Detroit — Sometimes you wonder if that’s, in fact, a Tigers uniform JaCoby Jones is wearing.
He is jet-engine fast. His defensive range in the outfield might as well be measured in square miles. He makes moves on the bases that remind you of a Formula 1 driver’s dares.
He must play for a visiting team. This isn’t Detroit baseball.
Or, rather, it wasn’t, until 2018.
Jones slashed a leadoff triple to left-center leading off the Tigers’ half of the 12th, then scored on another bit of derring-do, a bunt John Hicks decided on his own to steer toward first base, as the Tigers beat the Rays, 3-2, all while a Wednesday afternoon Comerica Park crowd of 20,866 took in an event that was part-baseball game, part-carnival act by Jones.