Detroit — Manager Ron Gardenhire was talking about the pitch Shane Greene threw to Jason Kipnis with two outs and a base open in the top of the ninth inning of a 1-1 game Friday night.
The pitch, on a 1-0 count, was a spinning slider over the middle of the plate that Kipnis walloped 410 feet into the seats in right-center field, giving the Cleveland Indians a 4-1 win and spoiling a break-through night for Tigers' ace Michael Fulmer.
"We can all sit there and say this and that, but it was a 1-0 count and the change-up or slider — I couldn't tell because the pitch didn't do anything," Gardenhire said.