Spirits among Detroit Tigers’ faithful were low entering Wednesday afternoon’s series finale against the Texas Rangers.
Not only had the Texas offense whooped Detroit’s pitching two days in a row. Not only did the team just lose its best pitcher and best position player for indefinite periods less than 24 hours apart. But Joey Wentz, sporting a 7.80 ERA and 55 ERA+, was ticketed to be the man to stop the streak and give fans something to smile about on this terrible, no good, very bad day.
And to the shock of everyone, Wentz.