The first sign that Tyler Collins was having a rough night came in the previous inning, when he slammed his helmet upon striking out to end the Tigers’ big rally. Not all that unusual, but temperamental, which kind of fits Collins’ high-intensity nature.
Then Marcus Semien led off the top of the sixth and hit a fly ball to shallow center.
“It got up in those high skies, that dusk period,” Collins said after the game. “I’m looking around screaming ,‘I don’t see it.’ Nobody else sees it. It was unfortunate.”
Not as unfortunate as the reaction that followed.