Hamels usually doesn't require much run support -- he is 20-2 since 2014 when his team scores at least three runs for him -- but he needed every run his offense gave him vs. Detroit. Hamels allowed all six Tigers runs in six innings, the most runs he's allowed and the fewest innings he's pitched in a start as a Ranger.
"It's not what you want to be able to do at this time," Hamels said. "Especially with the way things have been going and the way I've been feeling, not to be able to go out there and put up the type of performance I would expect.