Source: espn.go.com - Sunday, August 10, 2014 They call this time of the baseball season the dog days, a phrase that apparently goes back to ancient Greece when Sirius -- the "dog star" -- was closest to the sun and was believed to cause the intense heat of summer. And you thought John McGraw or Ty Cobb came up with it to describe why some tired opponent just got steamrolled. Anyway, what do you call a 19-inning game in the middle of the dog days? Well, that depends ... our Tigers blog, Walkoff Woodward, headlined its wrap-up "Tigers Waste Nearly Seven Hours Of Everyone's Life.All Related | More on Tigers
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