Tampa, Fla. — He has a blue-ribbon arm and five-alarm spirit.
Sometimes they clash, the power and the fire, when Daniel Norris pitches.
The Tigers saw plenty of each Tuesday at Steinbrenner Field when Norris, the 23-year-old, left-handed prodigy who could be precious to Detroit’s 2017 rotation, had a bumpy Grapefruit League stint in a 9-5 loss to the Yankees.
Norris threw mostly fastballs that had James McCann’s catcher’s mitt popping like cannon fire. But the pitch count reached 40 with two gone in the second inning, and Norris was excused from what then was a scoreless game.