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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Tigers 7, Red Sox 4: Tigers snap 5-game losing streak
Detroit jumps on Boston starter Beckett early
BOSTON -- Jim Leyland wouldn't let the Detroit Tigers start worrying, even after a five-game losing streak left them in their longest slump of the season.
"I think he realizes we don't need the added pressure," pitcher Nate Robertson said Monday night after snapping the Tigers' losing streak with a 7-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
"We came in here loose. Everybody's going to look to their leader, their manager. He's loose, and that helps us," Robertson said.
Leyland whistled his way around the dugout on Sunday during a loss to the White Sox that completed Chicago's three-game sweep and cut Detroit's lead in the AL Central to 5 1/2 games. On Monday, facing the Red Sox and 13-game winner Josh Beckett, there wasn't much time for tension.
Curtis Granderson tripled on the first pitch of the game and the Tigers played like the team with the best record in baseball again, scoring three in the first off Beckett en route to a 5-0 lead.
"We might have gotten to Josh a little bit before he got settled in," Leyland said. "Sometimes with a great pitcher -- and he's a great pitcher -- if you get them before they get settled you have a chance. But if you let them get on a roll, you're probably done for the night."
Boston, which had won three in a row, fell two games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East.
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