Thursday night’s stellar pitching performance from the Tiger staff, as it turned out, did not carry through to Friday night’s game, as Detroit dropped the second matchup of a four-game weekend series in Boston 7-3.
Making the start for the Tigers was Kenta Maeda, his ninth of the season. He was on the IL for a couple of weeks with a viral infection that got the best of him, but in his first start back, last Friday at home against the Blue Jays, he tossed five shutout innings, didn’t walk anyone, and scattered four hits. That’s the “Dr.