Video of a Detroit Tigers food service employee spitting on a customer’s pizza at Comerica Park, has gone viral. The video first posted to Instagram showed the employee spitting on a pizza and then smoothing red sauce over the spittle, according to WXYZ-TV. The incident is said to have occurred on September 21 and as soon as the video went viral, Detroit Sportservice released a statement saying the employee was identified and that they take the accusation seriously. “As soon as we became aware through social media of potential food tampering Friday night, we immediately closed that food stand and disposed of all the product. Food safety is our top priority and we will take any appropriate action necessary to protect our guests,” the company said. The employee was identified as Jaylon Kerley. He was arrested and arraigned on Monday morning. Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.<doc-sep>The Telegraph Two of the surprise packages of this clay-court season have been British – initially Dan Evans, who made a deep run in Monte Carlo, and more lately Cameron Norrie, who played his second final in three weeks on Sunday. Unfortunately, Norrie wasn’t able to land a maiden ATP title in Lyon. But then he was up against Stefanos Tsitsipas, who has been the dominant force of 2021 outside the slams, and now stands at No 1 in the table of most rankings points gained since January 1. Nevertheless, it had been a hugely creditable effort for Norrie to go this far, especially when you consider that he took out top seed Dominic Thiem on Thursday, and then trounced big-hitting Russian Karen Khachanov in Saturday’s semi-final, losing only two games in the process. Norrie has come to clay late in his career, but it feels like this is developing into his favourite surface. He has one of the heaviest left-handed forehands in the game, loaded with top-spin, and uses it like a miniature version of Rafael Nadal. The result has been a tally of 14 wins and only four losses since he began his European clay-court swing in Barcelona. So while the French Open, which starts next Sunday, has traditionally been a graveyard of British hopes, there are reasons to hope that this year’s event could deliver some more positive results. Norrie’s previous final in Estoril had been a nervewracking affair which he eventually lost on a deciding-set tie-break to the more experienced Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas. Sunday was more straightforward for Tsitsipas, who needed only 69 minutes to hammer home a 6-3, 6-3 victory. It was Tsitsipas’ second title of the clay-court sequence, after he won Monte Carlo in mid-April, taking out Evans in the semi-final along the way. He has become a serious contender to upset the establishment – specifically Nadal and Novak Djokovic – at Roland Garros over the next few weeks. “I felt in good shape from the beginning of the tournament,” said Tsitsipas afterwards. “I am proud of today’s match, I knew it would be a difficult one against Cameron, who has been showing great tennis this week. He has been winning against good players and showing what the left hand can do on clay. “It was not an easy match today. I had to handle the nerves and I am proud of my performance and the way I stayed focused towards my goal.” On this year’s results, meanwhile, both Evans and Norrie stand among the world’s 20 most successful men. Evans is at No 16 and Norrie No 14. The next challenge for them both is to convert that ATP Tour form into a deep run at a major.<doc-sep>Jaylon Kerley has been charged with one felony and one misdemeanor count of food law violations. A Comerica Park food services employee who was filmed spitting on pizza dough while working at the stadium has been charged with one felony count of food law violations that is punishable by up to four years behind bars. The Wayne County prosecutor's office says the employee, Jaylon Kerley of Detroit, is also charged with a misdemeanor count of food law violations that's punishable by up to 90 days in jail. An arraignment is expected Tuesday. The filmer of the video, fellow food service employee Quinelle May, said the spitting was not an isolated incident and that Kerley had done it in the past. The video of the incident appears to have been taken off Instagram. Detroit Sportservice issued a statement on the pizza spitting on Saturday. "As soon as we became aware through social media of potential food tampering Friday night, we immediately closed that food stand and disposed of all the product," Detroit Sportservice said, per WXYZ. "Food safety is our top priority and we will take any appropriate action necessary to protect our guests." The Tigers are 63–93, sitting in third in the AL Central. The Associated Press contributed to this report.<doc-sep>Screenshot : WXYZ A food services employee at Comerica Park, where the Detroit Tigers attempt to play professional baseball, is reportedly in police custody after another employee posted a video on Instagram of him spitting on the beginnings of a pizza while working at a concession stand. Advertisement Quinelle May, who posted the video of the spitter on Saturday, told WXYZ in Detroit that “the worker was ‘mad and having a bad day’ and also claimed to have done it in the past.” May said that his managers got mad at him when he tried to show them the video, and he was threatened with prosecution if he didn’t take the Instagram post down. Detroit Sportservice, which runs the concessions at Comerica Park, denied the second part of his claim in a statement. Here’s the video, if you want to see a guy spit on pizza dough: Honestly, I always thought bodily fluids were Little Caesars’ secret ingredient.<doc-sep>
If you were at the Detroit Tigers game on Friday and ordered pizza, well, you might want to proceed with caution. Police have detained and charged a former Comerica Park employee who was seen spitting on a pizza while working at a stadium food stand on Friday. The man was fired Sunday, according to WWJ NewsRadio, but his damage was done over the weekend: He can clearly be seen spitting onto pizza dough before covering his saliva with sauce thanks to a viral Instagram video posted by his former coworker, Quinelle "Nell" May. As WILX News reported Tuesday, the suspected spitter has been identified as 20-year-old Jaylon Kerley, of Detroit. The Wayne County prosecutor's office, meanwhile, said Kerley has been charged with both a felony and misdemeanor count of food law violations -- sanctions that punishable by up to four years and 90 days in jail, respectively. May wrote in his Instagram post that he was told to leave his own shift at Comerica Park during Friday's Tigers game "because I didn't have on my Comerica Park shirt" and because he was "at the bathroom too long." That's why he decided to post the video, because "I couldn't wait until after the game to tell them an employee was spitting in customer pizzas." He also told Detroit's WXYZ-TV that he "went to the bathroom looking around to tell people about the video but couldn't find anybody" and that once he finally did encounter supervisors, he was shut down and "threatened with prosecution if he didn't take the post down." "Every time I tried to talk," he said, "they told me to shut up." As for why Kerley, his coworker at the time, spat in the pizzas, May said the man was just "mad and having a bad day." Nothing like spitting in someone else's food -- right in front of a camera, no less -- to let off a little steam, right? Detroit Sportservice, the stadium's food provider, has since released a statement about the incident, saying it "immediately closed that food stand and disposed of all the product" upon discovery of the saliva scare and that its "top priority" is food safety and "any appropriate action necessary to protect our guests." One woman, however, has come forward with the threat of pressing charges, telling WWJ NewsRadio that May is her old neighbor and "thinks he was trying to warn her not to eat the pizza." She apparently attended the Tigers game that night and is now concerned she may have been exposed to "any number of diseases."