{"id":654496,"date":"2026-03-31T14:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654496\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:01:24","slug":"game-5-preview-tigers-look-to-bounce-back-against-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654496\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 5 Preview: Tigers look to bounce back against Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Detroit Tigers floundered in the opening game of their road series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday night, as Justin Verlander was anything but in vintage form in the team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blessyouboys.com\/detroit-tigers-scores-standings\/87560\/detroit-tigers-recaps-justin-verlander-colt-keith-spencer-torkelson-dillon-dingler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9-6 loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They will get another shot on Tuesday night in the desert behind their former No. 1 draft pick, Casey Mize, who opens the campaign in the fifth and final spot of the starting rotation. The Snakes will send fellow right-hander Brandon Pfaadt to the mound opposite him, looking for the victory and his team\u2019s first series win of the nascent season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With just four games elapsed, the American League Central division has the Cleveland Guardians out to a half-game lead over the rest of the field with a 3-2 record, while Detroit and the Kansas City Royals are both 2-2 so far. The Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins inhabit the bottom portion of the standings, both at 1-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But the year is young! There is plenty of baseball to be played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With that in mind, take a look below at a brief comparison of Tuesday night\u2019s pitchers.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit Tigers (2-2) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (1-3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Game 5: RHP Casey Mize (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. RHP Brandon Pfaadt (0-0, 0.00 ERA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">* Note: Stats in the table below are Fangraphs\u2019 2026 projections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers floundered in the opening game of their road series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,82835,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-654496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-detroit-tigers-game-information","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116324161491216083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}