Blue Jays try to continue win streak, play Tigers
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Jack Flaherty delivered six shutout innings, Gleyber Torres hit a three-run homer, and the Tigers poured out their frustrations in a seven-run eighth inning en route to a 10-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon at Comerica Park.
Tarik Skubal threw 6 scoreless innings (helped by a Matt Vierling web gem) but Tigers hitters mustered two hits in a 6-1 loss.
The Toronto Blue Jays have placed All-Star catcher Alejandro Kirk on the seven-day injured list with a concussion.
DETROIT -- Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk was injured after taking a foul ball off his mask in the second inning of Saturday’s game against the Detroit Tigers. Kirk was placed on the seven-day concussion injured list on Sunday.
We can adapt and play through anything that happens.” That will have to the mantra for Tyler Heineman and the Blue Jays over the next week at least, after losing Alejandro Kirk to the 7-day IL prior to Sunday’s 10-4 loss to the Tigers.
Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman put on a vintage performance on Saturday to outdoes Tarik Skubal and the Tigers.
And there it was. That spark. That ignitor. That one big, scoreboard-changing swing that might lift the Tigers’ offense out of this recent morass.