DETROIT -- Harold Castro was at home in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday afternoon, eating a meal with his 4-year-old son, when his phone rang.
To say the message he received was unexpected wouldn't do it justice.
Castro fully expected that the next time he stepped on a baseball field would be for the Caracas Leones on Oct. 12, when they open their season in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.
But the Detroit Tigers needed an extra infielder for the final eight games of the season and decided to turn to Castro, a minor-league utility infielder who has spent the last eight seasons bouncing around the club's system.