(Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News)
Detroit — This week's three-game series between the Tigers and Los Angeles Angels was supposed to be the second installment of Fox Sports Detroit's "players-only" experiment.
But FSD officials called an audible, and instead opted go go with the traditional broadcast booth, with play-by-play man Matt Shepard, for the remainder of the month and most of June.
The next "players-only" broadcast will come sometime in late June, and the format probably will be used as a one-off moving forward, and not for an entire series, as was the original plan — and as was the case when the format debuted for a Tigers-Cleveland Indians series in early April.