Righty pitcher Tyson Ross is set to take the mound for the Detroit Tigers in Friday night’s series opener at Target Field. Ross was originally scheduled to start on Thursday against the Angels, but the Tigers decided to push back his start and called up Ryan Carpenter from Toledo to take the mound instead, and I think we all know how that turned out.
Maybe pushing Ross back an extra day was the right move by manager Ron Gardenhire. There’s no way of knowing, but if Ross had the same type of outing on Thursday against the Angels that Carpenter did, then it could have been devastating a pitcher already in desperate need of a rebound performance.