Boston — Oh, they made a gallant effort, all of the Tigers, beginning with a pitcher, Jordan Zimmermann, who toughed out six sturdy innings on a lovely spring evening in Back Bay.
But these, remember, are the Boston Red Sox. This is Fenway Park. And the idea three runs were going to hold up Friday against a team as prone to sticking it to Detroit as the boys from Boston was a bit silly.
Whatever victory fantasies had been conjured by their Motown guests dissolved in a flash when Boston went on a three-run binge in the eighth to sock it to Detroit, 5-3.