West Palm Beach, Fla. — That blue and gold Venezuela baseball jersey, with all the colorful trim, looked awfully sharp on Eduardo Rodriguez.
But no better than he and his Tigers garb looked Sunday in his first start back from this month’s World Baseball Classic drama.
Rodriguez, a left-handed artist who pitches with power and with a certain elegance when all is right, was back with his regular employers Sunday, working 4.2 innings for the Tigers in what turned into a 2-1, walk-off victory for the Nationals at Ballpark of the Palm Beaches.