Baseball: Covering the Bases

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Posted by Tony Paul (The Detroit News) on Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:32 PM

Off to the Metro-doom ...

I've been trying all night to think of ways they can possibly sneak out of Minneapolis with a win Tuesday night, but the Tigers' history -- especially their recent history -- at the Metrodome is awfully tough to swallow.

Get this, folks: They're 30-61 this decade at the Twins' home park, 61-101 since the start of that tough-to-forget American League Championship Series in 1987 and 83-115 since the dome's doors opened in 1982.

Sure, there have been 83 different nights where the Tigers have put it all together at the Metrodome, but when they've needed to win the most -- that 1987 ALCS and two weeks ago -- they've fallen, and fallen hard.

That makes it darn near impossible to be any shade of confident come 5:07 Tuesday night.

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Mon. 10/05/09 08:25 AM

Thanks Tony

Did you not predict this possibility a few weeks ago? Kudos. I think Leyland read that article, and managed accordingly.

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