Houston – Awkward.
John Hicks' wife and his older brother Daniel watched the Tigers' improbable 6-3 win over the Astros Sunday along with Ben Verlander and his wife in Justin Verlander's suite at Minute Maid Park.
Things might've gotten a little quiet in there when John Hicks, who like Verlander is a product of Goochland High School in Virginia, blasted a hanging slider some 400 feet onto the mezzanine beyond left-center field in the second inning.
"They might've got kicked out after that," Hicks joked.
This was the first time Verlander has faced the Tigers since they traded him last Aug.