#RallyGoose giving Tigers a lift

There’s some steam building for this #RallyGoose. If you missed it, the Angels-Tigers game Wednesday in Detroit was interrupted by a couple of rain delays. Then it was held up as a Canadian goose reached the playing field. After the grounds crew tried to shoo it away, the bird tried to fly out but crashed into a video scoreboard and then into the lower deck. Luckily, a veterinarian was a season ticketholder and rescued the goose, which was eventually released from the stadium unharmed. The moment became popular quickly, and, as things in sports on TV can do, went viral with the #RallyGoose. The term might have stuck after the Tigers scored five runs after the goose incident to win 6-1. Thursday morning, Tigers catcher James McCann posted a picture of what seemed to be a plas- tic goose perched on the floor in the clubhouse. Lo and behold, with a “new member” of the team in tow and perched on the railing of the dugout, the Tigers opened their first inning Thursday with five runs en route to a 6-2 win. This new mascot came against the Angels, which had a 2002 World Series run punctuated by the Rally Monkey.