Ichiro Suzuki once mentioned his favourite English expression involved the description of how hot day games in Kansas City are. (There’s some bleeped NSFW language in that clip.) Well, today in KC was one of those days, and the Tigers certainly felt the heat as they got shut out 6-1, and thus swept by the Royals in the three-game weekend series.
The starting pitching matchup was Tarik Skubal for the Tigers and Daniel Lynch for the Royals; two young, highly-touted lefties. Lynch had three starts back in May that didn’t go very well, but today would be a different story.