SEATTLE -- Ian Krol has a love-hate relationship with his cutter that might well represent the Tigers' bullpen as a whole.
When he needed to make a pitch on Kyle Seager, having just missed the outside corner on a fastball to run the count full with a runner on first base in the 10th inning, he went to his cutter and threw one of his nastiest pitches of the season. It acted like an 89-mph slider, and it sent Seager flailing at it as he fell off the plate.