Houston — They wore pink Sunday to celebrate Mother’s Day around baseball. But it had to feel like Groundhog’s Day to the Tigers.
Wake up, go to the ballpark, play game, lose game.
It’s five in a row now, 12 of the last 14. There seems no end in sight.
Back-up shortstop Aledmys Diaz hit a two-out grand slam home run off reliever Drew Hutchison in the third inning and the Astros swept the Tigers out of Houston with a 5-0 win at Minute Maid Park.
The Tigers will drag the second-worst record in baseball (8-19) into an eight-game, seven-day homestand starting Monday at Comerica Park.