Detroit — It really doesn't matter how you win. There's no deductions or asterisks for blown leads, no bonus points for style and comfort.
"We played good enough to win this game," Robbie Grossman said. "I did not want to go home on the other side of this."
Grossman made the Tigers' collapse in the eighth and ninth innings irrelevant Tuesday, ripping a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth to give Detroit an 8-7 win over the reeling Kansas City Royals at Comerica Park.
"We played well tonight," manager AJ Hinch said.