Detroit – When you don’t know what to expect, you make yourself ready for anything.
Just ask Tigers lefty reliever Tyler Alexander. His appearances this year have been, to say the least, well-spaced – six days apart, five days apart; and when he came into the game in relief of Casey Mize in the fifth inning Friday night, it was his first outing in eight days.
And he was razor sharp. He pitched 2.1 scoreless innings, 23 pitches and 18 strikes, with a two-out walk in the seventh the only blemish. Pretty impressive.
“I got off the mound before the game,” Alexander said, meaning he threw a bullpen earlier in the day Friday.