2012 ALDS: Oakland Athletics Looking for Revenge Against the Detroit Tigers

Ryan Cook, Sean Doolittle and Grant Balfour shut the door on the Texas Rangers in the seventh, eighth and ninth inning.

Metallica was blaring and over 12,000 walk-up tickets had been sold.

Not one day in first place in the past 161 games.

Eight outs away from a possible rematch with Detroit, one which ended badly during the 2006 playoffs for the Athletics. The aforementioned closing trio again shut the door in the faces of the Texas Rangers, who for the third time in three years have had to deal with some so...

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