Detroit — The irony of it is, he came into the game with the most run support in major league baseball.
In his five previous starts, while Jordan Zimmermann was accruing a 7.91 ERA, his teammates were averaging 9.2 runs for him.
But on the night he blanked the Tampa Bay Rays on two hits over seven innings, the Tigers couldn’t push across a single run. Buzzard’s luck.
“Baseball,” Zimmermann said.
The Rays scored three in the top of the ninth off closer Shane Greene and then held on for dear life to take the first game of a three-game set, 3-2 Monday night.