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Meet Tigers' Spencer Turnbull: His pitches are 'like a box of chocolates'

Free Press sports writer Anthony Fenech and New York Daily News' Kristie Ackert talk about the Tigers' 3-1 win on Tuesday night in the Bronx. Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press

NEW YORK — It’s funny, Jim Turnbull says.

People ask him all the time and they get the same look on their face when he answers.

When did he stop catching his son, Spencer? The one with the innate movement on his pitches that has befuddled batters all spring?

“I haven’t,” he says. “We still do that. It’s like, the last fun I got. It really is.