Victor Martinez, the 39-year-old designated hitter, is retiring after the 2018 season. Free Press sports writer Ryan Ford takes a look at his career. Wochit
The story of the Detroit Tigers’ season was told simply and succinctly on Sunday afternoon by a longtime Comerica Park elevator attendant named Alma, who sighed and said, “We got so close. Then we lost.”
It has been so since Opening Day in April, when they scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie the Pirates before getting robbed of a victory an inning later and losing two innings after that.