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Tigers return for Opening Day with momentum: 'Tell Detroit we're coming'

Free Press sports writer Anthony Fenech breaks down the Tigers’ 4-3 start, after taking two of three from the Yankees in the Bronx, April 3, 2019. Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press

NEW YORK — The boombox, still brand spanking new, sat next to Shane Greene’s locker, playing rap lyrics perhaps louder than ever before, one in particular about hanging ‘L’s’ — losses — on nobody in particular.

They ordered it while riding the bus to their pre-season workout a week ago in Toronto, a gift to the guys from Greene, back-end bullpen partner Joe Jimenez and super-utilityman Niko Goodrum.