After a soggy, rain-shortened win on Saturday, the Detroit Tigers had their sights set on a series sweep on a much cooler, breezier Sunday. However, they ran into a great starting pitcher and couldn’t get anything going with the bats, dropping the finale 4-0.
Tyler Alexander toed the rubber for the Tigers today. Since joining the rotation at the end of July, Alexander’s results have been... well... “Not great, Bob!”: eight starts, 39 innings pitched, 6.23 ERA, .890 OPS against, and nine home runs surrendered. He had a great seven-inning outing against Cleveland in early August, but for his three starts previous to today he didn’t get out of the fifth inning in any of them.