After an off-day Monday in which the Detroit Tigers very likely cut the grass, did the laundry and caught up on their daytime soap operas, the Tigers opened a mid-week, three-game series against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night. Unfortunately, the Nationals bested the Tigers by a 5-4 score in ten innings.
After exiting his previous outing after two pitches and some abdominal discomfort, Kenta Maeda made his eleventh start of the season. It’s been a rough season for Maeda so far; four of those previous ten starts saw him give up five runs or more four times.