After an off-day (I imagine) spent taking an old-timey steam train from Detroit to Baltimore, with the players playing gin-rummy and taking turns bashing out Tin Pan Alley songs on an upright piano, the Tigers ran headlong into the Orioles’ hotter-than-hot pitching. Coming into the game they’d shut out opponents for 26 straight innings, but the Tigers broke that streak late in tonight’s game; alas, they then let the game slip away with some timely Baltimore hitting, losing 2-1.
Michael Lorenzen made his second start of the regular season for Detroit. The first one didn’t go so well: he gave up six runs in four innings while knocking off the rust after a groin injury derailed a good chunk of his spring training.