DETROIT -- Chris Shelton remembers the game when it got a little crazy. It wasn't the two-homer games he put up in the Opening Week, or any of the American League-record nine home runs he hit in the first 13 games of the 2006 season. It was a two-triple game in Texas.
Long before playing for Jim Leyland, Shelton was taught to run the bases on doubles like he always had a chance to take third. Still, he hit 18 triples his entire 10-year pro career. On a warm Saturday night in Texas, after five homers in four games, he tripled twice.