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Timing is everything: Salty continues to be clutch
- Updated: August 30, 2016
DETROIT — The out-of-town scoreboard at Comerica Park, nestled inside the high wall in right-center field, looks so far away from home plate that it might actually be out of town. It’s where Alex Rodriguez once said he hit a ball as hard as he possibly could and had to settle for a double.
So, while Jarrod Saltalamacchia thought he had a go-ahead home run on contact with Nate Jones’ 97-mph eighth-inning fastball in Monday night’s 4-3 win over the White Sox, he watched the White Sox outfielders just to make sure. So did manager Brad Ausmus from the Tigers’ dugout, even further away.
“I thought it was out,” Ausmus said, “but the way [right fielder] Avisail Garcia was going after it, I was thinking, ‘Uh oh, maybe it’s not as far as I thought.'”
Saltalamacchia saw the same thing. The ball hung so high, for so long, against the Detroit skyline, there was little to do but watch Garcia and center fielder Adam Eaton.
“I saw the outfielders kind of meeting …
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