After an easy series-opening win on Monday night in St. Petersburg, this one had a little bit more drama: an early slim lead vanished, but a pair of late-inning home runs helped your Detroit Tigers come back to win 4-2 and ensure a series win.
Kenta Maeda got the nod for his fifth start of the season. Yes, he’s been disappointing so far, and yes, his previous start was a 2u2154-inning clunker against the Rangers, and yes, in 35 career March/April starts coming into tonight he’s had an OPS-against of .829 and an ERA of 5.07. But I’m generally an optimistic guy, and I think he has a good chance to eat some innings (even though, yes, he’s only topped 155 innings once, and that was in his age-28 year).