The Tigers had been looking for any kind of spark to help lift them out of their midseason funk. Kerry Carpenter returned from his rehab assignment with Triple-A Toledo. Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson grew mustaches.

The Detroit Tigers will have top prospect Troy Melton as part of the rotation moving forward after a recent roster move.

Losing stinks, but realistically taking three of four on the road in Detroit with Max Scherzer looking vintage in the game you lose is a pretty strong outcome. Outside one brief wobble the Tigers couldn’t lay a finer on him.

They are tromping now onto ballfields at TigerTown in Lakeland, Florida – 19 of the 21 players who were drafted and signed by Detroit following this month’s MLB Draft.

We start writing these game recaps before the game is over — obviously, we want to get it out as soon as we can — and to try and change the Tigers’ fortunes, I have decided that today’s will be entirely in haiku form. Someone tried this a few years ago and I can’t remember if it worked or not, but I figured it was worth a shot.

Riley Greene is willing to anything to break the Detroit Tigers out of their funk. So, he shaved his dark beard and left a mustache.

The Tigers are the only MLB team in the modern era to have a 13-game span where they: were outscored by 50 or more were outhit by 50 or more had fewer than 25 XBH struck out 125 or more times They came into this stretch with the best record in MLB. pic.twitter.com/M3Ezaf4dVB

The Detroit Tigers activated outfielder Kerry Carpenter from the 10-day injured list prior to Sunday's game against the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Tigers have lost 12 of 13 games, and they squandered their best chance at a reset Saturday with Skubal on the mound.

Gleyber Torres hit a three-run homer off ex-Tiger Max Scherzer and the Tigers beat the Blue Jays, 10-4, to snap a 6-game skid.