Getting your player ready...
Three days after Rafael Nadal was kissed by an intruder at the U.S. Open, there was an even stranger invader at Friday’s Tigers-Blue Jays game at Comerica Park — a 6-year-old boy. At the end of the seventh inning, as the Tigers were coming onto the field, the boy jumped out of the crowd and ran to the pitcher’s mound. He grabbed the ball that had been left for Tigers pitcher Brandon Lyon and raced back to the stands. The boy was allowed to keep the ball after his uncle told police the youngster had misunderstood his suggestion to go down to the railing and try to get a ball from the Toronto players. The AP
