There’s a line in Bull Durham in which, on a bus, a hyped-up Nuke LaLoosh exclaims to Crash Davis, “I love winnin’, man! ... You know what I’m sayin’? It’s, like, better than losing?!” Well, the Guardians tied Saturday’s game late and scored a bunch of runs in the tenth inning; the Tigers tried to come back but it was too little and too late, as the visitors took the third game too, 7-5 in ten innings. Ol’ Nuke was right — and it especially stings to lose to a division rival.
Casey Mize, just coming off a stint on the IL for a hamstring strain, made his eighth start of the season for the Tigers.