Port St. Lucie, Fla. – It’s not a trip anyone likes to make. Non-fans would include Tigers players who are free to wonder just why they must ride a bus for three hours, across some desolate stretches of two-lane highway, past a turnpike-delivery burg called Yeehaw Junction, just to play a baseball game.
Especially one as forgettable as Monday’s at Tradition Field.
With the help of two errors, two Mets home runs off two bad Tigers pitches, and a Detroit travel roster that looked more like something crafted from the minor-league clubhouse, the Tigers probably deserved their 7-3 beating by the Mets in a Grapefruit League get-together that had a minimum of redeeming factors, at least from the Tigers’ perspective.