Tigers invitee Pill, back from Korea, seeks MLB shot

Lakeland, Fla. — He had to wonder what he’d gotten himself into.

Brett Pill, 32-year-old first baseman in camp as a non-roster invitee, spent the last three seasons tearing up the Korean professional league.

He went there in 2014 after playing parts of three seasons (hitting a home run in his first big league at-bat and getting a championship ring in 2012) with the Giants. So imagine his thoughts when, in his first week in Korea, he stepped into the batter’s box and suddenly a fan jumped the fence and started beating up the home-plate umpire.

“That was a little different,” he said. “It was right behind me. I had to help out, no one was helping to get him out of there.”

Then two weeks later, he…