After a Friday night win assisted by some boneheaded baserunning, a warm Star Wars Day Saturday afternoon contest featured more anemic hitting and a 5-1 loss.
Making his thirteenth start for the Tigers this season was Kenta Maeda, and it’s been a rough, rough go of it lately for him. Before today he’d only pitched into the sixth three times, and coming into today’s game, in his previous four starts — okay, he lasted two pitches of one of ‘em, but we’ll count that — he pitched a total of 13 u2154 innings, gave up 10 runs on 14 hits, and his OPS-against was .