After a bit of a bummer outing tomorrow the Tigers were hoping to take the rubber match on their last day in Milwaukee before heading back to Detroit for a weekend series against the Royals. A fresh-from-Toledo Keider Montero was on the mound for the Tigers, up against Jose Quintana, the veteran pitcher the Tigers have faced many times before.
In the first, the Tigers got some early opportunities as Quintana struggled with his command to start the game. Justyn-Henry Malloy got a leadoff walk, then Gleyber Torres hit into a double play. Andy Ibanez walked, and Quintana then made a pickoff move, except it wasn’t a pickoff move, and it was also clearly a balk, but the ground crew decided not to call it a balk, and what even are umpires for?