Baltimore, Md. – Under different circumstances, manager AJ Hinch very likely would’ve pulled starting pitcher Matt Manning after five laborious innings Wednesday night.
But one of the chores left for the Tigers this month is to squeeze as many healthy innings as they can out of the second-year right-hander who missed more than three months with shoulder inflammation. This was his 12th start and he’d thrown just 57.1 innings.
The more innings he can log before the end of the year the fewer the restrictions he would have going into 2023. At least that was the prevailing theory.