The end of a four-game series with the Kansas City Royals mercifully came today, on a chilly Michigan Monday, with a 3-2 loss.
Spencer “Big Red” Turnbull and Brad “The Georgia Peach” Keller, two extreme-groundball pitchers, started today, so the worms at Comerica Park were on high alert the whole afternoon.
Keller’s season so far has been, shall we say, lousy: coming into today, he’d started four games, lasted a total of 12 innings, given up 22 hits and walked nine. This was after last season’s abbreviated, but solid, results: nine starts and a 2.