Detroit — You can call it the Riley Greene effect if you want, the Tigers don’t really care. This was just long overdue.
After a long string of zeros, the Tigers finally put some crooked numbers the scoreboard, a lot of them. They scored a season-high 14 runs and snapped a six-game losing streak, beating the Texas Rangers, 14-7, on Saturday before an announced crowd of 28,179 at Comerica Park.
Greene, the Tigers’ top prospect, made his MLB debut and dumped an opposite-field single to shallow left field in his first at-bat. He ended up reaching base four times — two opposite-field singles (both off left-handed pitchers) and two walks.