In a miserable first half of baseball for Tigers reliever Mark Lowe, there’s at least this positive nugget.
He’s not alone.
Lowe already has allowed 10 home runs in his 28.2 innings, but he’s far from the only pitcher who’s been tagged over and over again this season.
Home runs in Major League Baseball are up, and up a lot — the major theme to the first three months of the 2016 baseball season.
A whopping 23 of the 30 major-league teams are averaging more than a home run per game. That’s up from just 14 a year ago, and just four in 2014.