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The Detroit Tigers have been the best story in baseball this season — a winning season after 12 years of losing, the return of Jim Leyland to the big-league managerial ranks, the upset of the mighty millionaires, aka the New York Yankees.

But if this Chicken Soup For The Motor City Soul is going to have a happy ending, the Tigers are going to have shore up their defense and find a way to generate more offense after losing Game 3 of the World Series 5-0 on Tuesday night.

"We're struggling right now," said Pudge Rodriguez, who spells "struggling" with 0 for the World Series and 0 for his last 23 postseason at-bats. "I know I'm struggling. What can I say? I have to come out (tonight) and try to wait for a good pitch to hit. I have to try to not put pressure on myself and just go out and try to have fun."

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The Tigers of August and September are back, which can mean only one thing: the Cardinals have taken charge of October.

The Cardinals used a simple but almost forgotten formula to take a 2-1 lead in the 2006 World Series on Tuesday night.

They played perfect National League baseball in a perfect National League ballpark.

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Even when Bob Gibson fanned 17 and shut them out in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series, the Tigers still got five hits.

Even when Dizzy Dean pitched on one day of rest and shut them out in Game 7 of the 1934 World Series, the Tigers still got six hits.

But when the Tigers faced the inheritor of the Gibson-Dean throne Tuesday night at new Busch Stadium, they got three hits.

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It should be an amazing game tonight.

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