That gap showed up early and stayed up. Detroit got its only run in the fourth inning, but Los Angeles answered right back and kept piling on — a 2-run sixth and a 3-run eighth turned a tight afternoon into a laugher, and by the time Detroit's bullpen got involved there was nothing left to make it interesting.
The final score put a bow on a series Los Angeles controlled 2 games to 1, and it reads differently depending on which side of the standings you're sitting on. For the Dodgers, it's one more sign the rotation can survive its injury list as long as Glasnow keeps pitching like this. For the Tigers, it's one more afternoon that makes the AL Central chase feel further away than it did two weeks ago.
Detroit's recent stretch tells the same story its manager has been fighting in front of cameras all month — a team that flashes signs of life and then can't stack enough of them together. A.J. Hinch has pushed back publicly on any talk of packing it in, but arithmetic doesn't care about a pep talk, and Sunday's line score did nothing to change the math.
None of that changes what Los Angeles needs down the stretch — length from Glasnow, arms trickling back healthy, and lineup performances like Sunday's to cover for a battered pitching staff. Detroit, for its part, gets to regroup and start looking toward next season a little earlier than it hoped.