BALTIMORE — The Detroit Tigers should’ve showed themselves better than this.
After losing a weekend series against the Mets, they arrived in Baltimore on Sunday evening, many hours before the Orioles returned home from a trip to Colorado, past 2 a.m.
On Monday afternoon, one team played sloppy and sluggish and not smart. That team was the Tigers.
Nearly a week after getting swept by the worst team in the National League, the Tigers dropped the first game of a three-game series against the worst team in the American League, 5-3, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.