Inconsistency.
That's what we've seen this year from the Tigers. One game, they're the 1961 Yankees with Roger Maris and Whitey Ford. They can't lose.
The next game they're the 1962 Mets; They can't win.
But Max Scherzer has been one of the few consistencies.
On Wednesday night in Toronto, Max "Getting-More-Amazing-Each-Game" Scherzer won his 13th game, upping his record to 13-0. Detroit beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-2.
Tom Maloney of the Toronto Globe and Mail writes:
Scherzer is otherwise attracting attention these days with a relentless attack on baseball’s history books. He set a franchise-record with a 13th consecutive win without a loss to start a season, the first to accomplish that feat since Roger Clemens went 14 straight for the Boston Red Sox in 1986.
“I don’t put too much stock in the win-loss record,” he said. “I judge a season on how I pitch and right now I’m doing a lot of things right, minimizing the walks. I’m giving the team a chance to win, and they’ve gone out every time and won.”
He has now logged 18 starts dating back to last season without a loss, tying a 73-year-old club record established by Bobo Newsom in 1940.
At The Detroit News, veteran beat writer Tom Gage ranks him as the Tigers' second most-valuable player -- nudged out of No. 1 by "the Cabrera Effect."
-- Allan Lengel
