Detroit Tigers at Arizona Diamondbacks

With two outs in the eighth inning, the Diamondbacks had the tying run on third and the go-ahead run on second, and Tigers manager A.J. Hinch had seen enough from reliever Will Vest. So he went to the mound and called in his closer. As Kenley Jansen jogged in from the bullpen, Jose Fernandez went back to the Diamondbacks’ dugout to get a scouting report on the 38-year-old, who has pitched on the biggest stages in baseball over his 17-year career. Veterans James McCann and Carlos Santana approached the 22-year-old Fernandez to try to prepare him for what he was about to see. Jansen's money pitch, the one he has leaned heavily on to save 477 games – the most of any active pitcher – is a cut fastball. But it doesn't behave like a normal cutter, McCann explained to Fernandez. You have to treat it more like a four-seam fastball because it has more ride up in the zone. "First off, Kenley's one of the greatest closers of all time, right?" McCann said. "Two, he has a very unique cutter. So really it was just Carlos and \[me\