Detroit — Tigers manager AJ Hinch has been saying it all season — it's not always about how hard you hit it or how far — it's about moving baseballs forward, putting them in play, making the opposition have to make plays.
The Tigers, the lowest-scoring team in baseball (averaging 2.8 runs per game), kept putting balls in play Monday, some hard, some soft, they forced defensive mistakes and they kept finding ways to push runs across the plate.
"The game is action and we created some innings today," Hinch said after the Tigers beat the Central Division-leading Minnesota Twins, 7-5, in the first of a five-game, four-day set at Comerica Park.