Seven runs and ten hits in three innings from Max Scherzer (final 9-5 Royals).
Sunday, the unacceptable totals were seven runs and eight hits in five innings off Brad Penny, and the four runs David Pauley allowed in two innings (final 11-4 Twins).
Wins by the White Sox and Indians, in well-pitched, low-scoring games (Sox 3 Twins 0, Indians 2 Athletics 1) reduced the Tiger lead to five games over the Sox, who climbed over the Indians into second place on Sunday and hold it tonight by a half game over the Tribe.
The baseball fan remembers 2006 when, on August 29, the Tigers' ten game lead of three weeks earlier had been cut in half. And 2009; high-water mark seven games on September 6, lead gone by season's end, first place lost in the infamous Game 163 against the Twins.
And he thinks of The Miracle Worker and The Resident Managerial Genius, on whose watch another collapse may be brewing, and the contract extensions both received with first place far from clinched.
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