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Candy crush: Tigers top Cardinals on walk-off homer

Detroit — It wasn’t pretty, but comeback wins don’t have to be.

And for a team with 83 losses in early September, any win is something to build on.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder — and the Tigers will take a win in any packaging it comes, especially during their celebratory weekend for the 50th anniversary of their 1968 World Series championship team.

The Tigers squandered an opportunity to move ahead in the seventh inning, but made amends in the ninth, taking a 5-3 victory on a walk-off home run by Jeimer Candelario in the ninth inning and stunning the St.