Tigers’ Lusader Ties Record With 3 Errors in an Inning

Right fielder Scott Lusader of the Detroit Tigers tied a major league record he would rather not have anything to do with Saturday at Detroit.

Lusader committed three errors during a seven-run first inning for the Chicago White Sox, who snapped the Tigers’ seven-game winning streak with a 13-3 victory.

Lusader, fighting the sun and a turf made soggy by overnight rains, became the eighth outfielder--the first in the American League since 1925--to make three errors in the same inning. On three separate plays, he dropped a fly ball, made a throw to the wall behind home plate and allowed a single to get by him.

“I’m not making excuses, I just butchered it,” said Lusader, whose misplays allowed one batter to reach second base, three runners to advance additional bases and one to score. “I really put our team in a big hole. I pretty much lost it for us in that first inning.”

White Sox Manager Jeff Torborg said: “The wind was blowing a gale, and I guess those balls got up in the air. I’m not making excuses for Lusader, but I guess he missed a couple of tough ones.”

The last Tiger outfielder to commit three errors in an inning was Hall of Fame member Harry Heilmann, who did it in 1914.