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How Tigers' reliever Bryan Garcia got his groove, and mechanics, back

Pittsburgh — Some players can watch themselves on video and see precisely where their mechanics have gone off track. With other players, watching video is a waste of time. They have to feel it.

Tigers reliever Bryan Garcia is in the latter category.

“Everybody has a different pitching language in their brain,” he said. “With me, it was just give and take, give and take and then, bang, I finally started to feel comfortable.”

Garcia finished last season as the Tigers’ closer, but he never, not from the start of spring training and through a bout with COVID-19, found any traction this season.