SEATTLE -- After Game 2 on Sunday night in Seattle, the Detroit Tigers will board a flight home. When they land on Monday morning, it will mark their first time in Michigan in more than two weeks.

And when they take the field Tuesday afternoon for Game 3 of the American League Division Series at Comerica Park, it will be their first home game since Sept. 21, a span of 17 days.

The memories of that last homestand aren’t especially rosy. The Tigers were booed as they left town after dropping all six games. Yet even amid that frustration, they departed Detroit in first place.

They soon lost back-to-back road series, barely sneaking into the postseason as the No. 6 seed and final Wild Card. But after the dramatic fall, the only thing that mattered was getting in -- and the Tigers managed to

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