Detroit — Ron Gardenhire had only been here for four of them, but still, his baseball team came into the game Monday having lost 11 straight games to Central Division-rival Cleveland.
And with four starters still out of the lineup, facing the Indians’ dominating right-hander Carlos Carrasco, odds were long against stopping the skid on this night.
“This is a great baseball team, we know that,” Gardenhire said before the game. “But we don’t worry about the name on the front of their jersey. We just play baseball. Yes, they’re a good team. But they still have to put their uniforms on the same way we do.