Detroit — If you wondered what it might look like if the Tigers ever put all the pieces together for one game — witness their 13-4 pounding of the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night.
“Yeah, I guess,” left fielder Justin Upton said. “We did our job tonight. We put together good at-bats and we got rewarded for it.”
You want offense? In the fourth and fifth innings alone, the Tigers sent 18 batters to the plate, scored 10 runs, banged out nine hits and took advantage of two walks and an error.
“It can be contagious,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said.