The lowest scoring team in the major leagues lived up to that billing again tonight, mustering just one run and eight hits in falling to the Milwaukee Brewers, 3-1, at Tiger Stadium.
The Tigers (7-12), who have now lost three in a row and 10 of their past 14, have scored 55 runs this season, by far the lowest in the majors.
The latest pitcher to stymie the Tigers was Brewers righty Pete Broberg.
Broberg went seven innings, yielding a run and six hits. The bullpen tandem of Ed Rodriguez and Tom Murphy pitched the eighth and ninth, respectively. Both innings were relatively uneventful.
In addition to not scoring runs, the Tigers have the lowest slugging percentage (.331) in baseball as well.
"There's not much you can do except fight your way through this," said Tigers manager Ralph Houk after the game. "If I could wave a magic wand and make runs appear, I would."
So would Tigers pitching, whose team ERA of 3.61 is very respectable.
George Scott scored two runs for the Brewers
Tigers starter Joe Coleman (1-4) pitched good enough to win on most nights---and on most teams. Coleman pitched until two outs into the ninth, surrendering all three runs (only one earned) but the Brewers managed just six hits off the right-hander.
Two Tigers errors led to two Brewers runs in the fourth. In the bottom half of the inning, struggling first baseman Nate Colbert (.118) led off with a double and scored on a Dan Meyer ground out.
That was it for the Tigers offense.
The Brewers scored their final run in the ninth, when Pedro Garcia singled past a diving shortstop Tom Veryzer, plating George Scott.
The Tigers fell to 2-8 at home.
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Tigers record: 7-12 (actual 11-8)
Home: 2-8
Road: 5-4
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