The Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay Rays split the first two of their three-game weekend series with the hometown boys prevailing on Friday night behind a home run barrage, 10-4, while the visitors struck back on Saturday against Casey Mize for a 7-2 victory. Now on Sunday, the two tangle once more to see who comes away with the series win.
It is an early one in the Motor City today with a lunchtime hour start, so we will keep it short and sweet. Another former prized pitching prospect in Tarik Skubal takes the mound for the Old English D while the Rays send a young gun of their own to the bump in 21-year-old Luis Patiño.