Garret Craig

The Detroit Tigers lost a rare pitchers duel last night to the Kansas City Royals, 3-2. With the loss, they fall to 16-23, 7 games below the .500 mark. They finally got a good start from their pitching (Nate Robertson went a strong 7), but the offense failed to convert their nine hits into more than two runs.

The offense (projected before the season to possibly score over 1,000 runs), has shown signs of coming out of their slump since Curtis Granderson came back from the DL on April 23rd, but has still been kept under 4 runs 10 times in those 18 games. You may also find it interesting that they have lost all 10 of those games. For the entire season, they have only lost three times when scoring more than 3 runs.

The bottom line is inconsistency. They score 10 runs, then only 1 run, then all the way up to 6 runs, and then they fall to 2 runs for the next two games. Their starting pitching isn’t helping either, with the worst ERA in baseball. A Tigers starting pitcher has not yet recorded a complete game, which makes them the only team not to have a starter go a complete 9 innings in the AL.

Does this sound like a team that cost $150,000,000? I didn’t think so.