For a while, it was okay to call it a slump. We could say, “No big deal, they’ll turn it around.” Then, for a stretch there we could look at it and say “These are some must-win games” against a division rival, that the team subsequently lost. All of them. But we’re coming to a point right now where it’s not “we have to win to get the first seed in the postseason,” it’s “if we don’t start winning games, we might not even win the division.” Now, admittedly, a lot would have to go wrong for the Tigers over the next week for that to be a reality, but the fact that it’s not an impossibility says an awful lot about how bad this month has been. The Tigers, coming into Friday’s game, were 3-7 in their last 10 games. (The Guardians were 9-1.) The Atlanta Braves are a sub .500 team, fourth in the AL

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