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Detroit Tigers season had to end this way: Rain postpones doubleheader

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The beginning of the end of the Detroit Tigers’ 2019 season had to start this way, with rain falling onto a tarp at Guaranteed Rate Field for hours and rain for the foreseeable forecast in Chicago.

After hours of rain, with more in the forecast, the straight doubleheader between the Tigers and White Sox was postponed on Friday night.

Though the teams tried to fit an official game into a weather window that appeared before 5 p.