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What doomed the Tigers: 10 deflators

Detroit — We threw the question out on Twitter early Monday afternoon, while preparing to the write the obituary on the 2016 Tigers — a team with unquestionable mad talent, but also a maddening tendency to look awful for too many stretches.

If you could pick one game, out of the 161 played, that cost the Tigers a shot at a postseason ticket, which would it be?

The answers, as you can expect, included a wide variety of Francisco Rodriguez blown saves, and that’s fair. But too easy.

The question actually requires a bit more cognitive thinking.