If there’s any visible hint of the growing expectations and subsequent pressure, Michael Fulmer cleverly hides it. His emotions neither swing too high nor too low. His manager marvels at his poise.
“I don’t think his heart rate changes,” Brad Ausmus said.
It probably elevated a touch when he was in the trainer’s room in the ninth inning Sunday getting his customary poststart treatment on his pitching shoulder. He heard the audio of the Tigers television broadcast in the clubhouse calling Jarrod Saltalamaccia’s walk-off, two-run homer that gave the Tigers an important series victory over the Kansas City Royals at Comerica Park.