Has Kate Upton decided to stop playing the field for someone who, well, plays on the field?
Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander is the latest athlete to be linked to the Sports Illustrated bikini model after the pair was spotted at several Detroit hotspots over the past week.
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The 29-year-old baseball player and the model were reportedly hanging out together at last Thursday’s Aerosmith concert at the Palace of Auburn Hills along with Upton’s pal Lizzy Glynn and Verlander’s friend Frank Viola, Jr.
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According to the Huffington Post, the foursome moved their party to nearby Coyote Joe’s, a bar with a mechanical bull, after the show, where they apparently had a riot of a time.
Glynn, also a model, posted a photo of herself with Viola, happily writing that “he took off his pants so I could wear them to ride the mechanical bull. Yes, Southern gentlemen do exist!! @FrankViola3.”
A fellow patron at the bar told the Detroit Free Press that she spotted Verlander and his lady friend at the bar that night, though she didn’t immediately recognize Upton.
“She said ‘Happy Birthday,’ posed for a picture, and that was really it,” Amanda Waynick told the paper.
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Upton, Verlander and their pals later capped off the night with at Birmingham’s South Bar, locals tell the Huffington Post.
But Upton and Verlander’s reported dates didn’t stop there.
According to Fox News, 20-year-old Upton got her dance on in Verlander’s box at a Detroit Tigers game the next night, caught on camera doing her now infamous cat daddy dance and sipping from a plastic cup.
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A rep for the model denied reports that an underaged Upton was drinking alcohol, while a rep for the Tigers tells TMZ that “all patrons who appear to be under 30 years old are ID’d.”
The site reports that Upton’s rep refuses to comment on rumors that the model and Verlander are an item, however.
Upton was previously linked to New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, while Verlander has reportedly been dating his longtime girlfriend Emily Yuen since high school.
The pair appeared together in a TV spot for the new MLB 2012 video game earlier this year.
