Although not technically the exact midway point of the season, the MLB All-Star break is always used as the dividing point of the baseball year. For the Detroit Tigers, the first half of the 2019 season was cruel, to say the least, and getting swept by the defending world champions Boston Red Sox was a harsh ending.
In each of this weekend’s three games against Boston, the Detroit Tigers did make efforts for a comeback trying to pull themselves out of deficits. Each time, however, the Tigers’ comebacks failed to amount to much of anything in the end.