Pittsburgh – Here was this crazy baseball team from Motown within a game of that upbeat .500 niche as Wednesday night’s second contest began. Then, the lineup that’s suddenly sporting all kinds of startling hitters nearly hit three two-run homers that instead fizzled into a pair of outs and a lone-run, RBI double in a game that the Tigers tried to turn into a comeback victory and simply couldn’t.
After a day and night of baseball that lasted eight hours and left a pitching staff feeling as if it had been through a washing machine, the Tigers were left with a doubleheader split Wednesday at PNC Park, where they outlasted the Pirates, 13-10, in a dizzying first game, before losing the second match, 8-3.