Good afternoon and welcome to possibly our strangest start time of the year so far. Young Jackson Jobe was on the mound for the Tigers, revisiting the park where he made his postseason debut in.... rough form, and he was up against A.J. Blubaugh (“blue-baw” if you’re wondering, as I was) for the Astros. Today’s game was Blubaugh’s big league debut, so it was rookie vs. rookie for the afternoon.
In the top of the first, the Tigers went 1-2-3. In the home half, the Astros wasted no time making Jobe revisit his first visit to the park.