Tigers-Pirates, top of third

Not getting to Lakeland this spring for a Tigers game was a disappointment, but you can't do everything.
Tigers Hall of Fame right fielder Al Kaline was one of my favorite players as a kid. He remains the youngest player to win a batting title, hitting .340 to lead the American League in 1955 at age 20.
Which means he's 72 or 73, and I don't want to think about that.
Kaline had one of the all-time classic responses to a smart-mouthed fan years ago, at least according to how it was written in a Mickey Mantle biography.
Some kid in line for an autograph told Detroit's No. 6, "You're not half as good as Mickey Mantle." To which Kaline answered, "No one is half as good as Mickey Mantle."
Kaline, who got his 3,000th hit off Baltimore's Dave McNally in 1974, batted .379 in Detroit's 4-to-3 World Series victory against the Cardinals in 1968 with two home runs and eight RBIs.
Marcus Thames gets a run-scoring double when his drive to right deflects off Xavier Nady's glove. But Jose Bautista makes a pair of nice plays at third on the next two batters, limiting the Tigers to one run and a 5-1 hole.