We took a little bit from the Game 3 playbook in New York. We score first, they answer right away with a five spot in their bottom half of the inning. And we know what five runs means with the offense we have. You might as well call the mercy rule.
Sean Manaea has now been painfully average after putting up quality outing after quality outing over the first two months of the season. That's two times he's gotten bombed, and against AL teams, no less. First Seattle got him, now Detroit. Sean didn't make it out of the fourth, allowing nine runs, though most were unearned, thanks to an error by Hoz. That's a 5-5 record, with a 4.33 ERA. Not good enough. Adding injury to injury, MacKenzie Gore seems to have gotten hurt following his relief stint. No surprise, his velocity was down by a few miles, which the Tigers took advantage of. That said, we might want to rest him for a while. Out of all of our starting pitchers, only three have consistently impressed me: Musgrove, Darvish, and Gore. Those were the pitchers I envisioned to pitch in the postseason for us. Manaea is only average now, and Snell could be a weapon, but likely won't be. Leaves us with the other wild card, our starting pitcher for today's game, Clevy. What a difference Clevy could make on this rotation, although we need to know which Clevy we're going to get. I think we might have to use Nick Martinez for more spot starts.
Even so, I think our gamble on winning pitchers' duals might be coming to an end, simply because a) we can't score runs to save our lives and b) our pitchers have become hittable. Add to that the fact that Musgrove hasn't won a game in ages, and we might want to focus on getting somebody like Juan Soto.
This was Crone's homecoming, from what I can tell. Not the homecoming any of us imagined. C'mon, guys. These are the 2022 Tigers, not the 1984 version.
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