After what felt like a literal eternity of facing AL West teams and nobody else (thank the stars we don’t see the Angels for the rest of the year), facing the Tigers felt like a huge breath of fresh air. Yeah, Tim Beckham and Kristopher Negrón were manning the corners - 2019 continues to be the wildest - but we had a shiny new Tim Lopes at second base making his first big league start! Lopes had previously stood in the field for the ninth inning in yesterday’s contest, but he and his family still provided some #wholesomecontent in that brief time:
It was a same plan, different man night for Wade LeBlanc, who again came on following an opener.