Detroit Tigers players shot out of the gate with six wins in the team’s first eight games. The Tigers notched wins over Wei-Yin Chen, Jose Fernandez, Luis Severino and Gerrit Cole during the eight-game stretch.
Those eight games also included four road wins in National League cities against both the Miami Marlins and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Following that stretch, the Tigers lost seven of nine. Those nine games included three-game sets in Houston and in Kansas City. All six games were close, but Detroit only came away with a pair of wins.