Tampa Bay Rays at Detroit Tigers

Max Clark was still beating himself up for a fourth-inning miscue in center field as he prepared for a second at-bat against Rays lefty Ian Seymour an inning later. He didn’t care that Liam Hicks’ line drive had taken a strange enough hop that it changed direction and bounced behind him as he charged it. He expects to make that play. As Clark’s drive off Seymour’s hanging sweeper landed in Comerica Park’s right-field seats for a go-ahead two-run home run, his only concern was to complete his trip around the bases. He’d watched the ball for so long to see if it cleared the right-field fence that he didn’t realize he was still carrying his bat as he neared first base. “As soon as I saw \[Rays right fielder Jonny\