Chicago ― Like presidents, baseball managers don't age all that well. Take a picture at the beginning of the season and another at the end, and you'll see a stark difference. Just look at retired Jim Leyland, a Hall-of-Famer who looks a decade younger these days than when he was managing.

So, yes, Tigers manager AJ Hinch would prefer a few more laughers. Certainly, they're better for the complexion.

But he'll take the Tigers' record in one-run games, which improved to a major league-best 17-8 with Monday's 2-1 victory over the White Sox at Rate Field, where Spencer Torkelson's homer in the ninth inning was the difference.

"I mean, obviously, I wish we had less one-run games ... (it'd) just make for easier games," Hinch said Tuesday afternoon, before the scheduled (and rain-delayed) G

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