The clubhouse was painfully quiet.
The Detroit Tigers were in a funk after losing three straight games. They had endured a brutal stretch of nasty weather and late-night travel and had gone 22 innings without scoring a run.
Frustration was setting in.
Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire walked through the visiting clubhouse in Oriole Park at Camden Yards after the Tigers lost 6-0 to the Baltimore Orioles on April 27, and he gave a quick speech.
“All right, turn some music on, get a cold beer, we’ll get them tomorrow,” Gardenhire told his team, according to several players.