San Diego — The Tigers played the type of team on Friday they might be in a year or two — a bunch of young, former top prospects, names unknown to most outside their own market, cutting their big-league teeth. A rebuilding team. A team with no pretense of competing for the playoffs. A team that has the third-worst record in baseball.
And yet that team, the woebegone San Diego Padres, found a way to extend the Tigers’ losing streak to seven, beating them 1-0.
Right-hander Luis Perdomo, who lost his first 10 starts this season, tossed six two-hit, shutout innings.