The Rangers' ace du jour lived up to his advance billing, holding the Tigers to one run on two hits in six-plus innings.
The 10-3 loss proved to be a composite of everything that's wrong so far this season:
The starting pitching after Verlander and Scherzer; with Doug Fister still out; specifically, the hazards of starting two rookies. In his second outing, Adam Wilk wasn't sharp. He was, in fact, just short of disastrous, lucky to be leaving after four innings and ten Rangers hits down only 3-1.
The second base situation. The three who share the position -- Hinge, Rugburn, and Ramon Santiago -- are hitting a total of 299. Total, not average. Hinge .100, Rugburn .081, Santiago .118.
Daniel Schlereth, The Gas Man, who has a category of awful all to himself. Tonight, with the Tigers down 5-1 after seven and the game still winnable -- anything, after all, is possible with Fielder and Cabrera lurking in the 3-4 spots -- he entered and allowed five runs. You could literally see the air go out of Comerica, as fans poured out of the place, off to their SUVs, freeway bound away from downtown Detroit to their safe suburbs.
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