Tigers’ Ty Madden Effective In MLB Debut

Tigers righthander Ty Madden held the White Sox to four hits and two runs, only one of which was earned, in five innings in his MLB debut. A fielding error by Spencer Torkelson in the first helped get Madden off to a rocky start, as Andrew Vaughn hit a sac fly to drive in Luis Robert. Madden got into another jam in the third, as he gave up a single and a walk before Vaughn drove in a second run with an RBI single. But Madden struck out Gavin Sheets to leave two runners stranded in the third, and he stranded single baserunners in the fourth and fifth before departing. If there was a cause for concern in Madden’s debut, it was his struggle to miss bats. He sat at 92-94 mph with his fastball, generating no swings and misses from the 46 four-seamers he threw. He relied heavily on his 82-84 mph slider, throwing it for more strikes and getting five of his six swings and misses with it.