sentences:  On August 24, manager Mickey Cochrane tabbed Lawson to start for the Tigers against Lefty Grove and the Boston Red Sox.Lawson was at the time the best pitcher in the American League (his 2.70 ERA led the American League in 1935), and an account in the "Detroit Free Press" analogized Cochrane's decision to start Lawson against Grove and Boston to throwing a sacrificial lamb to the lions.The newspaper's game summary opened