Detroit — Matthew Boyd never once mentioned that perhaps, just maybe, the reason he allowed more home runs than all but one pitcher last season was the baseball was juiced.
He didn’t mention that the 39 hit off him were only a tiny piece of the major league-record 6,776 homers hit last year — shattering the previous mark by 671. Or that nearly a quarter of the home runs he allowed came in five starts against the first two teams in history to slug more than 300 in a season — the Minnesota Twins and New York Yankees.