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Dream catch by Derek Hill highlights Tigers' first camp scrimmage

Detroit — Jeimer Candelario wasn’t coming off third base.

He’d hit a bending line drive over the head of center fielder Derek Hill Wednesday in the Tigers first intrasquad game of camp and he couldn’t get his mind around the fact that Hill, the former first-round pick, ran it down.

As Candelario stood his ground, Hill finally yelled in, “You gone.”

“I don’t care if he wanted to stay there, I was getting him off of there,” said Hill, regarded as possibly the best defensive center fielder in the Tigers' system. “Those catches don’t come along too often.