Astros 5, Tigers 2: Another early lead squandered

Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty ImagesNew clothes, same issues. Bedecked, bedazzled, or bizarre looking, depending on your perspective, in their City Connect uniforms for the first time, the Tigers still played a very Tigers sort of game. They scratched out an early lead, got a good start to hold it, and did nothing more offensively while the bullpen leaked oil to lose the first of three on Friday night.

This shaped up as a pretty good pitching duel on paper, and so it played out. Casey Mize took on a tough lefty in Framber Valdez, and for most of the first six innings, they were in control of this one.

Mize got himself right into a jam, walking the first two hitters of the game, but worked through…