Those 1993 Tigers were a weird team. They only finished 85-77, 3rd place in the AL East, outscoring opponents 899-837.
Their early run differential was mostly due to some early season pummelings: they won 20-4 over Oakland in the 7th game of the season, then beat Seattle 20-3 in the 10th game. That's a sweet 40-7 run differential in 2 games. Without those two, their run differential on the season drops to 859-830.
But they weren't done-- in games 15 to 17, they slaughtered the Twins 12-4, 17-1, and 16-5. Combined with the other two blowouts, in those 5 games their run differential was 85-17. Without those 5 early season routs, they were actually outscored on the season 814-820.
They started 2-4, then won 11 out of 12.
They were 18 games over .500 at 43-25 on June 20, then 2 days later started a 10-game losing streak. They broke the streak with a 10-inning win over Texas, then lost 3 more in a row. They then won 6 out of 10, then lost 6 more in a row, part of a 10-29 stretch that wrecked their season.
Old guys Gibson, Whitaker and Trammel were still good hitters, Big Cecil hit 30 bombs and Mickey Tettleton hit 32. Travis Fryman had a 133 OPS+, and somehow Chad Kreuter had a 130, as did and supersub Tony Phillips. But Rob Deer was lousy and Milt Cuyler was worse, with a 59 OPS+.
Their pitching was bad, but benefitted from all the runs scored. Mike Moore and Bill Gullickson both went 13-9, but had ERAs of 5.22 and 5.37.
In June and July, they went 23-34 with an abysmal team ERA well over 5, allowing 82 HRs in 57 games.
Weird team having a weird season.