BOSTON - David Ortiz, say hello again to Phil Coke. The Tigers put Coke on their roster for the American League Championship Series with Boston, and the primary reason seems obvious: Ortiz, Boston's magnificent lefty-swinging cleanup hitter, is 2-for-18 lifetime off Coke. Ortiz is 3-for-4 lifetime - with a homer - off Drew Smyly. Smyly replaced the struggling Coke as the Tigers' No. 1 left-handed reliever this season. But in a game at Boston on Sept. 2, with the Tigers leading 3-0 in the eighth and Ortiz up with a man on base, manager Jim Leyland let rookie right-hander Bruce Rondon face Ortiz,...
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