Riley Green suffered a large tear on Tuesday, but there was no damage to any ligaments in his body.
It hit his pants as he slid into home plate.
In the bottom of the ninth inning against the Pirates, a Tigers outfielder was coming home from second base looking to score, and as Green slid home, the seam of his pants tore, exposing the black compression clothing underneath his uniform.
Video by Johnny Cain of Bally Sports shows the Tigers jeering and hollering at the situation, with Green’s teammates back in the dugout laughing out loud at the wardrobe malfunction. .
“Are you kidding me?” someone can be heard saying in a short clip shared by X.
The Tigers rallied from a 3-1 deficit by scoring four runs in the 9th inning, winning the game 5-3 and starting the 2024 season with 7 wins and 4 losses.
The incident is sure to inflame those who have criticized the Nike-designed, Fanatics-manufactured uniforms that made headlines during spring training for the wrong reasons.
MLB officials are working to reduce complaints, and Commissioner Rob Manfred said he expects them to go away.
“In baseball, with any new initiative, there’s going to be some negative feedback,” Manfred said in February, according to the Associated Press. “First and foremost, these are Nike jerseys. So we entered into this partnership with Nike because of who Nike is and what products they use. Everything they’ve done for us so far has been completely, 100% successful across the board.
“Jerseys are different. They’re designed as performance wear, as opposed to traditional wear. So they’ll be different, but they’ve been tested more extensively than any jersey in any sport.”
