They could see it in his eyes.
The look was different, Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said recently. Defensive coordinator Matt Martin thought so, too.
"When he goes out there, he seems to have this look in his eye and body language that I'm going to get this guy out," Ausmus said. "This guy's not going to get a hit off me."
Maybe Rondon is fully healthy.
It takes time to recover from elbow ligament reconstruction surgery, which the right-handed reliever underwent at the outset of last season. For the first two months of this season, it looked as if he had yet to shake the consistency and command issues that come with the rehabilitation.