Detroit – After about 10 days of good, solid baseball, the Tigers slopped one up Wednesday.
Shoddy defense, mental blunders, poor pitching – a lot of hands contributed to the 8-5 loss to the Phillies, which snapped a four-game winning streak.
From a big-picture standpoint, though, nothing that happened Wednesday was more troubling than Anibal Sanchez’s performance. If the Tigers aren’t going to get more from their No. 3 starter than what they’ve been getting through the first 10 starts, they are going to have to ask themselves some difficult questions about the rotation.
BOX SCORE: Phillies 8, Tigers 5
“Inconsistent,” said acting manager Gene Lamont, subbing for Brad Ausmus who learned before the game that his mother had died.