'Really frustrating': Three-run fifth spoils quality outing by Tigers' Casey Mize

Chicago — The topic was rookie right-hander Casey Mize, who went into his start against the White Sox Thursday having been tagged for 11 runs in 9\u2154 innings in the previous two.

“He’s a perfectionist by nature,” manager AJ Hinch said before the game. “I don’t think mental fortitude is in question. I think the acceptance that there is a failure component to the game and that you have to move on and don’t drag a pitch into the next rep.

“That’s something he is going to continue to battle himself with.”

Yep.

Mize was brilliant for four innings, locking horns with arguably the stingiest pitcher in baseball, lefty Carlos Rodon. And then he got beat in the fifth when the White Sox scored three…