Minneapolis — The Tigers didn’t care how it looked or how they got it done. After four straight losses, style points were immaterial.
By hook or crook, slop or slug, ball or brawl, they needed to win a baseball game in the worst way here Saturday afternoon.
And, by God, they did. They slopped and they slugged. They balled and they brawled (a little), and when the dust settled after some four hours, the Tigers were on the sunny side of a 5-4 score.
“That’s not how you’d draw it up, for sure,” manager Brad Ausmus said.