Pittsburgh — Here was this crazy baseball team from Motown within a game of that upbeat .500 niche as Wednesday night’s second contest began.
But after a day and night of baseball that lasted eight hours and left a pitching staff feeling as if it had been through a washing machine, the Tigers were left with a doubleheader split at PNC Park, where they outlasted the Pirates, 13-10, in a dizzying first game, before losing the second match, 8-3.
“Yeah, we were in both games,” said Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire after his team used six pitchers in the first contest, and five in the second.