For Tigers' Casey Mize, sleight-of-hand glove work a double-edged play

Lakeland, Fla. – Casey Mize takes a lot of pride in his fielding. And it bothered him that in his previous outing he cost the Tigers a run when he deflected a ball away from his shortstop with a failed behind-the-back stab. Flash forward to Saturday. He ended the third inning with a no-look, behind-the-back stab of a ground ball hit by Enmanuel Valdez. First baseman Spencer Torkelson smiled and asked Mize if he wanted to keep the ball. Mize took it and put it in his back pocket. “I probably practice that more than AJ (Hinch) wants me to,” said Mize, who endured an uneven outing in the Tigers' 5-3 spring loss to the Pirates at Joker Marchant Stadium. “He was like, ‘It worked this time;...