty of playoff moments.
A new corporate name would not change the stadium’s footprint or the memories tied to it. The tiger statues would still be there. So would the downtown skyline and the ballpark’s distinct outfield dimensions.
But stadium names matter because they become shorthand for the moments fans carry with them. A whole generation of Tigers supporters has never known a home game anywhere else.
That’s what gives these final nine games an unusual feel. The Rockies open the homestand, then come the Nationals and the Pirates. The team has not called any one game a formal goodbye, and it also has not laid out a full timetable for replacing signs, branding and other references around the park.
So the end of the Comerica Park name era is approaching without a clean farewell announcement attached to it. Detroit knows the change is coming. The fans still don’t know what name will take its place.
Whatever sits above the gates in 2027, Comerica Park will still be tied to 26 years of Tigers history.
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