(Photo: Ted S. Warren, Associated Press)
Seattle — You know all this talk about innings limits? Daniel Norris isn’t a fan.
“Oh, he’s a fighter,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said before Friday's game. “He doesn’t want to hear about innings or limits. And I like that. I’d rather have a guy come in and say, ‘I don’t need an innings limit. I’ve been pitching a long time. I’m finally feeling good, my body is feeling good.
“ ’I want to pitch.’ ”
That was apparently Norris’ message to Gardenhire and he backed it up, pitching six shutout innings before allowing a tying two-run home run in the seventh to Tom Murphy.