Boyd: Need to make better adjustments

DETROIT — With uncertainty looming over the Tigers’ starting rotation, youngsters have delivered impressive outings on consecutive nights. Matt Boyd threw 6 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on six hits Thursday night in a 5-4 loss to the Yankees.

Boyd took a perfect game into the fifth inning, and a no-hit bid into the sixth before Rob Refsnyder broke up the no-no with a leadoff double.

Boyd’s performance comes on the heels of a no-hit bid taken into the seventh inning by 22-year-old Michael Fulmer on Wednesday in Anaheim. The emergence of the two young pitchers has manager Brad Ausmus feeling better about his starting rotation, especially the back end of it.

Unlike Fulmer’s outing Wednesday, Boyd’s fell victim to another …

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