In the bottom half of the first, Alex Sanchez led off with a single. Alex had attempted 56 steals this year, and has only been successful 36 times, a 64% SB rate. That’s not good enough. Sanchez is costing the Tigers runs, and it happened tonight. Rather than staying on first, he got caught for the 21st time this year. Ben Petrick then followed with a HR. If you are going to run that much, you have to be successful more than 2/3 of the time to make it worth while. The Tigers offense is so bad, they can’t afford the outs, yet the team’s success rate at stealing is only 55% now. They’d do a lot better standing pat at first.