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It wasn't a criticism, just a pennant-race fact.

The Tigers can't live on one or two runs a game, which has been their recurring output.

"Not if we want to get to the promised land," manager Jim Leyland said after the Tigers' 6-2 victory Monday over the Seattle Mariners

They also need Magglio Ordonez to produce, but not think he has to do more than his share.

"We don't need him to carry us," Leyland said. "We just want Magglio to be Magglio."

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