Some have taken to calling it a curse, the Detroit Tigers’ amazingly consistent annual bullpen travails.
And we get it.
When you’re leading the mighty Boston Red Sox, 5-1, with two out in the bottom of the eighth inning, and you have your best reliever in the game, Joaquin Benoit, staring at a 2-0 series lead in the 2013 American League Championship Series before you’ve even played a home game, and then David Ortiz hits a grand slam that a younger Torii Hunter would’ve caught in his sleep, and you lose the game the next inning, and then you lose the series six days later, thus watching your best chance at a World Series title this generation go poof, well, yeah, you feel a tad snake-bitten.