Minneapolis — There was a pleasant smell emanating from the back of the Tigers' clubhouse before the game.
Reliever Alex Lange was burning Palo Santo wood.
“Relieves stress,” Lange said. “Everybody seems pretty relaxed in here, don’t they?”
Apparently, Lange got the wood from rookie Beau Brieske. Palo Santo is native to South American regions, Peru and Ecuador and it is used as a natural remedy for stress, pain and inflammation.
Tarik Skubal joked the other night in Cleveland about burning sage to change the team’s fortunes, maybe the Palo Santo can do the same.