DETROIT -- Feeling better? The Detroit Tigers sure do after a couple of weeks of good baseball.

That optimism would’ve been hard to imagine just three weeks ago.

After a 6-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on July 26 that featured another bullpen meltdown, the Detroit Tigers fell to 60-46. They had lost six in a row and 12 of their last 13. The malaise felt even worse because the skid came on both sides of the All-Star break. In an 18-day span, they had won only once.

The Tigers finished July with four straight wins and a sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks . But then they dropped back-to-back series, including a dispiriting loss to the Minnesota Twins , who had been stripped down at the trade deadline.

The prolonged slump raised questions: Did they do enough at the deadline ? Woul

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