Editor's note: The following article appeared in the Friday, August 8 issue of the Detroit News. The article - Tigers Notebook - Sanchez is quite a Find - features a USD graduate working as a performance enhancement instructor. The article was written by Detroit News reporter Tom Gage.

In the notebook report, Gage has a subhead called helpful hints that features USD graduate Brian Peterson.

Detroit News - Helpful hints

Brian Peterson is the Tigers' performance enhancement instructor. He can't be called a sports psychologist because he doesn't have a doctorate in psychology. But he does have a masters degree in counseling psychology from The University of South Dakota, and the advice he gave Brandon Inge in Toledo proved helpful.

(Brandon Inge was the Tigers' starting catcher on opening day that was sent down to the minors earlier this summer. This past week, he was called up to the Tigers and played August 7 in Detroit's 3-2 win over Oakland).

It's advice that might help any baseball player at any level, however.

"We talked about staying current," said Peterson, who's been in professional baseball 22 years -- many as a minor-league pitching coach. "Keep in the present. What's happened is done. Pitch by pitch, at-bat by at-bat, game by game, week by week, that's over with.

"But if you stay current, there aren't any negatives in the current. You can only get negatives out of what's happened.

"For a lot of guys, it's human nature to dwell on the negative. It's like when you were a kid and took a test in school with 50 questions. If you missed three, which ones did you remember? It's kind of human nature to do that. But we don't have to. We can keep things positive."

Inge kept them positive on the field as well in his first game back. He went 1-for-4, threw out a runner in the first and made a good tag at the plate on the potential tying run in the eighth.