I would love to point to Shane Bieber’s dominant outing tonight as his best of the season, but nothing can top what he did to the Orioles last month. Taking strength of opponent into account, this might not have even been his second best outing of 2019. He’s had too many good outings this season in general; it’s a rough life. Truly.
Instead, let’s just call this start that resulted in a 4-2 victory a very, very, very, very good one.
Bieber’s slider was absolutely filthy tonight, and combined with pinpoint control of his four-seam fastball, he was able to make the Tigers lineup look even worse than they really are.