Never mind the ninth-inning rally and the late-game cheers from those that bothered to stay. Yeah, the Detroit Tigers made the score semi-respectable when they hung three runs on left-handed Seattle reliever, Caleb Ferguson.
Good for them.
Maybe it carries over to Game 4. The Tigers could sure use the juice after losing 8-4 and giving homefield advantage back to the Mariners, who lead the best-of-five ALDS matchup, 2-1.
For most of the night on Tuesday, Oct. 7, though, some of those same fans wanted to boo. A few even did, as uncomfortable as that feels when a team has made the playoffs twice in the last decade. This is a party, after all, or supposed to be, and no rain delay was going to ruin the Tigers' playoff home debut.
But then the rain stopped, and the tarp came off, and