Detroit – It’s seemed like a random decision – starting Casey Mize in the first game of the scheduled double-header Saturday and Wily Peralta in the second. Except Tigers manager AJ Hinch doesn’t do anything randomly.
There was rhyme and reason for it.
“You’re kind of trying to hit the forecast,” he said, meaning, if they only one game was going to be played around the rain, he wanted Mize to pitch it. “And Casey is very regimented. With the first game at 1 p.m., we should be able to start on time, and if we can get some innings out of him we’re set up for the second game to do whatever we want with the bullpen.