DETROIT -- Veteran reliever Paul Sewald put on his Detroit Tigers home whites and stepped onto a mound on Saturday for the first time since joining the team last month.

It was only a bullpen of about 20 pitches, but it represented the first step in his push to join the Tigers’ bullpen in September and, potentially, the playoffs.

Sewald said he felt great, though he will be closely monitoring how he feels on Sunday and Monday.

“It’s always about how you bounce back from these things,” he said. “My adrenaline obviously carried me through my first pen, and I was really excited. It’s about how you respond tomorrow and the next day, so then we can go at it again. Every few days I’ll try to get back out there. But I felt really good, really excited with how it went. No issues, but we’ll take

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