DETROIT -- Former Tigers lefty Jamie Walker used to say every reliever gets five minutes of fame. Sometimes, maybe wrongly, a few of those minutes tick by in defeat. Blaine Hardy falls into that category.
When Mike Napoli's fly ball carried over Comerica Park's left-field fence in Sunday afternoon's 4-2 loss, it was a badly-needed insurance run for the Rangers to build a two-run lead toward taking three out of four from the Tigers. It was also the first time anybody had hit a ball over the fence off Hardy since June of last year.