"I need to do a better job of making pitches with guys in scoring position," said Fulmer, whose fate fell on an Adrian Gonzalez seventh-inning RBI single.
He didn't care that the runner who scored, former Tiger Curtis Granderson, reached on a two-base error charged when third baseman Nicholas Castellanos lost a two-out popup in the sun. What bothered him was his pitching after that, and what he perceived as his struggle to get the out he needed to make up for it.
Five days after giving up five runs in as many innings at Texas, Fulmer had his best outing in five weeks.