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- Updated: September 13, 2016
DETROIT — Andrew Romine was going for home, he admitted, well before Tigers third-base coach Dave Clark waved him. The scoreboard dictated it. So did the season.
The Tigers have had their share of late-inning rallies on home runs recently. If they were going to rally Monday against the Twins, they might have to do it with their legs.
“We talked about it after it was all said and done, and we were both thinking the same thing,” Romine said after his seventh-inning run provided the jolt during a two-run rally in Detroit’s 4-2 win over Minnesota that pulled the club within one game of the Orioles for the second American League Wild Card spot. “We were thinking we have three hits off these guys. We haven’t had many chances to score.”
Romine was on first base, his one-out walk providing Detroit its first baserunner since the fourth. The Twins’ bullpen was at work, but the Tigers weren’t waiting for the big homer.
Two pitches after Romine walked, Jose Iglesias hit a line drive down the left-field line. Iglesias hesitated, thinking it might hook foul. Romine bolted at a speed to make Clark send him.
“I was going, pretty much not anticipating him stopping me,” Romine said. “I saw him wave me, which was a confirmation that, ‘Yeah, we’re going. We’ve got to. We may not really have another chance.’ So we were on the same …
