No such worries today.
The Red Sox ran away from the Tigers, 7-0 this afternoon at Tiger Stadium, giving the Bosox the three-game sweep. Boston right-hander Rick Wise pitched a complete-game, two-hitter. In fact, the Tigers had more errors (three) than hits.
The Red Sox banged out 13 hits, led by rookie Fred Lynn, who followed up his four-hit game on Saturday with three more on Sunday.
Boston blew open the game with three runs in the fourth and two in the fifth, extending their lead to 6-0 and knocking out starter Lerrin LaGrow (1-2).
Wise, meanwhile, handcuffed the offensively challenged Tigers, whose 38 runs scored rank them next to last in the American League.
Only one Tigers base runner advanced as far as second base all afternoon.
"Couldn't do a thing with him," lamented Tigers manager Ralph Houk of Wise. "He was, basically, two pitches away from a no-hitter."
In fact, the Tigers didn't get a hit until the fifth inning, when they got both of them, and singles.
Wise walked one and struck out five in his command performance.
On offense, the Red Sox didn't need much but got plenty. The biggest blow was Bernie Carbo's two-out, two-run single in the fourth, making the score 4-0.
The Tigers are now off to Baltimore for two games. Maybe it's a good thing; the Tigers are 2-7 at home but 3-1 on the road, though all four of those games were in one city (New York).
"We've played nine of our first thirteen games at home," Houk said, "and we didn't take advantage of it, at all."
The Red Sox, and Wise, helped see to that.
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Tigers record: 5-8 (actual 8-5)
Home: 2-7
Away: 3-1
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