Riley Greene was deep into the first slump of his big-league career when he struck out swinging on a full-count pitch from Bryan Shaw in the seventh inning of the second game in Monday's doubleheader.
The Detroit Tigers, ahead by two runs at the time, had scored two runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth inning. Greene craved a big insurance RBI, and on a down-and-in cutter from Shaw he swung and missed for the second of his three strikeouts. He also struck out on three pitches outside the zone in the first and three pitches inside the zone in the ninth.