DETROIT -- Comerica Park’s in-game entertainment crew has made an eighth-inning ritual out of Journey’s 1981 hit “Don’t Stop Believin’,” getting fans on their feet and singing. The rock anthem has always had a fun but odd relationship with this city because of its geographically awkward reference to a city boy from South Detroit.

There is no South Detroit. If there was, it would be across the river in Windsor, Ontario, as nearly any Tigers fan can tell you. But there is belief, in the city and the Tigers alike. The latter hasn’t stopped this week, but after a summer of celebrations at Comerica Park, it is being tested mightily the past few days.

An announced crowd of 34,267 showed up on a mid-September Thursday afternoon to enjoy summer’s last gasp in Michigan and cheer the Tigers on in

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