A lot of players use spring training to work out kinks before the stats start to matter on the scoreboard, but more importantly, to get back into baseball form.
The Detroit Tigers are hoping that everything that happened against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday afternoon is fully resolved and won’t occur again.
Nobody wants an inside-the-park home run to come from a routine fly ball, but that’s exactly what happened—at least according to the box score.
Before the regular season begins, even the official scorer needs some improvement.
With the exception of 30 games in his minor league career, Rays outfielder Kameron Misner was at the dish when he popped a ball sky high to the shallow area of center field. There was a convergence of four Tigers defenders on the ball.
But shortstop Andrew Navigato realized nobody was standing under the ball when he turned to face his teammates. He attempted running to make a diving play to save the out, but things continued to deteriorate.
