By Justin Cousineau
In Play Magazine
The series has gone back and forth with the Tigers losing the first game on Friday, winning on Saturday and suffering a tough loss that came in the early innings on Sunday.
Austin Jackson started a great first inning for the Tigers hitting his first major league home run just one pitch after the Texas broadcast team commented on his 29 strikeouts for the season. Jackson's homer set the stage for a three run inning. The Rangers answered back with two runs of their own to keep things close early.
In the bottom of the 2nd inning Rangers third baseman Michael Young made Rick Porcello pay for loading the bases. He hit a bases clearing double to put his team up 6-4 and that would be the dagger through the heart as the Tigers could not catch up for the remainder seven innings.
Jim Leyland has been struggling to see his rotation pitch late into games to help them get on a winning streak. He's still looking for guys like Jeremy Bonderman to get on some track as far as pitching goes.
There are things the Tigers are doing well this season and many things to build on with their first five batters all hitting above .300 and Cabrera leading the league in RBI's. As far as April is concerned if they can split the series against Texas on Monday and win the series against division leader Minnesota Twins the Tigers can take the Division lead and consider the opening month a success.
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