Toronto — You better bring your hitting shoes when you come up here to play the bashing Blue Jays. On most nights, anything less than five runs is going to get you beat.
And the worst thing you can do is give a team like that extra outs. It's like pouring gasoline on a flame.
These were part of manager AJ Hinch's pre-series message to his team ahead of a four-game series here at Rogers Centre.
The Tigers didn't quite get there on either front Thursday, try as they might, losing the opener to the Blue Jays, 5-3.