Free Press sports writers Anthony Fenech and George Sipple give their thoughts on the first few games of the Detroti Tigers' 2018 season from Comerica Park.
They meet outside the Detroit Tigers' dugout.
“What are you going to throw?” Michael Fulmer asks.
“A fastball,” Kyle Van Houten says, sitting in a wheelchair. Van Houten, 18, of Hartland, started playing baseball when he was 8, right around the time he was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare genetic muscle disorder. He kept playing for two years in a rec league until the muscles in his legs began to waste away, and he became so weak he had a hard time getting up.