Detroit Tigers Photos from tonight..

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Anyone watch the postgame where they soaked the reporter?

 

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Yeah when interviewing The Big Potato? That was funny.

 

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Detroit can finally exhale

Tigers survive in the Bronx, edge Yankees 3-2 in tense ALDS finale
By Jerry Crasnick
Highlight Of The Night
Tigers hold on to knock out Yankees in Game 5
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Highlight Of The Night
Valverde Seals Tigers' Win
A-Rod Doesn't Get Job Done
An Empty Feeling
NEW YORK -- The Detroit Tigers earned the right to meet Texas for a pennant Thursday night, and they did it the hard way. On the heels of a blowout loss to the Yankees in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, the Tigers dragged their tired behinds back to the East Coast and took on a star-laden New York lineup and all that tradition in front of more than 50,000 hostile fans in the Bronx.

It's a baseball truism that you finish off the Yankees when you get a chance, or live to regret it. As a New York columnist memorably observed way back in the '40s, "When you give the Yankees a reprieve, they get up out of the chair and electrocute the warden."

But the Tigers, to a man, expressed no sense of remorse or misgiving over their failure to close out the Yankees at Comerica Park earlier this week. Maybe it was a byproduct of winning 38 of their last 54 regular-season games, or playing for a manager, Jim Leyland, who spent so much time joking around before Game 5, he made Joe Maddon look uptight.

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Jose Valverde closed out Game 5, retiring the Yankees in order on 11 pitches.
Heck, the Tigers weren't even fazed that Cy Young Award-winner-in-waiting Justin Verlander was unavailable, and their fate was in the hands of Seattle Mariners refugee Doug Fister.

"The way Doug has pitched, we had just as good a feeling as we would if Justin was on the mound," catcher Alex Avila said. "He's been lights-out. He's been as good as Justin has been lately."

Still, it all came down to one of those tense, classic finishes that have dominated the baseball landscape over the past three weeks. The heart of the New York order was coming up, and Detroit closer Jose Valverde jogged out of the bullpen with a TV cameraman tailing close behind and lumps rising in throats throughout the state of Michigan. This was the same Jose Valverde who saved 49 games in 49 opportunities during the regular season, but can be more harrowing than a Nancy Grace wardrobe malfunction on "Dancing with the Stars."

In this most unpredictable of postseasons, it ended in a flash. With his teammates pacing so much they were practically colliding in the dugout, Valverde set down Curtis Granderson on a fly ball to left field, Robinson Cano on a lineout to center and Alex Rodriguez on a swinging strike three to seal a 3-2 Detroit victory. All it took was 11 pitches, and the Tigers were dancing in the Yankee Stadium infield.

"Thank goodness Papa Grande didn't give us a heart attack today," outfielder Don Kelly said. "He'll surprise us every once in a while and make it easy."

Detroit may not be the mecca of the sporting world, but the city is having a pretty sweet autumn. Next week, Matthew Stafford, Calvin Johnson and the 4-0 Lions will take on the Chicago Bears at Ford Field on "Monday Night Football." Earlier in the day, the Tigers will hold a workout at Comerica Park before facing Texas in Game 3 of the ALCS.

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More great photo's from the timesunion.com photo bucket


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Fister!!!!!

 

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Jeters Fly-out in the eighth....Bye Bye Yanks