Detroit Tigers Struggling
The Detroit Tigers continued to struggle Wednesday night, losing to the Kansas City Royals 2-0. The sixth shutout of the season brought their string of scoreless innings to 16. The Tigers have lost nine of their last 11 games. In Wednesday’s days, they failed to score despite getting six hits and leaving eight on base.
The loss went to Justin Verlander who, at 1-7 for the season, has lost more games than he did all of last year when he went 18-6.
At 16-24, the Tigers are in last place in the American League Central Division, five games behind first place Cleveland and 2.5 games behind the 18-21 Royals.
