ARLINGTON, Texas – The Detroit Tigers sent themselves into the offseason with the kind of inning they’ll be thinking about all the way until spring training.
They needed four pitchers to get three outs. They allowed nine straight batters to reach base. They gave up a pair of two-run doubles to the same guy.
And all that came after blowing a chance to break the game open at the plate.
The Tigers set a miserable franchise record by allowing nine runs in the third inning and wound up allowing their most runs in any postseason game, too, in a 15-5 loss to the Texas Rangers that ended the AL championship series in six games on Saturday night.
“We just couldn’t stop the bleeding,” Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. “I’m sure some people are going to make fun of us now because of the way this game ended, so that hurts a little bit. I hope that doesn’t happen. But I can understand it if it does, because it was a great series, and this was just not a great game.”
For a franchise with a postseason history dating to 1907, those worst-evers really say something.
To have it come with the Tigers two wins from the
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