Detroit — Accountability matters. It's one of those intangibles you can't measure in an algorithm, but over the course of a long baseball season can keep a team cohesive and moving forward.
The Tigers were beaten 5-2 by the Chicago White Sox Saturday, on a chilly afternoon at Comerica Park. Afterward both starting pitcher Casey Mize and shortstop Javy Báez, though neither at blame for the loss, offered mea culpas.
"I just made too many mistakes, honestly," said Mize, whose four innings of scoreless work was bookended by two, two-run bursts. "Too many mistakes led to runs.