BOSTON – A night in Fenway Park. Early June. The Detroit Tigers hold a one-run lead in the bottom of the eighth inning over the Red Sox. Right-hander Alex Wilson is pitching.
If you have been following this baseball team for any period of time, you could guess with relative ease what happened next.
A bloop base hit into right-centerfield. An errant pickoff throw. A hard-hit base hit to rightfield to tie the game. And then, two batters later, the knockout punch, the one like Detroiters hate to remember from four seasons ago in the American League Championship Series.