CLEVELAND — The pressure was like a heavy, wet blanket. Smothering an entire ballpark. Making it hard to breathe.

The Detroit Tigers ' season was on the line. Lose and go home.

Then, here came Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler, the Ohio kid, who changed everything, crushing a changeup, lifting the ball over the left-field fence, giving the Tigers the lead over the Cleveland Guardians. Once, the backup, a guy who was raised in football-loving Massillon, Ohio. Playing in front of a large group of friends and family in a must-win game. Keeping the season alive for the Tigers.

Dingler started his home-run trot, lifting his hand in the air in celebration and it was like all that pressure disappeared for the Tigers. It doesn’t matter how they got here. Doesn’t matter how hard it was, as they st

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