The Detroit Tigers’ first game of the four-game series against the not-quite-as-bad-as-last-year-but-still-not-great White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on Monday night saw the return of a familiar face, a boatload of home runs, and a departure from the tight games against the Royals this past weekend with an enjoyable and eventful 13-1 Tigers victory.
Jack Flaherty made his twelfth start for the Tigers. He’s been okay this year, and he’s definitely been striking a ton of guys out (10.9 K/9 innings), but the walks have been a problem (2.9/9IP). Typically he’ll give you six innings, and it won’t be dominating, shutdown stuff, but he’ll usually keep the Tigers in the game.