Everything that could go wrong for the Tigers went right today as the team got clutch hitting from a couple big bats and good pitching performances to take three of four from the flu-depleted Boston Red Sox.

The Tigers bullpen makes us sad too. (Photo by Alexandra Simon)

The shaky bullpen had been much of the story through the first week of the season, as set-up man Bruce Rondon struggled mightily and failed to lock down the eighth inning. Actually, pretty much everyone not named Wilson has had their struggles early on in the young 2017 season.

After two incredibly disappointing performances, Rondon was demoted to Toledo for wunderprospect Joe Jimenez early Monday morning and seemingly under a mandate to lose weight and improve his conditioning.

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The Detroit Tigers wasted a solid performance from starter Daniel Norris—Norris clearly didn’t have his best stuff but gave the Tigers six innings of 3-run ball—and a Nicholas Castellanos go-ahead homerun when Bruce Rondon and Kyle Ryan stumbled in the eighth inning.

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Opening Day in Detroit has become somewhat of a holiday for Tigers fans, complete with hours of tailgating, food and drink—lots of drink—and raucous fun. Oh, yeah, and some Tigers baseball, too.

Today’s home opener featured the 2016 Rookie of the Year winner—no, not Gary Sanchez—Michael Fulmer. Fulmer would be taking on a vaunted Boston Red Sox lineup that was recently bitten by the flu bug. Bitten so badly, in fact, one of their players had to be placed on the 10-day disabled list!

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Yeah, Thursday’s game was a major dud. Matt Boyd struggled to throw strikes and got bombed, then Anibal Sanchez came in and got bombed all over the park. The vaunted offense couldn’t muster much off James Shields. The less said about today’s game, the better, actually.

(The season’s not actually over, though. It just felt like that on twitter.)

Stay tuned for today’s Game Graph. It’ll be a real humdinger, as Jim Price likes to say!

The Tigers looked soggy in every sense of the word—and your friendly neighborhood blog was bombarded by a couple randos and harangued for not giving up on the team two games into the season—but no matter. TOMORROW IS THE HOME OPENER.