Brent played for the Caps in 2003.
MINNEAPOLIS -- You're a kid who just arrived from Double-A on Saturday night, you're playing at a position you've played just a handful of times this season, you're judging fly balls against a roof for the first time in your career, and you're facing a former Cy Young winner.
Welcome to the big leagues, Brent Clevlen.
"It's pretty exciting," Clevlen said. "I was surprised when they called me and told me I was coming up."
It's quite a surprise for someone who was hitting .224 at Erie. But with Alexis Gomez ineligible for recall at the moment, Clevlen already on the 40-man roster and the youngster having made an impression on Leyland in Spring Training, Clevlen found himself getting his first Major League exposure.
It didn't take him long to make an impression. He threw out Luis Castillo at the plate trying to score on a fly ball in the bottom of the first inning, then doubled down the left-field line in his first big-league at-bat off Johan Santana. He came around to score on Placido Polanco's ensuing single.
"It was good to get the first one out of the way," Clevlen said. "That was big."
A four-pitch walk in the sixth again set up Polanco for an RBI single, giving the youngster two of Detroit's four runs in a two-hit game.
Gonna have to get me down to Comerica one of these days.
BTW, the Cubs swept the first-place Cardinals in a four game series at Wrigley, making the Cards 0-10 in Chicago this year. Go figure.