After spending 313 days in the hospital waiting for a heart transplant, Alex Castonguay will finally experience his first Detroit Tigers playoff game in person when the team takes on the Seattle Mariners in Game 3 of the American League Division Series at Comerica Park.

"Me going to this first playoff game after having such an awful weird year means more to me than I think most people realize," he said. "If we end up going all the way this year, I will cry."

The 30-year-old lifelong Tigers fan has been a season ticket holder since 2022, but instead of witnessing last year's playoff run from the ballpark, he watched from a hospital room.

"I was born with hypoplastic left heart. I always knew at some point in my life I was going to need a heart transplant and that day came when I turned 2

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