If you leave the bases loaded without scoring in one inning, perhaps you can write it off as bad luck. If you do it twice in a game it's a bad trend. If you do it four times in a game you're not going to win. Sure enough, the Tigers stranded 15 base runners and wasted fine pitching by Matt Thachet and Tom West in a 6-2 loss to Shipley. We have three games next week in which to break out of this clutch hitting funk.