Toronto — Numbness might be the next hazard, at least in the minds of those who wonder how a big-league baseball team can lose 11 consecutive games without, at some point, shutting down the misery by ignoring it.
That’s not the Tigers clubhouse.
Yet.
But it was unmistakably different Saturday, after Justin Smoak drilled Joe Jimenez’s second pitch of the Blue Jays ninth inning 407 feet into the second deck at Rogers Centre, wiping out what had been a 3-0 Tigers lead and turning Saturday’s duel into a 4-3 victory for Toronto.
There were more heads down in the Tigers clubhouse afterward.