After a tight series-opening win on Friday night in Cleveland, the Detroit Tigers looked to lock down the series win on Saturday night... which they did in another low-scoring affair, a 1-0 victory behind some sensational pitching.
Making his fifteenth start of the season for the Detroiters was Casey Mize. He’s achieved great results this year: coming into tonight he had a 2.86 ERA and the Tigers were 10-4 in games he’d started. However, I couldn’t help but notice that his FIP (fielding-independent pitching; basically, the ERA with an average defence behind him) was a full run higher at 3.