Son, JaDid it! New Tiger makes mom proud

DETROIT — No, JaCoby Jones said before his Major League debut, his mom doesn’t get nervous watching him play.

“Oh, no. I don’t think so,” the Tigers’ ninth-ranked prospect said Tuesday. “I don’t know. Maybe tonight she will be, since it’s my first night in the big leagues. I don’t know. We’ll see.”

As Jones rounded first base in the sixth inning, his first Major League hit heading for the right-field corner as Justin Upton scored the go-ahead run in the Tigers’ 8-4 win over the White Sox, his mother was in tears.

When he reached second base, Jones pointed to his teammates in the dugout. Then he pointed to his parents in the stands as Bubba and Mary cheered him on.

“That was awesome,” Tigers starter Daniel Norris said. “It was cool to see his parents’ reaction up on the big screen. It was a special moment I’m sure he’ll never forget.”

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They were feeling elation. Jones was feeling something else.

“More relief, just getting it out of the way,” he said. “Something I’ll never forget, my first big league hit. It’s just something you work hard for, to get here, and to get it on the first night, it’s simply amazing.

“I don’t have any other words to describe it, just amazing.”

Less than 24 hours earlier, Jones was sitting in his hotel room in Indianapolis, having just finished a three-hit game for Triple-A Toledo, when …

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