They booed him when he came to bat. They booed him when he jogged to rightfield, and they booed him when he touched the ball on defense. But if the nasty reception from the announced crowd of 15,639 at Comerica Park bothered Gonzalez, he didn't show it. He doubled in a run in the first inning, walked on four pitches in the third, was safe on third baseman Jose Macias' error in the fourth, flied to centerfield in the sixth, and hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth. Fans boo good players, good athletes.
Nobody likes to get booed, but it's just part of the job.
We must have told him a dozen times last year to stay in the middle of the diamond with a runner on third and he didn't do it. He'd be waving at breaking balls. Tonight he took good approaches. Holt was making his first start at Comerica Park after beating the White Sox in Chicago last Friday. When the Tigers got Holt from the Astros last December, they hoped that pitching in a bigger ballpark than Enron Field would help him turn around an 8-16 record.