Technically, this game was lost in the 10th when the Tigers scored their Manfred Man and the Sox left theirs stranded with a pop-up, a routine fly and a K. But really the game was blown in the bottom of the seventh, when the Tigers tried desperately to give the game away but couldn’t find a taker.
That inning, Detroit reliever Alex Lange couldn’t come within a zip code of the plate and walked Martín Maldonado on four pitches (yes, walked perhaps the worst hitter in MLB, and on four pitches), walked Andrew Benintendi, then tried valiantly to walk Yoán Moncada but couldn’t because Moncada insisted at swinging at two bouncers in a row to strike out, walked Luis Robert Jr.