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Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres 3-0 by Joe Musgrove

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Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres 3-0 by Joe Musgrove

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After a weekend celebrating the franchise’s 1984 World Series title, the Detroit Tigers arrived in San Diego to face the defeated franchise in that championship series.

It didn’t go so well.

The Tigers had just six hits — and just three against San Diego starter Joe Musgrove in six innings — in a 3-0 loss to the Padres at Petco Park on Monday night.

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Musgrove struck out eight batters to improve to 2-0 in five starts since returning from the disabled list last month. San Diego got one inning each from Jason Adam, Tanner Scott and Robert Suarez, with Suarez earning his 31st save in 34 chances.

By improving to 79-61, the Padres took a one-game lead over Arizona in the National League wild-card race after the Diamondbacks lost 11-6 at home to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The top wild-card finisher will get to open the playoffs at home.

Detroit remained five games behind Kansas City, which lost to AL Central leader Cleveland on Monday, for the American League’s final wild-card spot.

Oh, that bullpen

Reliever Brenan Hanifee (0-1), who replaced opener Tyler Holton in the third inning, was charged with the loss after allowing an unearned run in the third inning. Ty Madden handled most of the innings for Detroit (70-69), pitching four scoreless innings before being charged with two insurance runs in the eighth inning.

Luis Arraez gave San Diego the only run it needed in the bottom of the third inning. After Mason McCoy hit an infield hit and moved to second base on a throwing error by Hanifee, Arraez sent a 1-2 pitch to right to score McCoy.

Arraez also helped lead off the eighth inning. Kyle Higashioka led off with a double and McCoy beat out a bunt for a single before Arraez hit an 0-2 pitch through an infield for his second RBI single. Manny Machado added the final run with a two-out single to right by Jason Foley that set up Arraez.

The Tigers squandered the few scoring opportunities they had, going 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position and seven men stranded. Their best opportunity came in the fourth inning when they put two men on the field with no outs, but Musgrove got a pair of flyouts and then struck out Spencer Torkelson.

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