DETROIT — Tigers rookie starter Beau Brieske held a 4.93 ERA and 0-5 record through the first eight starts of his major league career, not exactly the warmest welcome into Major League Baseball.
But the young right-hander might just have turned a corner Saturday afternoon, tossing 5 2/3 scoreless innings as the Tigers beat the Blue Jays, 3-1, before a crowd of 30,738 — the third-largest at Comerica Park this season behind opening day (43,480) and Miguel Cabrera's 3,000th-hit game (37,566).
"(Brieske) pitched extremely well today against a really, really hard lineup," manager AJ Hinch said postgame. "We played some good defense behind him, as well.
