{"id":292150,"date":"2026-06-01T19:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292150\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:58:05","slug":"detroit-tigers-head-south-to-take-on-tampa-bay-rays-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292150\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers head south to take on Tampa Bay Rays this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Detroit Tigers ended May in a most miserable fashion, falling to the Chicago White Sox on the road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blessyouboys.com\/detroit-tigers-scores-standings\/91818\/detroit-tigers-recap-white-sox-keider-montero-drew-anderson-spencer-torkelson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-1<\/a>, to complete the sweep while finishing the month with just six wins in 28 tries. I have nothing further to say on the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Monday, the team heads to Florida to take on the best team in the American League \u2014 the Tampa Bay Rays \u2014 in a three-game weekday series to open up June. The Rays have actually struggled of late, losing five of their last seven, including a three-game sweep by the Orioles in Baltimore. However, they did take two of three from the Los Angeles Angels at home last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It looks like the Tigers will start with a bullpen game in the opener, as right-hander Ty Madden is slated to make his fourth appearance and first start. It will only be the second start of the 26-year-old\u2019s career and first-ever appearance against Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He will be up against fellow righty Griffin Jax, who will be making his seventh start in a total of 18 appearances this season. All of his 2025 starts have come over his last six outings, in which the 31-year-old has posted a 1.71 ERA and 3.21 FIP over 21 innings, allowing 17 hits (one home run) and eight walks while striking out 17 batters; he has reached the five-inning mark twice while throwing under three frames in three games over that stretch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jax faced Detroit twice last season \u2014 both one-inning relief efforts \u2014 allowing just one run on three hits and no walks while striking out six in those two appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Take a look at how the two relievers-turned-starters match up on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit Tigers (22-38) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (36-20)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Time (ET): 6:40 p.m.<br \/>Place: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida<br \/>SB Nation Site: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.draysbay.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DRaysBay<\/a><br \/>Media: Detroit SportsNet, MLB.TV, Tigers Radio Network<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Game 61: RHP Ty Madden (0-0, 2.38 ERA) vs. RHP Griffin Jax (1-3, 3.60 ERA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers ended May in a most miserable fashion, falling to the Chicago White Sox on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[123390,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-292150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-detroit-tigers-game-information","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}