For the Tigers, it was misery in May ... and jacks in June.
The Tigers walloped a whopping 49 home runs in June, which is tied for the most in a single month in franchise history. This is a franchise, mind you, that is 126 years old and has played baseball in more than 700 months.
The Tigers had just 18 home runs in May, when they were 6-22. They were 15-11 in June, thanks, in large part, to the power surge — plus some really good starting pitching, with an exclamation point the last two nights in the Bronx by Casey Mize and Tarik Skubal.
The Tigers had just one game in May in which they hit more than one home run, and in that game, they hit two.
In June, the Tigers hit six once, five three times (including in Tuesday night's 9-3 romp), and four twice. Colt Keith even homered three times in one game. The Tigers, as a team, never even homered three times in a game in May.
The Tigers walloped a whopping 49 home runs in June, which is tied for the most in a single month in franchise history. This is a franchise, mind you, that is 126 years old and has played baseball in more than 700 months.
The Tigers had just 18 home runs in May, when they were 6-22. They were 15-11 in June, thanks, in large part, to the power surge — plus some really good starting pitching, with an exclamation point the last two nights in the Bronx by Casey Mize and Tarik Skubal.
The Tigers had just one game in May in which they hit more than one home run, and in that game, they hit two.
In June, the Tigers hit six once, five three times (including in Tuesday night's 9-3 romp), and four twice. Colt Keith even homered three times in one game. The Tigers, as a team, never even homered three times in a game in May.
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