Losing To Bad Teams At Home A Formula For Disaster For Detroit Tigers
By: Pat Caputo
This isn't 2009. The Minnesota Twins are awful. It's one thing for the Tigers to go on the road and essentially split nine games (4-5) at Seattle, Oakland and Chicago. It's another to come home and immediately play awful baseball against the Twins, who might have trouble winning the International League.
This isn't meant to necessarily defend Rick Porcello, the Tigers' starting pitcher Wednesday night, but that was "no-chance-for-the-pitcher" fielding by the Tigers. Porcello and Doug Fister get a lot of ground balls. Nobody is expecting the Tigers to display great range, but they must make the routine plays.
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