BALTIMORE — The Detroit Tigers, one of the hottest teams in baseball, nearly carried a six-game winning streak into their two-city, six-game road trip against the Baltimore Orioles and Milwaukee Brewers.
The winning streak, though, stopped at five games in Wednesday's 3-2 loss to the Cleveland Guardians at Comerica Park. The Tigers, despite late-inning home runs from Spencer Torkelson and Zach McKinstry, stranded two runners in the bottom of the ninth inning.
"We're playing better," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said after Wednesday's loss. "We're playing clean baseball. That's important for us to win today's game.