Boston — There is an American League Central Division race waiting to be grabbed by a nasty, well-rounded team bent on shaking up a region that was supposed to have belonged to Cleveland.
The Tigers would love being that contender. But it’ll mean changing some of the past week’s behavior.
They faded for the fourth time in five games Saturday night at Fenway Park, fighting their way back from 2-0 and 3-2 holes, all before the Red Sox jumped on a pair of Tigers relievers for eight runs in the seventh and eighth innings and an 11-3 victory that thoroughly tickled most of a summer-dressed crowd of 37,162.