Tigers' Jordan Zimmermann has 'successful' outing with Whitecaps

Buy PhotoComstock Park -- This seemed like old times, very old times, to Jordan Zimmermann.

He was pitching at a Single-A venue, Fifth Third Ballpark, home of the West Michigan Whitecaps, on a June night so still the American flag hung lifelessly at the top of a thick pole high beyond the center field fence.

There was a summer-loving crowd of a few thousand spread among the seats, even if summer officially doesn't show up for another week, which didn't matter. It was almost 80 degrees at game time and those who know Whitecaps crowds knew the weather, and Zimmermann's cameo as a West Michigan starter, was worth at least an extra thousand customers on a night attendance was, as usual, healthy:…