Detroit – The Tigers got a brilliantly pitched game from starter Jordan Zimmermann Wednesday night. The kind of game they envisioned him pitching with regularity when they signed him to a $110-million contract before last season.
Of course, the way things are going for the team at present, it wasn’t good enough to win the game.
Zimmermann allowed a pair of sketchy runs in the first inning and almost literally nothing else through eight innings, but the Diamondbacks made it stand up, beating the Tigers 2-1 – their fifth loss in six games.
As he did Tuesday, former Tiger Fernando Rodney closed it out, striking out Justin Upton, Nick Castellanos and Andrew Romine.