After Saturday night’s thrilling, extra-inning, come-from-behind, down-to-their-last-strike win, the Tigers looked to carry that momentum into the Sunday afternoon finale of their four-game series against the visiting Kansas City Royals. As it turned out, the visiting team had some late comeback heroics of their own as the Royals stunned the Tigers with a 3-2 win.
It was yet another bullpen game for the Tigers, although this one would be a little more settled: Alex Faedo would kick things off, and the relief pitcher parade would eventually include Brant Hurter, the 6’ 6” (198 cm) lefty making his major-league debut.