The Detroit Tigers are coming home this week, and the welcome probably isn’t going to be real warm after getting swept in a four-game set with the Houston Astros. Things couldn’t be going any worse after the Tigers entered the season looking to establish themselves as a solid team set up to contend in the years ahead. All that is still on the table, but hopes for an early playoff chase are hanging by a thread. If the club can’t rip off a pretty good stretch of winning baseball over the next two weeks, thoughts will already be turning to the trade deadline and the draft.
Tigers vs. Athletics preview: Time is wasting on a turnaround
