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Chicago — Tyler Alexander kept waiting for the punch line.
Doug Mientkiewicz, Toledo Mud Hens manager, called him into the office after the game Monday night and told him he was going to make his next start Wednesday. Which he knew. But it would be in Chicago, with the Tigers, against the White Sox in the second game of a doubleheader.
Which he thought might be some cruel prank.
“I didn’t believe him,” said Alexander, a lefthander who has been grinding in the Tigers system since 2015. “I stood there for a while, like, ‘You serious?