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Yusei Kikuchi was tagged with his ninth loss Saturday after allowing four runs on five hits over five-plus innings in the Toronto Blue Jays’ 7-3 defeat to the Detroit Tigers. Kikuchi (4-9) struck out eight and held the Tigers to a run through five innings before getting the hook with no outs in the sixth having loaded the bases with a hit, walk and hit batsman. Reliever Trevor Richards then surrendered a grand slam to Jake Rogers for a 5-0 Tigers lead. “I tried too hard to attack the corner of the zone and that left me behind in the count,” Kikuchi said. “There’s a mismatch between my performa…

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