Every time you look away from this team, you end up looking back. Every time a player gets hurt and you figure the Tigers will slide, they plug and shrug.
And now here they still are, a curiosity perhaps becoming something more than that. Flukes and goose vibes don’t last 73 games. The Tigers — picked to be among the worst in baseball, lest anyone forget — are 36-37 after a 3-1 victory over the White Sox Sunday, completing a three-game sweep. They’ve won five straight and are 2.5 games behind the first-place Indians as we near the midway point of the season.