After losing eight games in a row and falling out of first place in the American League Central for the first time in forever, the Detroit Tigers looked to salvage at least one win from this miserable series. Well, a pair of early home runs and some excellent performances out of the bullpen will usually do the trick, as it did on Thursday night in Cleveland, as the Tigers beat the Guardians 4-2.

Desperate for any kind of starting pitching help, the Tigers sent Troy Melton to the mound to make his fourth start and sixteenth appearance overall. The Tigers have been trying to limit his innings, so he probably wasn’t going to go too deep into this game (and he didn’t). The results coming into tonight have been mixed: his WHIP was an even 1, and his ERA was 2.79. But on the flip side he’d give

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