None of that stopped Detroit, who'd dropped 4 of 5 walking in, from making a game of it.
Detroit grabbed a run in the 3rd and made it stand up until the Dodgers tied it in the 6th, and from there it turned into exactly the kind of low-scoring battle you'd expect from these two arms. It stayed 1-1 into the 9th, when the Tigers scratched across the winning run to walk it off, 2-1. Both teams finished with 6 hits, but a Dodgers error opened the door Detroit needed.
L.A. had already taken the series opener, so this one squares the 2-game set at a game apiece — a reminder that even the better roster on paper doesn't get to skip the 9th inning. For a Tigers team that had lost 4 of its last 5 walking in, it's the kind of result that makes a lost season a little more watchable down the stretch.
For the Dodgers, it's a shrug-and-move-on kind of loss — Snell did his job in his last time out, the record is still elite, and a single walk-off in Detroit in late August isn't changing anything about where this team is going. For the Tigers, beating an 81-win-caliber club with nothing on the line is about as good as this stretch of the schedule gets.