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 BOSTON (AP) - Jim Leyland wouldn't let the Detroit Tigers start worrying, even after a five-game losing streak left them in their longest slump of the season. "I think he realizes we don't need the added pressure," pitcher Nate Robertson said Monday night after snapping the Tigers' losing streak with a 7-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
"We came in here loose. Everybody's going to look to their leader, their manager. He's loose, and that helps us," Robertson said.
Leyland whistled his way around the dugout on Sunday during a loss to the White Sox that completed Chicago's three-game sweep and cut Detroit's lead in the AL Central to 5 1/2 games. On Monday, facing the Red Sox and 13 game-winner Josh Beckett, there wasn't much time for tension.
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