Detroit Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire may have just found the most apt comparison for his team’s season to date.
After a 6-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday, Gardenhire compared their play to that of baseball’s most famous fictional losers, The Bad News Bears. Here is what he said, per Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free Press:
"We weren't pretty," Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We just had one of those 'Bad News Bears' nights. There you go, there's your quote for the night."
— anthony fenech (@anthonyfenech) August 15, 2018
The Tigers fell to 20 games below .500 on the year with the loss (50-70) and are now a whopping 21.5 games out of a playoff spot. Adding insult to injury is that the White Sox are even lower than them in the standings at 43-76.
August has also been particularly brutal for Detroit, as they have gone just 3-8 on the month so far. Not surprisingly, this isn’t the first time that Gardenhire has had to turn to humor to cope with his team’s struggles this season either.
