DETROIT – Jackson Jobe may be a rookie cutting his teeth at the big-league level but his accountability and self-evaluation skills are advanced.

Coors Field in Denver has been a hellscape for countless pitchers through the years and he felt its wrath on Wednesday night, getting tagged for a career-worst six runs and eight hits in 3.2 innings.

And you don’t have to work in a pitching lab to see that the high altitude had a debilitating impact on his pitch mix, especially on his four-seamer and slider.

“It definitely impacts every single one of your pitches,” Jobe said Sunday. “But I wouldn’t go as far as to say that was the reason I was terrible. But it makes a difference. I don’t know the science behind it, but everything pretty much just moves less.

“It’s a tough place to pitch.”

His four-seamer seemed flatter. The sliders he intended to finish outside the zone ended up over the heart of the plate. He never got a feel for his knuckle-curve.

But then again…

“Casey (Mize) went six innings and Keider (Montero) threw super well,” Jobe said, referencing the Tigers’ starters in the Thursday doubleheader. “It’s not the end of the world. The altitude didn’t help me, but I was bad regardless of that.”

That’s a healthy outlook. Jobe didn’t simply flush the last start because of the environment. He took it as another harsh lesson leading into his next start Monday against the Red Sox at Comerica Park.

“I’m going to try and be aggressive,” Jobe said. “I trust my stuff. I feel like there’s been some things the past two games that didn’t go my way and resulted in a run or two. Just stay within myself and keep executing.”

Jobe has had back-to-back short outings after missing two turns through the rotation for workload management reasons. In light of that, manager AJ Hinch was asked if the start Monday carried a little extra weight, just for the sake of Jobe’s psyche.

“I see it more of a big start because it’s the first game of a series against a really good team,” Hinch said. “I think he’s going to be fine tomorrow and I think he’s going to be fine over time. This is all learning curves for him.”

Learning, Hinch said, the nuances of execution relative to his own unique pitch mix.

“The other side (opposing teams) has a longer history of watching him,” Hinch said. “And the sophisticated game plans can eliminate certain things if you can’t land certain pitches often enough or you don’t throw it often enough or you don’t mix your pitches a certain way.

“You become very predictable and this league will remind you that it’s the best league in the world.”

Jobe has all the weapons he needs to navigate any lineup two and three times through a game. In the last couple of starts, though, he has, for a variety of reasons, become primarily a fastball-slider pitcher.

“For Jackson, it’s learning how to pound the zone and be unpredictable and have the ability to audible along the way and not just do the same thing over and over again,” Hinch said. “It’s a learning curve and he’s getting better at it.

“That’s more important to me than one start tomorrow. Just that he continues to learn how to pitch at this level.”

One thing that is becoming increasingly clear, Jobe is more fueled by failure than defeated by it.

“I hope I never have a bad outing ever again,” he said. “But all the evidence in baseball says it’s a tough sport and things happen. It’s part of the game. Move forward.”