— As he often does, Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler put it straight.
“We need to win every game,” he said Saturday night. “I know it gets rhetorical, but you have to win every game regardless of what happens during the course of a game. We need to win them all.
“This league is very competitive and it comes down to one or two games at the end of the season.”
So the Tigers aren’t accepting pity or excuses just because they happen to have four starters on the disabled list — shortstop Jose Iglesias (concussion), first baseman Miguel Cabrera (groin), center fielder JaCoby Jones (lip laceration) and right fielder J.