Toronto – Nothing says a bad season of baseball in Detroit can't get worse.
And as evidence, there was Saturday's atrocity at Rogers Centre, where the Blue Jays, thanks in great part to three home runs and nine RBIs by Edwin Encarnacion, massacred the Tigers, 15-1, in a dizzying display of pitcher-pummeling.
Encarnacion came within a RBI of matching the explosive, 10-RBI night Fred Lynn amassed against the Tigers in a June, 1975, game at Tiger Stadium.
The Jays designated hitter crashed a three-run homer against Tigers starter Buck Farmer in the first, added a two-run drive against Guido Knudson in the sixth, and then blasted a bases-loaded bomb to right-center field in the seventh for the most RBIs by a Blue Jays batter in a single game since Roy Howell had nine against the Yankees in 1977.