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'I like it hot': Tigers' Norris not sweating high temps for Saturday's start

(Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News)

Detroit — This weekend’s forecast in Metro Detroit features some of the highest temperatures the city will see all year. Mix in a little humidity, some rain showers here and there, and you have yourself some pretty miserable conditions for playing baseball.

While common sense would say that pitchers — who rely on gripping the baseball firmly to do their job — would be the biggest losers in the ordeal, Detroit’s projected starter for Saturday’s game, Daniel Norris, isn’t sweating it one bit.

“I’ll be fine,” Norris said before Friday’s game.