At long last, Christin Stewart arrived at Comerica Park.
He arrived Sunday morning, on a couple hours of sleep, after receiving the expected word from Triple-A Toledo manager Doug Mientkiewicz the night before.
But however expected it was — Stewart has been in the Detroit Tigers’ September plans all season — it didn’t make the message any less memorable.
“That was the goal of mine from the beginning of the year,” he said. “But you never really know what they’re thinking until they tell you those words: ‘You’re going to the big leagues.’ ”
And after sitting on the bench for the first 8½ innings of Sunday’s 5-2 loss to the St.