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10 hours ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

But an absolute dumpster fire of a bullpen and you can’t win in the playoffs without a bullpen. 

It’s not 1970s when pitchers routinely pitched into the late innings or (gasp) notched complete games. 

Well, that is the narrative, but Scherzer (7.1 IP, 5 ER) and Verlander (5 IP, 3 ER) didn’t pitch that well against us.   Price did (8 IP, 2 ER), but we outpitched him.  The Tigers bullpen let a game we already were winning get out of hand in the last two innings of Game 1, but we were likely to win that anyway.   They had no role in Game 3, pitching one scoreless inning in a 2-1 loss.   It’s really only Game 2 they lost, though Verlander didn’t have a good day either.   

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