Just when everyone was starting to let themselves feel good about the Detroit Tigers, Matthew Boyd provided a bit of a reality check on Friday night with one of the worst outings of his career. We’ve seen some bad ones, but the left-hander was knocked out of the game with only four outs recorded and the rest went as you’d expect as the Mariners rolled over the Tigers 9-2 in this best-of-three at Comerica Park.
From the start, Boyd had little idea where anything was going and grew ever more shy of the strike zone as his outing progressed.