Detroit Tigers rookie reliever Alex Lange didn't mean to do it.
"Obviously, I'm not trying to hit a guy in the ninth inning and down by one run after we just put five (runs)," Lange said after Monday's 8-7 loss to the Chicago White Sox at Comerica Park. "That's not any way to come into a game. There's no beef. It happens. It's baseball. ... It wasn't intentional."
Following a five-run eighth inning, cutting the deficit to one run, Tigers manager AJ Hinch called Lange out of the bullpen for the top of the ninth.