DETROIT — Tigers manager AJ Hinch was saying, hours before Monday night's game, that you can't worry about yesterday. You've gotta focus on today.
Of course, reality is, todays always eventually turn into yesterdays — and that's a problem for the Tigers.
For the second consecutive game, the Tigers were shut out — they haven't scored a run in 24 innings — and this time, making matters worse, it was by the Oakland A's, who came into the opener of an odd five-game series having lost nine straight. They beat the Tigers, 2-0, and Detroit now has lost six straight. Hinch and Javy Baez were ejected in the ninth inning of the latest loss, as Tigers' tempers flared.
