October can be hard when your team is out of contention. For the 2018 Tigers, there was never much hope of a playoff dream, but the team has had a storied history of October baseball memories, which we can look back on to keep us warm on these chilly autumn nights.
This week, and October 14 specifically, are huge moments in Tigers lore, and for fans of the team, two major events will stick out from Octobers past.
Most recently, on October 14, 2006, only three years removed from their disastrous 2003 campaign, the Tigers hopes of returning to their first World Series since 1984 were made reality.