The Texas Rangers scored nine runs while the Detroit Tigers scored seven runs.
Jack Leiter is officially a big leaguer and we got to see the full Jack Leiter experience today where you can easily see that he has the great stuff that made him No. 2 overall in the 2021 MLB draft, but also the command comes and goes and if big league hitters are sitting on a fastball, even one with elite markers, they will hit it hard somewhere eventually.
Overall, Leiter’s line (3 2⁄3 IP, 8 H, 7 ER, 3 BB, 3 K on 85 pitches) feels worse than he pitched as he perhaps should have gotten out of his last inning unscathed but Leody Taveras couldn’t corral a two-out flyball to the deepest part of Comerica Park’s cavernous center field and that ended up bubbling over into a three-run outburst that let Detroit even the score.