DETROIT — There will be stretches of the season when giving a team a three-run head-start in the first inning won’t seem like such a deep hole. But when your offense has managed three runs in a game just three times in the last three weeks, that hole might’ve looked like a canyon Thursday afternoon.
The Tigers on this day, though, climbed to the top of the canyon only to fall back in.
Oakland first baseman Seth Brown, against reliever Michael Fulmer, on a 3-2 pitch with a man on and two outs in the eighth inning, blasted a two-run home run to send the Athletics to a 5-3 win.
