The Tigers were well on their way to the ALDS last year before a September collapse and an Alexi Casilla single ended their 2009 season and left them on the outside looking in, despite leading the AL Central race for much of the year.
No one took it harder than star Miguel Cabrera, who blamed himself for a deflating September. Cabrera was blasted after news spread that he was drunk between two key games in the race for the AL Central title, during which Cabrera went 0-8 and stranded 10 men on base. Things got even worse when it was revealed that he got into a drunken altercation with his wife that landed him in jail on the same night. Since that night, Cabrera has undergone and embraced treatment for alcoholism and is in Lakeland, FL with the Tigers preparing for the upcoming season.
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