Detroit – Walks kill.
Michael Fulmer has talked about it all season and has worked hard to eliminate them. After walking 13 in his first seven starts this season, he’d walked three in his last five starts.
Then Saturday happened. Pitching on eight days of rest, after getting treatment for shoulder bursitis, Fulmer walked four Tampa Bay hitters, the most hurtful was a lead-off walk to Steven Souza, Jr., in the seventh, after he had him in an 0-2 hole.
Souza would come around to score, as would the man who drove him home — Daniel Robertson — in a two-run burst that sent the Rays to a 3-2 win over the Tigers.