The Los Angeles Dodgers are the best team in baseball. The Detroit Tigers are not.
There are many reasons for this, many more than were accounted for Saturday afternoon at Comerica Park, but a brief glimpse into the big gap between the two teams came in the top of the seventh inning.
Neither team had scored in a pitcher’s duel highlighted by the flames coming out of Michael Fulmer’s fastball. Fulmer was an out away from pitching seven scoreless innings when Curtis Granderson hit a seemingly harmless, sky-high pop-up into the sun at third base. But third base has been quite harmful for the Tigers’ defense this season and Nick Castellanos lost the ball.