Detroit — Notes, thoughts and items after the Tigers risked insurrection with an eighth-inning bullpen meltdown on Opening Day before pulling one out, 6-5, over the we-can-blow-it-too Red Sox at Comerica Park.
• How soon will Joe Jimenez arrive to help bail out an annually troubled back end relief corps for the Tigers?
A thought here was Jimenez would finish his apprenticeship at Triple-A Toledo sometime in May and be rushed, perhaps by medevac, to Comerica Park or to another big-league stop on the Tigers’ schedule.
That timetable has been expedited.