Free Press' Anthony Fenech analyzes Tigers' 6-3 loss to Marlins, their 8th straight defeat, Daniel Norris' confidence and the 'pen, May 22, 2019. Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press
ATLANTA — You don’t need to caution Ron Gardenhire about the dangers of line drives flying into the stands.
Gardenhire coached third base for the Minnesota Twins for more than a decade. The majority of those games came inside the now-razed Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, where fans were afforded one of the most up close-and-personal looks in the Major Leagues — without protective netting.
“There would be people there, and they would would put their kid first, so they could see,” Gardenhire said, “And I would walk over there and say, ‘Please, sir, you need to sit in front of your kid so you can protect him.