Detroit — When your son is a professional baseball player and he FaceTimes you in the middle of his game — well, what the heck are you supposed to think?
“My mom answered with the most confused face ever,” Josh Lester said.
These are the stories that more than brighten the dullest, darkest Septembers for a team playing out the string.
Lester, 28 and slow-climbing through the Tigers’ system for seven seasons, got his first call to the big leagues in the top of the fourth inning Saturday night. He was with Triple-A Toledo, playing in Rochester, New York.